外包与生产率和就业:基于中国的实证

文章使用1997、2002和2007年的42部门投入产出表数据,计算了我国22个工业行业的外包比率,并以面板数据模型检验了外包对工业行业劳动力就业及外包对工业行业产出的影响。检验结果表明,材料品外包、服务外包的发展均有效地提升了我国工业行业生产率水平,但服务外包对工业行业生产率的促进效应要远远大于材料品外包,而外包对工业行业就业影响的分析结果是,服务外包对工业行业就业的影响为正效应并且影响显著,材料品外包对于工业行业就业的效应则效果不明显。     

外包对中国能源利用效率影响的实证研究

本文基于我国33个工业行业1992-2006年的面板数据,采用PCSE稳健估计方法发现外包显著提高了我国的能源利用效率,同时技术进步、产权结构、要素禀赋结构和产业结构等也对能源利用效率产生不同的影响。本文的分析对于理解我国的经济发展、能源安全和产业升级具有启发意义。     

Ethical Issues in Outsourcing: The Case of Contract Medical Research and the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

The outsourcing of medical research has become a strategic imperative in the global pharmaceutical industry. Spurred by the challenges of competition, the need for speed in drug development, and increasing domestic costs, pharmaceutical companies across the globe continue to outsource critical parts of their value chain activities, namely contract clinical research and drug testing, to sponsors across the globe, typically into emerging markets. While it is clear that important ethical issues arise with this practice, unraveling moral responsibility and the allocation of responsibility is not so clear, considering that contracts, by their very definition transfer responsibility from the principal to the agent. This research provides a framework for exploring some of the ethical issues, including attributions of moral responsibility associated with Contract Medical Research. Using a theory of strategic and moral behavior, the research shows that both clients and sponsors in contract research have individual and collective responsibility to ensure that due care and diligence is exercised in the performance of clinical research. The research suggests some guidelines for stakeholder action.     

关于服务外包的价值链研究

服务外包成为继制造外包的另一个研究热点,然而目前适用于服务外包的理论却很少。全球价值链理论是研究制造外包的理论工具,鉴于制造外包与服务外包的差异,全球价值链理论并不能照搬到服务外包领域。本文在借鉴该理论的基础上,提出了服务外包价值链的构想,构建了服务外包价值链的治理、驱动机制和升级等一些重要分析工具,以期推动服务外包的理论研究。     

Liability of Foreignness in Fast-Expanding Markets: Evidence from Ghana

In this study, we sought to establish if the idea of liability of foreignness (LOF) also persists in the fast-expanding markets (FEMs) and whether there are certain firm characteristics that can mitigate or accentuate this effect. We utilize data from the World Bank enterprise surveys conducted in Ghana in 2007 and 2013. We operationalize liability as the probability that a firm suffered from a crime in the year under study. We also specify empirical probit and instrumental probit models with controls to answer the above research question. We find that there is LOF in fast-expanding markets, and this effect is robust to different specifications. Given that our liability is crime, we moderate the LOF effect with data on security expenditure. The results still show that even if firms increased their security expenditure, the LOF effect still persisted. The study makes a contribution to the international business literature by testing the LOF effect in a new unit of analysis and is also one of the earliest to operationalize a firm's liability in the form of crime it suffers in its operating environment. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Doing Business in Global Markets:

A frequently overlooked component of succesful international trade involves the efficient distribution of products. The present paper looked at international freight forwarder perceptions of the easiest and most difficult countries for arranging international freight operations. The forwarders overwhelmingly indicated that Great Britain was the easiest country for arranging international freight operations, which China emerged as the most difficult. Study results could be helpful both as competitive benchmarks and in formulating public policy.     

家族涉入对企业外包决策的影响:来自中国制造业的经验证据

文章利用重庆和浙江两地制造业民营企业的问卷调查数据,实证检验家族涉入与企业外包倾向之间的关系,分析结果表明:第一,现阶段中国家族企业外包倾向强于非家族企业;第二,家族管理权、领导企业的家族代数与家族企业外包倾向之间有显著的正向关系,家族或泛家族信任与家族企业外包倾向之间有显著的负向关系.研究结论对我国家族企业成长实践具有重要指导意义.     

Trader Survival: Evidence from the Energy Futures Markets

This study analyzes the adaptation of traders and the determinants of trader survival during a period of changing market structures. Our unique sample of transactions level data covers the introduction of electronic trading in the NYMEX energy futures market. The results show that most floor traders adapted to the side‐by‐side electronic and open outcry trading, although trader attrition increased and the profitability of surviving traders declined dramatically. It is also found that trading profits, trader experience and sophistication, and dual trading have a positive effect on the probability of trader survival. Scalpers are less likely to exit trading in pure open outcry trading, but are more likely to fail than traders who hold open positions longer in side‐by‐side trading. Finally, traders trading in multiple energy futures markets and those who use both the exchange floor and electronic trading appear to have a survival advantage in side‐by‐side trading. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 32:809–836, 2012     

Banks' Efficiency and Stock Prices in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Malaysia

ABSTRACT

This paper empirically investigates the X-efficiency and P-efficiencies of Malaysian banks listed in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) during 2002–2003 by applying a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. We find that during the period of study, the X-efficiency of Malaysian listed banks was on average significantly higher compared to the P-efficiencies. The P-inefficiency was largely due to inefficient production of profits rather than the wrong scale of operations. Our results also suggest that the large banking groups were on average more X-efficient whereas the smaller banking groups were found to be more P-efficient. We further link the X-efficiency and P-efficiency to the respective banks' share prices and find that the stock prices of Malaysian banks react more towards the improvements in P-efficiency rather than the improvements in X-efficiency.     

