Environmental Policy Instruments: Technology Adoption Incentives with Imperfect Compliance

We study the incentives to adopt advanced abatement technologies in the presence of imperfect compliance. Interestingly, incentives under emission taxes and pollution abatement subsidies are the same that in the perfect compliance scenario. However, under emission standards imperfect compliance can increase firms’ incentives to invest, whereas under an emission permit mechanism investment incentives decrease only if widespread non-compliance induces a reduction in the permit price. Our results are valid for fairly general characteristics of the monitoring and enforcement strategies commonly found in both, theoretical and empirical applications.     

四川省国有控股上市公司社会责任综合评价

国有控股上市公司作为特殊的公众公司,践行社会责任是其可持续发展的应有之义和必然诉求。本文从国有控股上市公司社会责任评价体系的构建出发,运用灰色关联分析法对2008年四川省国有控股上市公司社会责任履行情况进行了综合评价,旨在促进国有控股上市公司与资本市场的和谐稳定健康发展。     

资产减值会计政策变化的效应分析——来自2005～2006年中国A股上市公司的经验证据

本文以2005～2006年我国沪深股市的全部A股上市公司为样本,研究了<企业准则第8号--资产减值>颁布对上市公司长期资产减值转回行为的影响,结果表明:长期资产减值期初额与长期资产减值转回显著正相关,且在分年度的样本中该关系保持稳定;2006年长期资产减值转回的比例远远高于2005年.由此可以推断:资产减值会计政策变化将在一定程度上缩小上市公司利用减值会计政策进行盈余操纵的空间.     

Why some firms adopt telecommuting while others do not: A contingency perspective

Using a contingency perspective and data from 122 CEOs of Spanish firms, this paper examines what makes a firm likely to adopt telecommuting. We hypothesized that employer adoption of telecommuting would depend on organizational constraints (age and size of the firm), the international composition of the workforce, and the top executives' leadership style. In turn, we argue that firms adopting telecommuting would emphasize outcome‐based control systems. Our empirical evidence showed that telecommuting correlated with small organizational size, a high proportion of international employees, and variable compensation. A contingent reward leadership style at the top moderated the effects of firm age and internationalization on the adoption of telecommuting. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

我国农产品供应链模型的构建及博弈分析

通过分析我国农产品物流发展中存在的主要困难,提出在多重假设条件下,以农业协作组织作为农户与第三方物流企业契约制定人的组织方式,用博弈论的方法,通过信用博弈模型的构建及分析,得出策略影响因素,为农业协作组织的最佳农户覆盖范围及监督策略提供依据.     

风险分析在食品安全管理中的应用研究

通过对风险评估、风险管理和风险交流过程的阐述介绍了风险分析理论及其在我国食品安全管理中的应用意义,并利用食品安全评估指数,给出了基于食品安全指数评估模型的评估流程,以期提高我国食品质量安全管理水平,实现食品安全的风险预警和应急管理.     

The Relationship Between Firm Size and Innovation Activity: A Double Decision Approach†

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between firm size and innovation activity using Spanish data at firm level corresponding to the manufacturing sector for the period 1990-93. This exercise is different to previous applications because we allow for different size effects in the decision to innovate and the innovation count equation, in the context of a double-hurdle approach. Several tests confirm the hurdle negbin model. We find that firm size is a relevant factor, although size effects are different in both decisions. A robust result from the different specifications estimated is the rejection of the Gilbert and Newbery hypotheses. We find out that the behaviour of firm size is neither linear in the decision nor in thc count equation. We also provide additional, and sometimes different, evidence to previous Spanish studies on R&D.     

Gender Inequality in the Spanish Public Pension System

This contribution studies revenue sharing in the public pension system in Spain from a gender perspective, revealing that differences are evident in the percentage of men and women entitled to different types of pensions and in the average fiscal amount per pension for men and women. Using 2010 data, the study analyzes how labor market conditions are reflected in pension type and amount for women pensioners, yielding two important conclusions: the income of women pensioners decreases, relative to men, with age; and the degree of inequality of pensions among women is lower than that among men. These gender differences owe to the contributory character of the system, which reproduces the labor market inequalities of both genders – inequalities that ultimately derive from the social division of roles in which women remain responsible for unpaid care work. This conclusion is consistent with similar studies on other European countries and world regions.