经营绩效反馈、环境不确定性与企业广告投入

基于2012～2015年深沪两市A股上市公司样本数据，对经营绩效反馈和企业广告投入之间的关系进行了理论分析和实证检验，并进一步考察了环境不确定性的调节作用。研究结果表明：（1）当企业未实现资本市场经营预期时，随着实际绩效低于经营预期程度的增大，企业广告投入将减少；（2）当企业实现资本市场经营预期时，随着实际绩效高于经营预期程度的增大，企业广告投入将增加；（3）当企业未实现资本市场经营预期时，与低不确定性环境相比，高不确定性环境中企业经营绩效负反馈对广告投入的负向影响将增强；（4）当企业实现资本市场经营预期时，与低不确定性环境相比，高不确定性环境中企经营绩效正反馈对企业广告投入的正向影响将增强。     

Food safety recall effects across meat products and regions

Food safety is one of the key issues for the international meat market. As a major meat exporter, few things facing the U.S. meat industry in recent years have garnered more attention than food safety events and policies. The impacts of Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS) recalls on United States consumer meat demand are estimated using monthly grocery-scanner data identifying effects across products, geographic regions, and recall type. Results suggest beef E. coli recalls significantly reduce the demand for recalled ground beef contemporaneously among most, but not all, regions in the United States. Evidence of heterogeneity in demand impacts across regions and products is provided for the first time. Domestic and international implications for policy makers, industry leaders, and researchers are discussed.     

Heterogeneous returns to chemical fertilizer at the intensive margins: Insights from Nepal

Increased fertilizer use is considered important for agricultural development in low-income countries. Promoting increased use of chemical fertilizer by lowering its price may be ineffective if demand is price inelastic. In theory, the price elasticity of demand depends on the returns to its use, but the evidence is scarce. Furthermore, while returns are often estimated for small changes in chemical fertilizer use, returns to larger changes in its use (intensive margins) are less understood. Through the inter-zonal comparisons in Nepal, we provide indicative evidence that greater returns to chemical fertilizer are associated with greater price elasticities of demand. Moreover, the evidence suggests that returns at the intensive margins, rather than returns to small changes, may largely account for inter-zonal differences in returns to chemical fertilizer within Nepal. The results suggest that better understanding the returns at the intensive margins is critical for effective agricultural inputs policies in developing countries.     

福利旅游的类型学分析及基于分类的运作模式研究

福利旅游作为一种促进社会公众,特别是弱势群体参与旅游活动的重要手段,在西方各国已经有了较好的实践。随着中国旅游业的发展,在追求旅游经济效益的同时,让公民更公平地参与到旅游活动中来,成为旅游发展中的重要任务。通过对国内外福利旅游理论和实践的分析,以类型学的方法,提出了福利旅游的分类框架。并在福利旅游实施者和受益者构成的分类框架下,探讨了福利旅游可能的运作模式,为如何在中国实施福利旅游提供了思路。     

So,you want to be an entrepreneur? Lessons from the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities

Based on helping dozens of military veterans refine their ideas for starting a business, we identify and discuss a series of potential pitfalls that aspiring entrepreneurs—veterans and civilians alike—must avoid in order to be successful. Potential entrepreneurs must not confuse the pursuit of hobbies and self-employment with the act of creating a business. People who wish to build a business around public speaking or consulting need to firmly establish why customers should be willing to pay for their advice. Individuals that seek to develop a new non-profit organization must have a viable value proposition even though they are not pursing a profit motive. Overall, the entrepreneurial ventures that are most likely to succeed are those that (1) are based on a sustainable business model, (2) leverage the entrepreneur's unique experiences and attributes, and (3) are built around a process or system that enables the venture to prosper even if the entrepreneur leaves the venture.     

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and B Corps

Sustainable entrepreneurship contributes to solving social and environmental problems through the means of successful for‐profit businesses. This paper contributes to understanding how sustainable entrepreneurship is implemented by exploring an emerging new form of business, ‘B Corps’, that employs market tactics to address social and environmental issues. Through interviewing 14 B Corps, the exploratory research study found that B Corps treat profit as a means to achieve positive societal ends, they regard the B Corp model as a tool for change, the B Corp model provides a common collective identity for internal and external validation, they are focused on societal impact rather than maximizing profits and they attempt to legitimate this form of sustainable entrepreneurship by influencing the business community and government officials. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

Reciprocal effect of tourist destinations on the strength of national tourism brands

The assignment of a brand to a product affects consumer's perceptions not only about the product, but also about the brand itself. The reciprocal effect of the product on its brand can be either positive or negative. Extending the concept of reciprocal effect to a new context, this study analyzed how consumer's perceptions about tourist destinations can affect the national tourism brand. An experiment showed that destinations leading to attitudes that are more positive than the average can strengthen the national tourism brand, while destinations leading to attitudes below the average can weaken it. Brand dilution can happen even when the outcome is effective from the destination's perspective. Because of the reciprocal effect, the determination of public policies in the destination level is usually inefficient from the country's perspective. These results reinforce the need for national brand governance.     

低碳经济下企业环境会计研究

以低碳经济为切入点,分析低碳经济下我国企业环境会计的现状和问题,探讨实施环境会计的必要性和我国企业环境会计核算面临的新问题,并在此基础上,阐述了低碳经济下实施企业环境会计的意义,提出完善我国企业环境会计的相关对策。     

基于生态位适宜度的区域创新生态系统与创新效率研究

由于区域内创新资源的有限性，区域创新生态系统中创新主体生态位之间的重叠程度对创新效率的影响愈发的显著，基于此本文运用生态位适宜度评价模型对我国30个省市 2011~2015 年的创新生态系统适宜度水平进行了测度，并分别与运用超效率数据包络分析法所测得的区域知识创新效率和产品创新效率进行了面板数据的回归分析。结果显示，区域创新生态系统的生态位适宜度对两个阶段的创新效率均具有正向的相关关系，但这种影响只具有短期的时间维度，并不存在两年及以上的相互作用。区域创新生态系统的对外开放会对产品创新阶段的创新效率产生负面影响，同时会促进知识创新阶段创新效率的提高。最后，在协调系统内部各生态位之间的发展关系时，应注重区域内经济发展水平对两个阶段创新效率的促进作用。     

The importance of firing costs and the Hosios condition in search models with endogenous job destruction

We construct a DSGE search model with endogenous job destruction, incorporating wage rigidities, firing costs and unemployment benefit. We investigate the most important factors in matching the model’s cyclical properties with empirical data, particularly those of job creation rates (JCR) and job destruction rates (JDR). Firing costs assist significantly in explaining the procyclicality of JCR, the negative correlation of JCR and JDR, and the persistence of vacancies. They also decrease the counter-cyclicality of job turnover. We also postulate that the Hosios condition helps explain the negative correlation of JCR and JDR and vacancies’ persistence. Varying wage rigidities and unemployment income, however, do not improve the results.