Developing service climate in local vs. foreign firms in smaller Asian emerging markets: a resource-based and social exchange perspective

While research on drivers of service climate has focused on organisational resources and human resource practices such as training, employee autonomy and inter-departmental support, how these resources interrelate and influence service climate has not been examined, especially in the context of smaller Asian emerging market. Drawing on the resource-based view and its extension on dynamic capability, and social exchange theory, this qualitative study investigates how local and foreign firms in smaller Asian emerging markets create a favourable service climate. Our findings suggest three inter-related groups of factors that influence service climate, namely firm-based, market-based and culture-based drivers. Notably, foreign service firms perform better than their local counterparts in several firm-based drivers (e.g. service-oriented human resource management practices, work facilitation resources). Our study proposes a conceptual framework that integrates inter-relationships of organisational resource-based factors and explains how internal and external factors drive service climate in firms in smaller Asian emerging markets.     

电子商务物流体系优化研究

概述了电子商务物流体系的内涵,并在电子商务模型框架内建立了电子商务物流的评价体系,然后基于该评价体系构建了电子商务物流配送的优化模型,最后就如何优化电子商务物流体系提出了具体的措施和建议。     

平原农区村庄迁居安置意愿空间特征及其与通达性关系——以江苏省淮安市为例

准确揭示村庄迁居安置意愿的空间特征及其与村庄通达性的关系,对于推动乡村聚落体系重构和合理发展就地城镇化具有重要意义。文章选择淮安市为研究区,以全样本行政村调查数据和交通网络数据为支撑,利用描述统计分析、GIS空间分析与表达、熵权-TOPSIS模型等方法进行实证研究。研究发现：①村庄迁居安置意愿（Y）空间差异不甚明显,而货币迁居安置意愿（Y₁）的空间差异高于实物迁居安置意愿（Y₂）。Y、Y₁和Y₂都存在空间自相关现象。②外部连通性对村域综合通达性（C_i）的贡献最大,C_i呈现明显的空间差异特征,市域北部平原村庄C_i高于南部低山丘陵和中部河网密布地区村庄。③Y₁、Y₂和C_i在市区和县城周边都表现出明显的圈层分异特征。其中,Y₁是内圈低外圈高,而Y₂和C_i是内圈高外圈低。④在迁居安置意愿与通达性的空间耦合关系上,...     

The firm-level employment effects of innovations in high-tech US manufacturing industries

We focus on four two-digit manufacturing industries that are known for their high patenting activity. We then use Principal Components Analysis to generate a firm- and year-specific ‘innovativeness’ index by extracting the common variance in a firm’s patenting and R&D expenditure histories. To begin with, we explore the heterogeneity of firms by using semi-parametric quantile regression. We then move on to parametric regressions that include a weighted least squares (WLS) analysis, which explicitly takes into account the different job-creating potential of firms of different sizes. As a result, we investigate the effect of innovation on total number of jobs, whereas previous studies have focused on the effect of innovation on firm behavior. Indeed, previous studies have typically taken the firm as the unit of analysis, implicitly weighting each firm equally according to the principle of ‘one firm equals one observation’. Our results suggest that firm-level innovative activity leads to employment creation that may have been underestimated in previous studies.     

房地产宏观调控的政策效应研究

本文用两步多变量回归方法检验了我国2002—2008年房地产宏观调控政策的效果。总的来说,调控政策能够产生比较明显的市场反应;当政策传递出抑制房地产业的信号时,产生显著为负的市场反应;当政策传递出引导房地产市场发展的信号时,产生显著为正的市场反应;市场反应为正或负的政策对房地产市场的影响程度总体上没有显著差异。研究还表明,政策频发能够取得较好的调控效果,但过分密集的政策会因为和前次政策间隔时间过短而使政策效应受阻。     

城镇化、房地产价格与城乡收入差距——基于我国省区面板数据的经验分析

新型城镇化是我国目前为解决经济结构严重失衡而选择的重要战略.本文将如何推进新型城镇化作为研究定位,基于城乡收入差距视角,选择2000-2010年省区面板数据,构建全国与区域模型,得到目前城镇化是城乡收入差距扩大的重要因素.就全国而言,房地产价格因素对差距影响总体表现为中性,但其区域影响存在较大差异等分析结论.提出城乡收入差距应作为一个标志性指标与新型城镇化对接的观点与相应政策空间.     

政策性保险对“互联网+金融”影响测度研究——基于多维信息不对称的视角

以博弈分析法为基础,并对风险类型和风险偏好等因素进行分析可获得参与人的行动规则和效用水平。以此研究政策性保险对"互联网+金融"的影响就会发现,政策性保险、风险无差异曲线、风险偏好和风险类型等因素对保险人零期望利润曲线影响较大。研究还发现,当高风险类型的概率足够低或项目获得政策性保险支持时,零期望利润曲线就向低风险无差异曲线倾斜,甚至有可能位于低风险类型无差异曲线之上。此时,各类风险水平的投保人都参与保险,不仅资金安全有保障,小微企业也能获得充足的低成本资金用于生产,进一步促进经济发展。     

The Potluck Problem

This paper proposes the Potluck Problem as a model for the behavior of independent producers and consumers under standard economic assumptions, as a problem of resource allocation in a multi-agent system in which there is no explicit communication among the agents.     

Asymmetric Nash equilibrium in emission rights auctions

This paper studies the problems of emission rights auctions, and presents a uniform price auction mechanism based on three assumptions, i.e., all buyers are asymmetric, every buyer submits a nonincreasing continuous demand function, and every buyer's valuation to per unit of the emission rights is common value information. It focuses on solving the asymmetric Nash equilibrium for this auction mechanism. It concludes that there exist multiple Nash equilibria in our auction mechanism, but the arbitrary low equilibrium prices cannot emerge. We also give several suggestions on how to induce the auction to a desired ideal equilibrium state in mechanism design of emission rights auctions.