美日企业人力资源管理模式的启示

周其仁教授曾经说过，“为什么土地、自然资源、厂房设备、银行贷款都无须激励，单单人力因素就非谈激励不可?道理就在于人力资本的产权特性。一方面，人力资产天然归属个人；另一方面，人力资本的产权权利一旦受损，其资产可以立刻贬值或荡然无存。……个人是人力资本的具有技术不可分性的所有和控制……激励机制的普遍性是因为人力资本的利用在经济生活中无处不在，而在现代经济中，人力资本的开发利用日益居于中心地位。”     

Hotel management contracts in the U.S.: The revolution continues

The relationship of owner and operator embodied in a hotel management contract endures despite changes in contract lengths and provisions, alterations in relative bargaining power, and the addition of such interested parties as bankers and asset managers.     

国际贸易风险规避策略探讨

随着我国经济的快速发展,越来越多的国内企业与国际市场接轨,但机会与挑战并存,在国际贸易中还存在不少风险.文章剖析了我国企业面临的主要国际贸易风险,并从五个方面探讨了国际贸易风险的规避策略.     

国际贸易风险规避策略探讨

随着我国经济的快速发展,越来越多的国内企业与国际市场接轨,但机会与挑战并存,在国际贸易中还存在不少风险.文章剖析了我国企业面临的主要国际贸易风险,并从五个方面探讨了国际贸易风险的规避策略.     

Comparison of selective hedging and options strategies in cattle feedlot risk management

A cattle feedlot marketing simulation model was developed and used to evaluate the performance of various feedlot marketing strategies. The marketing analysis included corn, feeder cattle, and fed cattle integrated marketing alternatives. A variety of strategies were compared including hedging and put option purchasing as signaled via profit margins or price forecasts. The results indicate that cattle feeders could have historically increased profitability and decreased the variability of profits through selective marketing by using either profit margins or price forecasts to signal market positions as compared to cash marketing strategies. In addition, several strategies were found that stochastically dominated cash marketing.     

Volatility and shock interactions and risk management implications: Evidence from the U.S. and frontier markets

The study affords comprehensive evidence of shock and volatility interactions between stock markets of each of the twenty four frontier markets and the U.S. for the period 2006:01 to 2015:07. The results from the recent EDCC-GARCH model of Nakatani and Teräsvirta (2009), which permits for concurrent estimation of shock and volatility interactions as well as dynamic conditional correlations (DCC) across assets, shows unidirectional shock and volatility transmissions from the U.S. to the frontier markets. The conditional correlation between the U.S. and each frontier market is very low or negative, offering diversification benefits to U.S. investors. The DCC exhibits slow decay and is insignificantly impacted by previous period's shocks. The results are very intuitive for optimal portfolio allocations using the traditional capital-based as well as the risk-based allocations. The risk parity approach to portfolio management increases (reduces) allocations to lower (higher) risk assets to improve portfolio diversification while increasing the risk-adjusted returns.     

论美国国会与对外贸易法的制定与执行

在美国三权分立政体下,对外贸易法律的制定和执行是国会、总统交互作用的复杂过程。国会一方面通过授权总统扩大自由贸易;另一方面又建立完善的进口救济制度来平衡贸易保护主义的利益。国会还把相当的权力委托给国际贸易法院由其行使司法审查权,防止行政机关滥用授权。美国贸易政策的制订权往往是在行政部门和立法部门之间进行分配,法院通常奉行"司法克制"的态度,通常避免就国会和总统之间在对外政策领域的权力关系问题进行裁决。但其一旦决定介入,必然成为最终的决定性因素。     

Hotel management contracts in the U.S.: Twelve areas of concern

The traditional hotel-management contract is being reformulated even as you read this. Most changes have been to the benefit of owners.     

The U.S. Wine Industry

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美国零售业态发展浅析

零售业态在美国得到了空前的发展,且已相当成熟,对美国业态的发展研究将会使我们从中受到启示:政府根据具体经济环境鼓励发展无店铺、杂货店、保健品店等多种业态,而且,在业态结构的管理上要进行优化,使之均衡发展,此外政府应该建立信息平台和预警体系,为零售业态健康发展提供保障。     

美国FICO评分系统述评

作为个人信用评估事实上的标准,FICO评分系统在美国得到广泛地使用。FICO评分系统有五类主要影响因素:客户的信用偿还历史、信用账户数、使用信用的年限、正在使用的信用类型、新开立的信用账户。这五类因素有不同的权重,每类因素中又包括若干子项。     

The Retail Travels of the U.S. Greenback: A Comparative Study of Currency Substitution Along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borders

This currency substitution study explores the extent of retail firm-level U.S. dollar acceptance in Canada and Mexico. Employing a stratified random sampling approach of retail business in the border region, results demonstrate that all Mexican firms (N = 300/300) and nearly all Canadian (N = 257/261) firms accept the U.S. dollar in retail transactions. Of greater interest is the difference between firms in the two countries in how acceptance of the U.S. dollar is operationalized. On average, U.S. dollar sales of Canadian border firms comprise just 3.4% of total sales whereas U.S. dollar sales of Mexican firms encompass 23.7% of total sales. Our results also indicate a stark contrast as to the effective exchange rate for U.S. dollar acceptance— Canadian firms typically charge a premium (2.1% on average) while 69.3% of Mexican firms transacted business at a discount (?0.8% on average). Additional analyses further refine the currency substitution distinctions between Canadian and Mexican firms in the sample including a logistical regression which reveals significant differences as to firm-level predictors of U.S. dollar acceptance (whether at a discount or premium).     

The role of the U.S. medical complex and the media in value transformation: The case of viable organ transplant

This paper examines the unintended consequences of marketing a specific technology— viable organ transplantation. A content analysis of print media is conducted to compare accounts of the world's first heart transplant (1967) with accounts of subsequent local transplants in a southwestern city. Results of this analysis suggest that “objective” coverage of transplant incidents convey changes in the construction of the self the authors associate with the interdependence of culture, technology, and marketing practice.