KKR 野蛮人跌跤

这些向来擅长吞掉别人，并借助上市退出获取高额回报的金融玩家们，如今在形势所迫之下，也不得不放下教练员的架子，亲自上场参与股市竞赛了。     

Risikomanagement für kundenorientierte Verm?genswerte im Spannungsfeld zwischen Steuerung und Rechnungslegung

Die wachsende Bedeutung der Kundenorientierung führt dazu, dass auch die Relevanz kundenorientierter Verm?genswerte in den IFRS-Bilanzen steigt. War die überwachung dieser Werte in der Vergangenheit ausschlie?lich ein Thema der Unternehmenssteuerung, so sind nun auch externe Anforderungen zu erfüllen. Insbesondere ist zu fragen, wie hierzu das Risikomanagement für Steuerung und externes Rechnungswesen auszugestalten ist. Daher werden in diesem Beitrag zun?chst die grunds?tzlichen Implikationen für das Risikomanagement identifiziert. Anschlie?end steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, ob ein für die Steuerung konzipiertes Risikomanagement gleichsam auch für den Impairment-Test geeignet ist und umgekehrt.     

Real-world jump-diffusion term structure models

This paper considers interest rate term structure models in a market attracting both continuous and discrete types of uncertainty. The event-driven noise is modelled by a Poisson random measure. Using as numeraire the growth optimal portfolio, interest rate derivatives are priced under the real-world probability measure. In particular, the real-world dynamics of the forward rates are derived and, for specific volatility structures, finite-dimensional Markovian representations are obtained. Furthermore, allowing for a stochastic short rate in a non-Markovian setting, a class of tractable affine term structures is derived where an equivalent risk-neutral probability measure may not exist.     

Political and Institutional Factors in the Convergence of International Equity Markets: Evidence from the Club Convergence and Clustering Procedure

In this study the new panel convergence methodology developed by Phillips and Sul (2007) is employed to explore the convergence dynamics of international equity markets and determine whether political and institutional factors can explain convergence or divergence patterns across international equity markets. The empirical findings suggest that international equity markets do not form a homogeneous convergence club. Seven specific political and institutional factors are used to explain such divergent behavior. The empirical analysis documented specific factors, i.e. democratization, unemployment benefits, and public expenditure on pensions, which seem capable of explaining such a heterogeneous divergent pattern among the equity markets under study.     

动物饲养人责任归责原则探析——中、德法律比较

对饲养动物致人损害的归责处理，中国法在“无过错责任”和“推定过错责任”之间徘徊；德国法则针对不同的饲养目的分别采取不同的归责原则。但中德两国法律有一个相似的地方，即在饲养的动物致人损害的案件中，动物的饲养人和管理人也并非在任何情况下都要承担全部责任。     

Consumption‐Focused Self‐Expression Word of Mouth: A New Scale and Its Role in Consumer Research

This research represents the first systematic empirical examination of the motivation to spread word of mouth about consumption activities in order to self‐express, a phenomenon that has been observed in both the academic literature and the popular press. Consumption‐focused self‐expression is a motivation to engage in word‐of‐mouth communication that is distinct from other word‐of‐mouth motivations that have been discussed in the literature. This work defines consumption‐focused self‐expression word of mouth as communication about one's consumption activities for the purpose of expressing one's self‐concept and attracting attention to oneself. A scale to measure consumption‐focused self‐expression word of mouth is developed and shown to exhibit a consistent scale structure, acceptable reliability, and convergent, discriminant, nomological, and predictive validity. Scores on the consumption‐focused self‐expression word‐of‐mouth scale are shown to predict differences in the quantity and nature of consumers’ actual word‐of‐mouth communications via the social networking Web site Facebook.     

房利美、房地美殃及全球？

最近几周，因七年前“9．11”事件造成的独有恐慌情绪重新弥漫在华尔街上空。金融股纷纷下挫伴随着投资者的大规模抛售，一度对股市持乐观态度的人们不得不再次修正自己的预期。     

Accounting as an affective technology: A study of circulation,agency and entrancement

This paper argues that accounting is an affective technology. We show how people’s feelings and emotions are constructed through accounting practices and templates. Much research in accounting and economics is based on rationality assumptions that suggest that people act after working through cost–benefit calculations. Information may be imperfect and our cognitive abilities constrained but such modes of calculation and economic reasoning are assumed to drive action. Whilst not setting aside the significance of rationality and intelligibility, this study illustrates that it is affect and passion alongside cognitive calculation that generate movement and action in organisational networks. An in-depth case study of a very large and well known global American corporation spanning 4 years illustrates how affect is engineered by corporate executives through accounting templates and targets. In local sites, periods of excitement and elation ensue but so do anxiety and sleepless nights as yet again, budgets are cut and stated targets rise. Productivity spreadsheets, planning pyramids and human resource programs all contribute to the circulation of affect in the global network as new identities (both individual and collective) are defined and underperforming employees managed out. The committed and devoted ‘Players’ of the organisation express love for the firm, tolerate inconsistent instructions and overlook what might (by outsiders) be conceived as breaches of trust. As such, they collaborate in their own entrancement. We conclude that accounting technologies play on people’s passions and emotions rather than purely on their intellectual and reasoning skills, and that it is this emotive edge to accounting that generates and sustains action in organisational networks.