Strategic entry or strategic exit? International presence by emerging economy enterprises

By proposing an integrated strategic choice framework, we theorize the distinctive dynamics of international expansion by emerging economy enterprises. Specifically, we explicate how these firms build international presence based on combined strategic entry (i.e., prompted by internal capabilities such as innovation and diversification) and strategic exit (i.e., pushed out by external handicaps at home such as institutional obstacles and market competition). Further, a firm’s cooperative ties with foreign multinationals in the former’s home country fortify the strategic entry intent, while ties with home government institutions weaken the strategic exit intent. We also demonstrate that building international presence helps bolster firm performance, highlighting the economic catch-up consequence of international expansion. Analyses of a two-year imbalanced panel data of 2136 firms statistically support our hypotheses.     

农村信用体系建设的难点及解决途径 ——以德惠市农村信用体系建设情况为例

社会信用体系建设已经提升到国家战略层面.农村信用体系建设是社会信用体系建设的重要组成部分,人民银行作为社会信用体系的牵头单位,始终将农村信用体系建设作为重点工作来抓,目前已经取得了一些成果,但距离农村信用体系建设的要求和目标还有一定距离.农村信用体系建设过程中存在许多突出的矛盾,还需要我们研究解决.本文以德惠市农村信用体系建设的实践为基础,对农村信用体系建设提一些建设性建议.     

从报表看农村商业银行经营策略的变化——以某农村商业银行为例

农村信用社转制为农村商业银行后,资产负债表发生了根本性的变化,存放同业款项、存放系统内款项、交易性金融资产、可供出售金融资产等科目余额占总资产比例明显放大(本文将存放同业款项、存放系统内款项、交易性金融资产、买入返售金融资产、可供出售金融资产统称为投资性金融业务),而之前占绝对统治地位的各项贷款占比逐渐减少.本文以某农村商业银行基础报表为例,详细说明农村商业银行业务发展有"脱实向虚"趋势.     

Firm heterogeneity, productivity and spatially bounded knowledge externalities

In this paper, we argue that conceptually disentangling the ‘context versus composition’ aspects of regional growth is a multilevel issue. By applying multilevel models (also called random-effects models), we show (1) the importance of considering firm-specific characteristics simultaneously with region-specific characteristics, as we find that a large part of what is traditionally assigned to the impact of the region should be assigned to firm-specific characteristics and (2) that existing single-level methodologies can be problematic, as they are vulnerable to the charge of estimating significance levels that are too liberally assigned and promote exaggerations. This is illustrated empirically by showing that single-level approaches would lead to the conclusion that innovation spillovers are highly significant in a setting of Dutch urban growth differentials, while multilevel analyses shows less liberally assigned significance levels. We conclude that multilevel-effect models better fit research questions that combine firm and spatial characteristics simultaneously, especially because they allow firm-specific characteristics to be differently linked to their regional contexts.