Stockholding: Participation, location, and spillovers

This paper provides the first joint analysis of household stockholding participation, location among stockholding modes, and participation spillovers. Our model matches observed participation, conditional and unconditional, and asset location patterns. We find that financial sophistication correlates strongly only with direct stockholding and mutual fund participation, while social interactions mainly influence stockholding through retirement accounts. Whether retirement account owners include stocks in their accounts strongly depends on owner characteristics, which is not the case with mutual fund owners and investment in stock funds. Stockholding is more common among retirement account owners, but mainly because of owner characteristics rather than of any participation spillovers from retirement account ownership.     

中国-东盟自由贸易区建成后两地保险业发展与合作前景展望

中国-东盟自由贸易区为两地保险业的加快发展和深化合作提供了难得的历史机遇。本文在回顾中国和东盟保险业发展与合作历程的基础上,对自贸区建成后两地保险业未来的发展与合作前景进行了展望,并提出了进一步深化两地保险业合作的思路。     

电子支付服务中的关键概念及立法选择——兼评中美电子支付服务世贸组织争端案

电子资金划拨通常仅指以电子方式在金融机构账户之间进行的资金划拨,而电子支付泛指任何通过电子设备进行的支付,其法律内涵不太容易确定.支付服务是一个比较合适的概念,而为与《票据法》相对,建议我国采用“电子支付服务”.该概念应包括“经营”、“促进”和“促成”支付的所有必要服务,而支付“直接通过电子设备发出支付指令”进行.电子支付服务世贸组织争端案中,我国败诉的原因在于支付卡信息转接市场垄断,而非专家组解释不当.     

公共服务战略管理中的公众参与：原因、机制与意义

公共服务战略管理是战略管理途径在公共服务领域的运用,是制定公共服务战略并实施和评价战略的过程,以此更好地满足公共需求。公众是公共服务最直接的受众,应该把公众纳入公共服务战略管理的研究框架之中。同时,适当的公众参与对公共服务的有效供给及公共服务战略绩效的提高有着十分重要的作用。     

Model Uncertainty, Limited Market Participation, and Asset Prices

We demonstrate that limited participation can arise endogenouslyin the presence of model uncertainty and heterogeneous uncertainty-averseinvestors. When uncertainty dispersion among investors is small,full participation prevails in equilibrium. Equity premium isrelated to the average uncertainty among investors and a conglomeratetrades at a price equal to the sum of its single-segment components.When uncertainty dispersion is large, investors with high uncertaintychoose not to participate in the stock market, resulting inlimited market participation. When limited participation occurs,participation rate and equity premium can decrease in uncertaintydispersion and a conglomerate trades at a discount.     

Infrequent Housing Adjustment,Limited Participation,and Monetary Policy

This paper asks why monetary contractions have strong effects on the housing market. The paper presents a model with staggered housing adjustment in which monetary policy has real effects in the absence of any rigidity in producer pricing or wages. Limited participation in financial markets leads to a rise in the real mortgage rate following an increase in the nominal short rate. Since households must take on a mortgage to consume housing, the rise in the real interest rate reduces the share of residential investment in output.     

Participation and purpose: Boilermakers to bankers

This paper focuses upon two divergent examples of employee participation in the 1980s in Britain. In contrasting the experiences of participation in the Co-op bank and shipbuilding group the paper seeks to question the characterization of employee involvement as either a neutral but progressive “tool” of management or a strategy for total control through diminuation of trade union power at work. Rather it is suggested that the meaning of participation at work will vary with the context both in terms of the objective form of the labour process, e.g. manual, non-manual, etc., and it will also depend upon the meta-contexts of wider social structures. A parallel is drawn between the forms of rationality implied in the practice of employee participation and that of management accounting where in both cases the “neutrality” of the practice is invalidated once placed with in the real terrain of social relationships at work and within wider society.     

合伙人结算分配产生纠纷之后

本案当事双方与其他二人合伙承包一煤矿,并依法取得了经营权。承包满一年,一方与煤矿所有者和另一公司签订了“一揽子协议书”,终止了承包经营。煤矿所有者同意支付给合伙人2800万元人民币,作为他们在煤矿经营期间的投入及解除承包关系的补偿。在协议生效后,煤矿所有者偿付了1600万元,余款尚未到位,于是引发了一场纠纷     

银行员工退休工资与银行贷款抵销纠纷及启示

正基本案情原告张某系被告A银行的退休职工,2000年退休后,一直按单位发的工资存折领取退休工资维持生活。原告2007年每月工资为人民币1606元。从2007年9～12月,被告无故扣发原告每月退休工资438.37元,共计1753.48元。原告发现自     

Antecedents of Budget Participation: Leadership Style,Information Asymmetry,and Evaluative Use of Budget

This study explores the causes or antecedents of budget participation to understand more fully the role of participation in the workplace. The study focuses on the reasons why superiors encourage the budget participation of their subordinates and draws upon several theoretical perspectives including leadership theory, agency theory and organizational justice. To examine the issues, a survey was administered to managers and supervisors in several companies. Results of path analysis suggest that superiors encourage subordinate participation when the superior's leadership style is considerate. This implies that budget participation may mediate the relation between leadership style and work outcomes. Results also suggest that superiors encourage participation when budget goals are used in the performance evaluation of subordinates, in which case, the study argues, the superiors encourage participation because of concerns about organizational justice. This finding implies that budget participation may mediate the relation between the evaluative use of budget and those work outcomes that prior research has linked to organizational justice. The proposed relation between information asymmetry and budget participation is not supported.     