Disappearing and Reappearing Dividends in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Indian Companies

This article examines the empirical determinants of dividend payout policy for 947 sample firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India from 1995 to 2013. The author identifies three distinct trends in the propensity to pay dividends between 1995 and 2013. The regression analysis suggests that most of the decline is due to the dividend payout policies of smaller, less profitable, younger firms and firms with comparatively more investment opportunities, high financial leverage, high business risk, and high dividend distribution tax. The author finds significant positive impact of catering incentives on the propensity to pay dividends, thus supporting catering theory of dividends.     

CSR Performance in Emerging Markets Evidence from Mexico

Although interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in emerging markets has increased in recent years, most research still focuses on developed countries. The scant literature on the topic, which traditionally suggested that CSR was relatively underdeveloped in emerging markets, has recently explored the context specificity, suggesting that it is different and reflects the specific social and political background. This would particularly apply to local companies, not so much to foreign subsidiaries of multinationals active in emerging markets. Thus far, empirical research that systematically documents a range of CSR activities of local companies and their performance has been scarce. This paper reports the results of a survey conducted among companies in the Mexican auto industry. CSR performance was investigated across three dimensions: environmental, labor, and community, using measures from existing research and global, ‘Western’ standards of practice, to identify the type of CSR activities and the level of CSR performance that exists, if at all, in the emerging-market context. Results show that local companies do engage in the type of CSR activities commonly associated with CSR in developed countries. To the extent that comparisons could be made, our findings also indicate that CSR activities and levels among the sample are comparable to what is known about CSR in developed-country settings. Moreover, six of the nine CSR dimensions are intercorrelated, which suggests that CSR in the Mexican auto parts industry is more structural than incidental.     

异质信念与股票收益——基于我国股票市场的实证研究

本文以经调整后的换手率和收益波动率作为投资者异质信念的代理指标,采用1997—2007年间的样本数据,分别运用资产组合分析法和截面收益回归法,直接验证在我国股票市场上投资者异质信念对股票收益的影响。本文的研究发现支持了基于异质信念假设的资产定价理论:在卖空限制约束下,异质信念导致当期股价高估,与股票未来收益负相关。文章的结论经FF四因素模型调整后依然成立。本文还发现,与美国股票市场相比,我国股票市场高估程度更严重,持续时间更长。因此,引入卖空机制可以在一定程度上解决我国股票市场高估问题。     

国内价值链、双重外包与区域经济协调发展:来自长江经济带的证据

针对当前中国面临区域经济增长差距逐步扩大的问题,本文利用上海作为基准点,将国际商品贸易、国际服务贸易、投入产出表和统计年鉴进行匹配,测度了长江经济带省级细分行业的离岸外包和在岸外包,并在此基础上分析双重外包对区域经济协调发展的影响.实证结果显示:第一,离岸外包具有效率性特征,每增加1％会导致区域经济协调发展水平差距拉大0.074％;在岸外包具有公平性特征,每增加1％会促进区域经济协调发展水平提升0.0726％.第二,服务外包是促进区域经济协调发展的重要手段,无论是离岸服务外包还是在岸服务外包都可以显著促进区域经济协调发展.第三,离岸外包和在岸外包具有典型的梯度特征,随着样本向内陆地区延伸,双重外包的作用强度在不断减弱.稳健性检验表明,实证结论不会随时间和空间的改变而变化.本文的研究表明,逆全球化格局下构建国内价值链、发展在岸外包和服务外包是实现区域经济协调发展的有效手段.     

Offshoring and Outsourcing Potentials: Evidence from German Micro‐Level Data

This paper provides two indicators that measure: (i) offshoring potentials (cross‐country geographical relocation) and (ii) outsourcing potentials (organisational relocation) separately at the level of jobs, occupations, tasks and industries. We use four waves of the BIBB/BAuA Labour Force Survey in Germany and apply principal component analysis based on a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing derived from the literature. Our results show significant variation across these levels in the determinants of both dimensions. We provide a comprehensive empirical classification of the determinants of how easily jobs can be offshored and outsourced. This can serve as a basis for further research to investigate the economic effects of job offshoreability.     

跨国外包对接包方技术创新能力的影响研究

文章借鉴Antraes(2005)中间品选择模型,结合跨国公司国际化生产的动态特征构建南北方国家之间中间品生产合作的模型,从北方国家技术转移与接包方技术吸收能力建设两个视角探索接包方发展创新能力的因素,提出外包项目动态升级情境下接包方获得的创新激励效应。在此基础上,论文通过回归分析模型检验外包生产对当地创新能力的影响,结论表明,各地承接外包的出口对当地创新活动有显著的正效应。     

Supramonopoly: Theory and Evidence from the US Air Passenger Service Markets

A supramonopoly is the market structure of a homogeneous good that is priced higher than the monopoly level. We present evidence of supramonopoly in the US air passenger service. For four airline mergers during the period of 1993 to 2009, we identify routes that dropped fares for no other reason than the increase in market power due to merger. Therefore each of those routes had fare higher than the monopoly level before the merger to monopoly. We explain supramonopoly as the result of a cartel with strongly punitive matching rules. We also discuss the striking implications for antitrust and regulatory policies.     

The Decision to Enter and Exit Foreign Markets: Evidence from U.K. SMEs

This paper studies the dynamics of the export behaviour of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. between 1994 and 1998. I use a dynamic empirical model to disentangle three distinct dimensions of a firms’ participation in foreign markets: sunk cost induced hysteresis, firm heterogeneity and macroeconomic instability. The results show that SMEs view exporting as an irreversible investment, with state dependence being the largest explanatory factor. Moreover, observable firm characteristics, such as size and ownership, play a significant role in distinguishing exporters from non-exporters. Finally, there is no evidence that the 1992–1993 recession influenced firms’ export decisions in subsequent years implying that the results provide a valid indication of SMEs "typical" export behaviour.