Sense of belonging,international migrants’ spending,and implications for their subjective well-being

A lack of a sense of belonging in the host country has become one of the most common challenges facing international migrants in today's sociopolitical environment. Our two online experiments with 881 international migrant workers in the United States jointly demonstrate that, to cope with their lack of a sense of belonging in the host country, international migrants may spend money suboptimally: more on material purchases but less on experiential and prosocial purchases. More importantly, our studies suggest that prosocial purchases are more effective than experiential purchases in increasing international migrants’ subjective well-being. This is because prosocial purchases can lead to both relatedness need satisfaction and beneficence, with each independently contributing to international migrants’ subjective well-being. Our research suggests that public policymakers should address the social exclusion international migrants experience when moving to a new country because it can have a negative impact on their subjective well-being. Our research further suggests that one way to mitigate social exclusion is to encourage international migrants to spend money on others rather than themselves.     

The influence of social capital on local retail patronage in an urban setting

Local retail stores are currently facing intense competition from both online retailers and large chain stores. An understanding of local retail store patronage (i.e., patronage of retail stores in one's own community) is essential to the survival and growth of local retailers. Drawing on Social Capital Theory, we theorize and show with store-level survey data the influence of social capital (community attachment and reciprocity) on local retail store patronage in a large urban setting. We find that the impact of social factors differs for residents within the community compared to those outside of the community. We also demonstrate the importance of social factors in comparison to non-social factors. These findings contribute to the literature by extending the impact of social capital on local retail store patronage beyond rural settings, providing insight into urban consumers' decision to patronize local retail stores, and highlighting the impact of community boundaries. These findings also generate practical recommendations for local merchants and stress the importance of building reciprocal relationships with local customers as well as varying communications across community boundaries.     

Does character's gender matter in inspirational brand story? Exploring the moderating effect of gender role conformity

Inspirational brand story is a widely used marketing strategy in brand building. However, few empirical studies have investigated the underlying mechanism and boundary conditions of a successful brand story strategy. The current study examined the influence of lead character's gender in inspirational brand story on consumer–brand identification based on the social identity theory, benevolent sexism, and gender schema theory. Results from two experiments demonstrated that the gender of inspirational brand stories has an impact on consumer brand identity through the mediation effect of sympathy. Compared with a male character, a female character elicits viewers' sympathy, which results in high brand identification. Such a gender effect is stronger when there is a high level of perceived gender role conformity. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.     

Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction

This study examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic employment by using unique division-level data of Japanese firms. Contrary to most previous studies focusing on the effect of FDI on net employment growth, we decompose it into job creation (JC) and job destruction (JD) for each individual firm. We find that FDI destination plays an important role: FDI to Asia increases JC, whereas FDI to Europe/North America decreases it; furthermore JD decreases, regardless of FDI destination. A frictional search-and-matching model with heterogeneous jobs can explain the differential effects. The model provides additional predictions on JC and JD by job type, which are also empirically confirmed.     

Asymptotic subadditivity/superadditivity of Value-at-Risk under tail dependence

This paper presents a new method for discussing the asymptotic subadditivity/superadditivity of Value-at-Risk (VaR) for multiple risks. We consider the asymptotic subadditivity and superadditivity properties of VaR for multiple risks whose copula admits a stable tail dependence function (STDF). For the purpose, a marginal region is defined by the marginal distributions of the multiple risks, and a stochastic order named tail concave order is presented for comparing individual tail risks. We prove that asymptotic subadditivity of VaR holds when individual risks are smaller than regularly varying (RV) random variables with index −1 under the tail concave order. We also provide sufficient conditions for VaR being asymptotically superadditive. For two multiple risks sharing the same copula function and satisfying the tail concave order, a comparison result on the asymptotic subadditivity/superadditivity of VaR is given. Asymptotic diversification ratios for RV and log regularly varying (LRV) margins with specific copula structures are obtained. Empirical analysis on financial data is provided for highlighting our results.     

Crypto quanto and inverse options

Over 90% of exchange trading on crypto options has always been on the Deribit platform. This centralized crypto exchange only lists inverse products because they do not accept fiat currency. Likewise, other major crypto options platforms only list crypto–stablecoin trading pairs in so-called direct options, which are similar to the standard crypto options listed by the CME except the US dollar is replaced by a stablecoin version. Until now a clear mathematical exposition of these products has been lacking. We discuss the sources of market incompleteness in direct and inverse options and compare their pricing and hedging characteristics. Then we discuss the useful applications of currency protected “quanto” direct and inverse options for fiat-based traders and describe their pricing and hedging characteristics, all in the Black–Scholes setting.     

不同生计模式下六盘山区易地扶贫搬迁移民生计资本耦合协调研究——以甘肃省古浪县为例

[目的]探究易地扶贫搬迁移民的生计耦合协调有助于全面了解移民的生计问题,对提高移民可持续生计能力及后续发展提供参考。[方法]文章以甘肃省古浪县易地扶贫搬迁家庭为研究对象,通过2019—2021年实地访谈和问卷调查等方法对移民家庭的生计状况进行调查,选取测度指标并计算各类移民的生计资本值,根据移民收入来源对生计模式进行分类,运用耦合协调度模型分析各生计模式下移民5项生计资本间的关系。[结果]（1）生计资本内部耦合水平总体较低,处于低度耦合和失调衰退等级;（2）非农型的生计资本耦合度和协调度最高,分别为0.299和0.230,是最为接近中度耦合和过渡协调阶段的生计模式;（3）两类兼业户的次之,处在（0.15,0.3）的区间内,属于低度耦合和衰退协调的中高级阶段;（4）纯农户的较低,为0.172和0.223,处于低度耦合和协调衰退的中阶段;（5）补贴户的最低,耦合度、协调度均在（0,1）的区间,处在低度弱耦合和恶性失调等级。[结论]古浪县不同生计模式下易地扶贫搬迁移民的生计资本存量和差距,导致其耦合协调性较差、差异较大。     

企业技术创新行为的内部因素研究

企业技术创新行为是多种合力共同作用的结果，而企业内部环境是其主要影响因素之一。从管理体系、组织目标、资金技术条件、企业文化等几方面入手，阐述了内部环境因素对技术创新行为的影响。     

科学学习和经验学习:概念、特征及理论意义

基于国内外相关研究,系统阐述并比较了科学学习和经验学习两种学习模式的概念起源、内涵、特征及其理论意义,分析两种学习模式与技术创新绩效的关系,并通过案例研究描述了企业的STI学习行为和DUI学习行为。     

浅析交易性金融资产与可供出售金融资产的会计处理

现行企业会计准则将金融资产进行了严格的分类,并对各类金融资产的确认、计量进行了明确规定。交易性金融资产与可供出售金融资产的会计处理有类似之处,但也有不同。本文通过实例对二者的会计处理进行浅析。