外资参与、融资约束与企业生存——来自中国微观企业的证据

生存问题是企业面临的头等重要大事。本文采用1999-2007年期间新成立的非国有企业样本数据刻画了中国企业的生存时间。数据显示非外资参与企业相对于外资参与企业具有较低的生存率。通过使用COX比例风险回归模型发现外资参与确实可以有效缓解企业的融资约束,从而降低企业的失败风险。相比利用外资带来融资约束缓解效应而言,加快金融市场改革、消除基于所有制性质的信贷歧视才是真正缓解民营企业融资约束,进而提升中国企业竞争力的切实有效的路径。     

Self-contained regime and the meaning of lex specialis rule on the example of Draft Articles on Responsibility of States of UN International Law Commission and the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) within the law of World Trade Organization (WTO)-selected issues

The aim of this article is a presentation of the selected issues concerning the conception and contemporary perception of the legal order dealing with self-contained regime and the significance of the ...     

Participation costs, trend chasing, and volatility of stock prices

We analyze an overlapping generations model with fixed costsof stock market participation. Participation in the stock marketis determined endogenously and covaries positively with precedinginnovations in dividends. The equilibrium share price is positivelyrelated to market participation of the same period and to informationabout future dividends. There is 'rational trend chasing' inthe sense that, although all agents are rational, market participationrises after an increase of the share price and falls after adecrease. Finally, we show that the endogenous fluctuationsof market participation lead to increased volatility of theshare price.     

跨境贸易人民币结算的突破、影响与前景

本文在回顾跨境人民币业务发展情况的基础上,分析了跨境贸易人民币结算试点取得的突破及其影响,对跨境人民币业务的前景进行了展望,并提出相关建议。分析表明,本次试点虽然重点是贸易结算,但其范围远超"贸易结算",是对原有管理的重大突破,对跨境人民币业务和境外人民币业务都将产生重大的影响。为使试点能够对人民币国际化产生更大的推动作用,未来应适时扩大试点和放宽限制。     

数字普惠、城乡差异和家庭金融参与

数字技术渗透在居民生活之中,影响着家庭的行为和经济决策。基于现有研究成果和技术接受理论模型,本文探讨数字技术对金融参与的影响机制,运用2016年中国家庭动态跟踪调查(CFPS)的微观统计数据,对城乡家庭的金融参与进行实证研究。Logit模型结果表明:数字技术有效提升了家庭购买金融产品的概率和金额,如果城乡同时实现数字普惠,农村家庭购买金融产品的概率远高于城镇家庭,但由于资产、收入等因素的限制,其购买金融产品的金额相对较低。     

Participation in budgeting: A critical anthropological approach

Accounting researchers adopting structural and post-structural interpretive approaches have long criticized mainstream assumptions about the enduring economic aspects of accounting systems, highlighting their roles in reflecting and shaping social realities that are contradictory, diverse, and changing. The paper aims to develop this critique by inquiring empirically and philosophically into the roles that constructing participation in budgeting might play in enhancing ‘ontological plurality’, that is, supporting actors’ perspectives, abilities and concerns which are generally excluded by structuring action to maximize private profits. It defines and elaborates a critical anthropological approach using Marx’s notion of ‘social praxis’ and Latour’s idea of ‘modes of existence’ to highlight the theoretical contribution of anthropologists exploring beyond traditional divides over social agency through studies of grassroots participative responses to contemporary socio-economic crises. Drawing on ethnographic data collected through a multiple site case study of eight worker cooperatives in Argentina, the paper analyses how reciprocal relations between the actors’ levels of agency in wider associative actions, and their degrees of participation in budgeting, caused gradual expansions in ontological plurality, moving the actors beyond their particular tensions and broader structural conflicts. Exploring the notion of ‘ontological movements’, the paper develops a continuum of participation and ontological pluralism in budgeting, which it argues contributes to the structural and post-structural interpretive accounting literatures through historical, constructive, and participative components.     

Free Cash Flow,Issuance Costs,and Stock Prices

We develop a dynamic model of a firm facing agency costs of free cash flow and external financing costs, and derive an explicit solution for the firm's optimal balance sheet dynamics. Financial frictions affect issuance and dividend policies, the value of cash holdings, and the dynamics of stock prices. The model predicts that the marginal value of cash varies negatively with the stock price, and positively with the volatility of the stock price. This yields novel insights on the asymmetric volatility phenomenon, on risk management policies, and on how business cycles and agency costs affect the volatility of stock returns.