The Logic of History and Leadership: Anselm's Analogs

Sweeney (2003) has stated that Anselm of Canterbury produced a paradoxical understanding: God is both inaccessible and obvious (p. 17). The current article proceeds analogically from Anselm's works to a consideration of whether Leadership Studies and the Social Sciences in general can access the obvious omnipresence of History. Finding that neither Leadership Studies nor the other Social Sciences can access that which is obvious, it then extends, in an Anselmian paradox, to discuss the inevitable use of History in Leadership Studies.     

Disclosure and the cost of equity in international cross-listing

In this paper, we examine the relationship between disclosure level and the cost of equity capital for a sample of international firms cross-listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Increased disclosure has the potential to reduce information asymmetry, reduce the cost of financing and increase analyst following. Using an international asset pricing model, we find that listing firms experience a decrease in both disclosure risk and systematic risk while matching firms do not. Further, we find that the magnitude of the decrease is related to three types of disclosure: accounting standards; analyst following; and exchange/regulatory investor protection. Our results suggest that increased disclosure through accounting standards is beneficial to investors and that disclosure can be accomplished through information intermediaries, e.g., analyst following. For firms with the lowest levels of disclosure prior to cross-listing, all three types of disclosure appear to be valuable.

The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare: Comparative Evidence from Asia

The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcareconcentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenzcurves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distributionof public healthcare is prorich in most developing countries.That distribution is avoidable, but a propoor incidence is easierto realize at higher national incomes. The experiences of Malaysia,Sri Lanka, and Thailand suggest that increasing the incidenceof propoor healthcare requires limiting the use of user fees,or protecting the poor effectively from them, and building awide network of health facilities. Economic growth may not onlyrelax the government budget constraint on propoor policies butalso increase propoor incidence indirectly by raising richerindividuals' demand for private sector alternatives.     

Optimal insurance with background risk: An analysis of general dependence structures

Finance and Stochastics - In this paper, we consider an optimal insurance problem from the perspective of a risk-averse individual who faces an insurable risk as well as some background risk and...     

徐家围子断陷区营城组火山岩识别

勘探实践表明徐家围子断陷营城组火山机构是深层天然气藏良好的储集体。本文以徐家围子断陷中部营城组火山岩为研究对象,该区火山岩厚度大,爆发相、喷溢相和火山沉积相等各种相带均较发育,通过对火山岩地震反射特征的系统分析,总结了各种相带的具体震相特征。并以此为依据,应用趋势面属性、相干体分析技术等多种手段,对火山机构的空间分布进行了识别与预测,在营城组共识别出44个火山锥,对本区火山岩气藏的勘探开发具有一定的指导作用。     

光接收机原理及常见故障分析

本文简要介绍了光接收机工作原理及使用中应注意的一些问题,并结合实际对常见故障进行分析.     

集体林区林业专业合作社人才培养质量评估研究

基于福建省83个林业专业合作社的调查数据,运用层次分析法,构建集体林区林业专业合作社人才培养质量的评估模型,并对其进行分析。结果表明:被调查的83个林业专业合作社的人才培养质量评估的各个维度的评估、总体评估的结果均不理想。因此,提出加强对人才培养的重视,营造良好氛围;精心规划培养内容和方法,提高培养的实效性;充分运用多方资源,系统拟定分类人才培养规划;增加人才培养的投入,完善配套制度安排等建议。     

我国出口贸易摩擦预警机制的现状、问题与对策

我国“入世”以后,为了保证出口的稳定增长,维持正常的出口秩序,迅速建立了出口贸易摩擦预警机制并已发挥了重要的作用。然而,出口贸易摩擦出现的一些新特点,对正在完善中的预警机制提出了新的挑战。本文对我国出口贸易摩擦预警机制的现状和问题进行了分析,并提出了相应的对策。