The New Economy is dead,long live the information economy

The arrival of the 2001–2003 recession caused many to suppose that the so-called “New Economy” was now defunct. This article addresses a number of related issues, including the question of the durability and viability of business cycles in the face of the technological developments of the information age. It asks what went wrong with the New Economy and examines its characteristics as well as its remaining possibilities and prospects for the future. Finally, it considers the spread of the Information Economy to Europe, especially to Germany, the country that one might expect to be the leading European player, but which is not at present actually a strong competitor for that role.     

Approximating unanimity orderings: An application to Lorenz dominance

Stochastic dominance and Lorenz dominance are examples of orderings which require unanimous agreement among an infinite set of indices. This paper considers various subsets of inequality measures that respect Lorenz dominance, and assesses the extent to which a small number of indices can reproduce the Lorenz ordering. Using income data for 80 countries, our results suggest that Lorenz dominance can be predicted with 99% accuracy using just 3 or 4 inequality measures, as long as two of them focus on the extreme upper and lower tails of the distribution. In contrast, confining attention to the index families and parameter ranges normally considered may fail to detect the majority of occasions when Lorenz curves intersect. These results lead us to question the faith placed in procedures based on a finite set of inequality indices, and to suggest that similar lessons will apply to other types of unanimity orderings.     

税收筹划:企业节税的理性选择

一、税收筹划的涵义 税收筹划是指纳税人采取合法的节税方式,通过研究税收法律规定,关注税收政策变化,利用不同国家间税法上的差异和我国地域间、行业间税收政策的差别,对经营活动事先筹划和安排,进行纳税方案的优化选择,以尽可能地减轻负担,获取最大税收利益的一种行为.随着经济运行的法治化、规范化以及纳税人纳税意识的提高,企业从维护自身整体、长远利益出发,必将摒弃避税、偷逃税等短期行为,将科学的税收筹划活动纳入到企业自身的经营行为之中,成为企业实现财务管理目标,合法节税的一种理性选择.     

西部开发与企业家精神

西部开发给新一代的大学生提供了广阔的发展空间，大学生到西部创业体现了我国当代大学生具有了一定的企业家精神，西部开发给我们提供了培养我国具有冒险精神的企业家的沃土，但大学生到西部创业并不是一帆风顺的，他们必须具有一定的素质条件，才有可能在西部开发的大环境中有所作为。     

中频逆变电路运行分析

本文主要对中频静止晶闸管逆变电源的逆变部分的运行特点进分析,从原理方面介绍了逆变晶闸管触发、保护的原则。     

沉默权浅析及我国沉默权制度构建研究

沉默权源于英美法的“不自证其罪的权利”,是犯罪嫌疑人或被告人在审判过程保持沉默和拒绝回答问题的权利。它最早源于英国,后又在美国推行,并波及欧洲各国;现在国际文件都有相应规定。沉默权是一项人权,是公民“言论自由”的体现,是一项实施无罪推定的权利。它对保护嫌疑犯与被告人的利益,维持政府与人民的权利均衡发挥了重要作用。因此我国应建立沉默权制度,对其既要引入,又应加以限制。引进沉默权,应在“相对合理主义”原理的基础上进行,同时应认真考虑和完善立法。     

Produktgarantien und Aktienkrise — Implikationen für die Kapitalanlagepolitik von Lebensversicherungsunternehmen

The present contribution analyzes the implications of two central factors influencing the asset allocation decision of (German) life insurance companies, the development of the equity market on one hand and the interest rate guarantees included in traditional life insurance products on the other. The adverse development of share prices in 2000–2002 implies the necessity to consider not only ?normal“ volatility but also worst case-developments for the purpose of risk control. Formally this is done by using the risk measures value-at-risk and conditional value-at-risk. The specific ?myopic“ nature of interest rate guarantees in German life insurance products, which are granted on a yearly basis implies — beyond the general control of the shortfall risk with respect to the guaranteed interest rates — the necessity to per-form the asset allocation on a yearly basis to be in conformity with the time horizon of the liabilities.On the basis of a quantitative approach corresponding model calculations are performed. Thereby not only a pure market valuation is considered but also institutional peculiarities (hidden reserves, accounting norms) of German life insurance companies. The possibility of a riskless one-year investment, either based on market values or on balance sheet values, is revealed to be crucial for giving interest rate guarantees on a yearly basis.     

Branding and relationships: Customer and supplier perspectives

This paper explores and investigates the role of branding within financial services. Specifically, the study aims to assess the importance of branding and its associated elements including brand image and brand experience in the relationships that exist between consumers and their financial brands. It aims to achieve this through research, which identifies gaps between the managerial and consumer perspectives on branding in relationships in retail financial services. It is well established that the characteristics of services are different from those of manufactured goods and that service personnel play a central role in the services experience. Moreover, the concept of relationship marketing within services proclaims the importance of one-to-one relationships between businesses and customers as well as relationships between consumers and their brands. Drawing from the fields of brand management, relationship marketing and services marketing, this research aims to investigate the perceptional differences between consumers and suppliers in relation to the importance of branding in financial service relationships. The research findings indicate that brand experience appears to be far more salient than brand image in shaping and building meaningful and lasting brand perceptions and promoting customer retention.