试析保险欺诈

保险欺诈是保险公司面临的一项难题。保险欺诈的形式有订立保险合同时的欺诈和保险索赔时的欺诈。保险欺诈的产生有其本质根源、社会根源、心理根源和保险业的内部根源。寻找有效的防范保险欺诈的方法需要从加大保险宣传、充分利用法律武器及提高保险公司的承保和理赔管理水平各方面入手。     

论个人资信评估体系的构建主体

结合其他国家建立信用体系的经验及我国进行信征集试点城市的现状来分析以政府牵头为主，金融机构先行为主及第三方自发为主的三个构建主体方案的利弊，最终得出一个适合中国国情的、合理的、高效的个人资信体系构建主体。     

The rise of cost accounting: evidence from Italy

Accounting historians link the origins of cost accounting to the rise of manufacturing firms and, in a more detailed way, to efficiency control, pricing and decision-making problems faced in those organizations. To date, the international debate has mainly focused on practices in the USA, Great Britain and France, with little evidence available of developments in other countries, such as Italy. In this paper, the authors analyse the development of cost accounting in an Italian firm, 'La Magona d'Italia'. This iron, steel and tinplate firm, situated in Piombino, is observed over the period 1865-1940, i.e. during the central phase of the industrial revolution in Italy. We find that several factors influenced the implementation of a cost accounting system at Magona, including efficiency control, strategic decision making, and stock valuation. We also find a strong British influence on Magona's strategy, organization and information system, particularly in respect of finance, managers, technology and accounting practices. There is little evidence that Italian accounting traditions and practice played much of a role.     

反商业贿赂与政府采购机制的完善

政府采购已成为财政支出的重要组成部分.巨大的利润空间给政府采购带来了商业贿赂的风险.运用成本-收益理论、政府规制俘获理论和公平理论,分析其产生的根源及可能带来的后果,可采取相应措施消除政府采购中商业贿赂因子的现实途径.     

个人教育投资的均衡分析

人力资本投资的关键形式是教育投资。文章认为,个人教育投资的均衡条件是边际成本等于边际收益。因为个人教育投资的边际成本递增,边际收益递减,所以必须采取多种措施刺激个人教育投资的积极性,才能促进我国教育事业的大发展。     

对发展我国汽车金融公司的思考

随着我国加入WTO以后对汽车金融服务业的进一步开放,国外汽车金融公司纷纷进驻这个极具潜力的庞大市场.2003年底我国先后颁布了<汽车金融公司管理办法>和<汽车金融公司管理细则>,至2005年1月,通用、大众、丰田汽车金融(中国)公司相继开业.本文在介绍成熟汽车金融公司特点的基础上,针对我国汽车金融公司的具体情况,提出一些对策与建议,希望能够对我国的汽车金融公司的发展有所裨益.     

LONWORKS现场总线质量控制技术在油田生产中的应用

现场总线是一种安装在生产过程区域的现场设备或过程仪表和控制室内的自动化控制系统之间的开放式、数字化、双向串行、多节点的数据通信总线。该技术是近年来随着计算机、通信、控制技术的进步，数字通信网络应用到工业过程现场控制后，逐渐发展．并得到广泛应用的现代控制技术，目前，比较有名的有FF、Profibus、LONWORKS、HART、CAN等总线。     

Automatic balancing mechanisms for notional defined contribution accounts in the presence of uncertainty

The notional defined contribution model combines pay-as-you-go financing and a defined contribution pension formula. This paper aims to demonstrate the extent to which liquidity and solvency indicators are affected by fluctuations in economic and demographic conditions and to explore the introduction of an automatic balancing mechanism (ABM) into the pension scheme. We demonstrate that the introduction of an ABM reduces the volatility of the buffer fund and that, in most cases, the automatic mechanism that re-establishes solvency produces the highest value of the risk-adjusted notional factor.     

Bank Competition with Financing and Savings Substitutes

This paper models the banking competition in loan and deposit markets on two levels. We measure the competition among different banks and among banks and non-bank financing and saving alternatives. We estimate a model of demand, cost, and market equilibrium equations for differentiated products by using data from the confidential reports that Spanish banks provide to the Bank of Spain during the period from 1988 to 2003. This database contains information on the effective interest rates on new loans and deposits, and the expected loan losses obtained from the Spanish Credit Register. The estimated price elasticities show that the products offered by different banks are close substitutes, which puts pressure on the banks’ profits margins. However, the substitutability between bank and non-bank products is much lower than the substitutability among products offered by different banks. The results also show that Spain’s entrance into the Eurozone did not cause a structural change in the demand and cost conditions of Spanish banks. The banks financed most of the imbalances between bank loans and domestic deposits before the crisis through the interbank market.     

Board of Directors and CSR in Banking: The Moderating Role of Bank Regulation and Investor Protection Strength

This paper brings together research on boards of directors as the backbone of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in the banking industry. The underlying idea is that some characteristics of bank boards, in particular independence and gender diversity, may impact the CSR commitments of banks. By making use of a sample of 159 banks in nine countries during the period 2004–2010, our empirical evidence suggests that banks with more independent directors and more female members on their boards incline toward socially responsible behaviour. Our results also suggest that institutional factors play a significant role in these effects. They show that in greater regulatory and stronger investor protection environments, board independence and gender diversity have more influence on the social behaviour of banks.