Small Firm Investment and Financing Decisions: An Option Value Approach

This paper reviews and discusses recent developments undergone by investment theory, and tries to address both financial and real decisions within an uncertain environment, here, the Italian economy. According to the recent "option value" approach to investment, if differing degrees of reversibility characterize the accumulation process by groups of firms (small and larger firms), we should expect their investment decisions to differ under uncertainty. On the other hand, asset reversibility has an influence on firm financing policy, given the observed relationship between asset and liability composition. Assuming a different degree of investment reversibility for small and larger firms, we explore how they react to interest rate uncertainty using the Italian experience during the 1980s as a benchmark. The main result of this paper is that interest rate uncertainty exerts a negative influence on firms' investment demand. The relationship is stronger for large firms than for small firms. Another result is that firm leverage also shows a negative relationship with interest rate uncertainty.     

过度竞争、进入壁垒与流通组织优化

过度竞争是流通产业健康运行的重要障碍。文章从产品同质性和产品差异化两个角度,运用扩展的伯川德模型和萨洛普模型,分析了过度竞争在流通产业中出现的必然性,即流通产业自由进入的特点决定了过度竞争的存在。然后运用斯塔尔博格模型,采用跨期分析,指出了流通企业选择合适的投资水平可以阻止潜在进入者,避免过度竞争的发生。最后,提出了优化流通组织的建议。     

论微观经济基础下增值税转型的理想选择

本文从微观经济角度研究理想状态下企业对不同类型增值税的选择.研究表明,理想状态下,收入型与消费型增值税对企业利润的影响无差异且优于生产型增值税;而不同类型增值税对企业净现金流的影响优化排序是消费型、收入型、生产型,且生产型增值税的价外计税方法优于价内计税方法.总之,消费型增值税是企业的理想选择.     

Taking Actively Advantage of MNCs’ Presence

In this paper, not only do we posit that the presence of a multinational corporation may entail significant benefits for the host economy and local firms’ performance, but also that these benefits can be actively sought and dynamically reinforced by local firms through the development of intense, embedded customer–supplier relationships. Building on the relational view, we argue that this may happen through the commitment of resources to relation-specific investments. Our hypotheses find support in a sample of SMEs suppliers of ST Microelectronics, the fourth largest producer of microelectronic components in the world. We show that by making relation-specific investments, local firms can grow quantitatively and qualitatively, improve their innovativeness, and acquire new clients.     

面向应用的《电子商务概论》课程教学模式研究

根据"电子商务概论"课程的特点,基于专业定位,提出了新型的模块化教学模式,重在培养学生解决实际问题和创新的能力,实现课程与社会实际需求的对接。     

对构建我国所得税会计准则相关问题的探讨

构建高质量的所得税会计准则既要考虑所得税会计准则国际化的策略,又要注意协调与相关会计标准的关系.论文在对所得税事项的实质及其财务影响进行剖析的基础上,探讨了我国所得税会计准则的目标、原则;在对相关因素进行分析、权衡的基础上,对所得税会计准则的定位、会计方法选择提出明确意见.这些问题不仅涉及所得税会计准则的主要内容,而且关系到所得税会计准则的质量.     

工程项目四要素集成管理能力评价体系研究

集成管理是确保工程项目取得成功的重要工作,而其核心则是项目范围、质量、成本和时间这四要素的集成管理。由于管理能力是实现管理工作的关键,因此本文以研究工程项目四要素集成管理能力的影响因素为主要内容。基于已有的研究成果进行问卷设计,通过对问卷调查数据进行因子分析,找出了工程项目过程管理能力、组织管理能力和信息管理能力三个维度所涉及的影响因素。进而通过相关性分析明确了三个维度之间的关系,最终给出了工程项目四要素集成管理能力的构成要素及内部结构,从而为开展该能力的评价提供了理论基础。     

The role of the wage-productivity gap in economic activity

This paper argues that wages lagging behind productivity is a long-run structural phenomenon due to the interplay of wage dynamics and productivity growth. We call this interplay frictional growth, a term that can only be nullified in the utopian case of zero growth and/or no dynamics. In that vein, we challenge the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share and investigate its impact on the evolution of employment. We thus estimate wage setting and labour demand equation systems – for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US over the 1960–2008 period – and find that the labour share is negatively associated with employment even when the conventional assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages with respect to productivity holds. Acknowledging the presence of the wage-productivity gap in both the short and long run, this work stands as the building block for assessing the effect of the falling labour share on economic activity. As recent work has shown that the widening wage gap is also an important factor prompting inequality, it can be argued that by supporting employment the falling labour share ‘sweetens’ the impact of rising income inequality, and, as such, deserves the attention of policy makers.     

Verti-zontal differentiation in export markets

Many trade models of monopolistic competition identify cost efficiency as the main determinant of firm performance in export markets. To date, the analysis of demand factors has received much less attention. We propose a new model where consumer preferences are asymmetric across varieties and heterogeneous across countries. The model generates new predictions and allows for an identification of horizontal differentiation (taste) clearly distinguished from vertical differentiation (quality). Data patterns observed in Belgian firm–product level exports by destination are congruent with the predictions and seem to warrant a richer modelling of consumer demand.