Metafrontier frameworks for the study of firm-level efficiencies and technology ratios

This paper uses the concept of a metafrontier to compare the technical efficiencies of firms that may be classified into different groups. The paper presents the basic analytical framework necessary for the definition of a metafrontier, shows how a metafrontier can be estimated using non-parametric and parametric methods, and presents an empirical application using cross-country agricultural sector data. The paper also explores the issues of technological change, time-varying technical inefficiency, multiple outputs, different efficiency orientations, and firm heterogeneity.     

Inferring Market Structure from Customer Response to Competing and Complementary Products

We consider customer influences on market structure, arguing that market structure should explain the extent to which any given set of market offerings are substitutes or complements. We describe recent additions to the market structure analysis literature and identify promising directions for new research in market structure analysis. Impressive advances in data collection, statistical methodology and information technology provide unique opportunities for researchers to build market structure tools that can assist real-time marketing decision-making.     

Holiday users of the Internet — ease of use,functionality and novelty

This study is based upon a sample of 517 international visitors to New Zealand. It suggests that Internet usage is based upon perceived usefulness and ease of system use. Of additional importance is user confidence about system security. Functional issues of purchasing seem to take priority over information search as users become more familiar with web pages. An additional finding is that entertainment needs are arguably better met by other Internet functions than those provided by destination web pages. Novelty on the Net is perhaps sought from specific sources, and not from the Net generally. Implications are discussed for both measurement and marketing. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中国货币供给的内生性:理论分析与实证评述

本文回顾了国际上货币供给内生的有关理论,指出其在解释我国面临相关问题时的适用性。根据货币供给关系式:M=Bk所提供的框架,分两个方面即基础货币B和货币乘数k来讨论货币供给,综述几种主要的建模、计量实证方法的优劣,并得出结论:我国的货币供给内生性所折射出的是我国现有的整个金融体系的构造性问题,参杂着许多向市场转轨期的制度因素以及市场因素,在涉及货币政策时必须对这些因素进行细致的考虑。最后,在上述分析的基础上提出针对性的政策建议。     

Corporate Social Responsibility: Is Too Much Bad?—Evidence from India

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets - Over the years, firms have been using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a strategic tool to improve their competitiveness and ultimately benefit their...     

International price competitiveness of Australia's MICE industry

A special‐interest tourist market that holds out great promise for continued growth well into the next century is that of MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, exhibitions). At the same time, changing prices in particular destinations relative to others are regarded as one of the most important economic influences on destination shares of total international tourism flows. The question arises as to the price competitiveness of major competing MICE destinations. Although earlier research has recognised that a destination's price competitiveness differs according to a visitor's country of origin there has been relatively little attention paid to tourism price competitiveness from the perspective of those having different motives for travel. This paper has four major aims: first, to provide a method by which price competitiveness of tourism by journey purpose can be estimated; second, to construct price competitiveness indices that measure, absolutely and relative to major competitors world‐wide, the price competitiveness of Australia's MICE tourism industry; third, to compare Australia's price competitiveness as a MICE destination with its price competitiveness for total inbound tourism; fourth, to discuss the implications of the results for travel and tourism decision‐makers in both the private and public sectors. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility

Journal of Productivity Analysis - We demonstrate how earlier approaches to model the impact that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has on investment inefficiency are likely to be incorrect and...     

Information sharing between mutual funds and auditors

This paper examines whether there is information sharing between mutual funds and their auditors about the auditors’ other listed firm clients. Using data from the Chinese market, we find that mutual funds earn higher profits from trading in firms that share the same auditors. The effects are more pronounced when firms have a more opaque information environment and when the audit partners for the fund and the partners for the listed firm share school ties. The evidence is consistent with information flowing from auditors to mutual funds, providing mutual funds with an information advantage in firms that share the same auditors. Our findings are robust to the use of audit-firm mergers and acquisitions (M&As) as exogenous shocks and several other robustness checks. We further find that auditors benefit by charging higher audit fees for mutual fund clients and by improving their audit quality for listed firm clients. Our study provides evidence of bi-directional information sharing between two important market intermediaries.     

浅析邮政储蓄短信业务的发展策略

文章阐述了邮政储蓄短信业务发展的必要性,并从内部营销、前台营销、媒体营销、联动营销和分类营销五个方面,探讨了发展邮政储蓄短信业务的营销策略。     

邮政储蓄银行公司业务发展对策

文章对贵州省邮政储蓄银行公司业务的发展现状进行了分析，从开户数量、宣传手段、业务品种、激励机制等方面总结了公司业务开展中存在的问题，探讨了解决这些问题的思路与措施。