融资约束下财务柔性对公司信用风险的作用机理

首先从理论层面探讨了在融资约束下财务柔性对公司信用风险的作用机理,提出了"财务柔性缓冲"的概念;然后使用2009—2012年中国A股非金融类上市公司的数据,实证检验了财务柔性对企业信用风险的缓冲作用。研究结果显示:财务柔性对缓冲企业的信用风险具有积极作用,且这种效应与企业所受的融资约束程度密切相关。指出:在后金融危机时期,融资受限的中国企业可通过提高财务柔性持续有效地降低其信用风险。     

我国省域视角下经济增长方式的实证分析与对策——基于 1990-2012 年数据

经济发展方式转变是我国现阶段经济发展的必然选择,也是经济增长与自然、社会、人的全面发展相协调的客观要求。我国28个省（市、自治区）1990---2012年数据显示：我国经济增长呈粗放型发展;投资拉动和工业化是经济发展主要依靠,第三产业带动作用不强,人力资本的外溢效应不明显,技术具有正向作用,但科技资本存量的产出弹性较小．,外资和出口具有拉动作用;东部经济增长受出口拉动最为显著但受外资企业出口影响而削弱,合适的政府规模才有利于经济发展和增长。因此,未来我国应在人力资本、新型工业化、转变政府职能、均衡发挥内外生因素等方面转变和加强。     

Tax competition in federations revisited

We extend Keen and Kotsogiannis (2002, 2004) by considering all-purpose public goods that are beneficial to both producers and consumers. Horizontal externality (resp. vertical externality) exerted by tax competition will not necessarily lead to inefficient outcomes.     

Entry,reputation and intellectual property rights enforcement

We examine how reputation concerns induce a multinational to partly withhold its entry into a developing country under weak intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement. Equilibrium IPR violations are shown to arise only in the presence of such concerns. Holding constant a multinational's incentive to innovate, better IPR enforcement encourages entry but reduces social welfare. The multinational's incentive to innovate may be inversely U‐shaped in the strength of IPR enforcement. If timed properly, however, stronger IPR enforcement can foster innovation without compromising social welfare. Testable implications concerning observable IPR violations are derived.     

Do customers respond to the disclosure of internal control weakness?

In this study, we investigate the effects of firms' internal control weakness (ICW) disclosures on their customers. We hypothesize that ICW disclosure adversely affects customers' perceptions of firms' ability and incentive to honor implicit commitments to customers, and as such, customers are less willing to buy from such firms. We thus expect a decline in firms' sales growth after ICW disclosure. We find a significant decline in sales growth subsequent to Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Section 404 ICW disclosure after controlling for firms' past sales growth and other factors affecting sales performance and internal control. This result is robust to the consideration of selection bias in ICW disclosure. We also find that the decline is more pronounced for firms with company-level ICW disclosure, with industrial customers, in the durable goods industries, with high research and development (R&D) intensity, or without subsequent remediation of ICW. Taken together, these results are consistent with the argument that ICW concerns customers more when the implicit contracts between the firms and their customers are more intensive.     

The Development and Regulation of China's Insurance Market: History and Perspectives

China's private insurance market has been developing rapidly since the 1980s. Regulation of the market has developed in tandem with its growth. This article provides a systematic overview of China's insurance regulatory system and the evolving process of insurance supervision and regulation. The nature and direction of regulatory changes are evaluated in light of theories of public reform and the special character of China among developing economies.     

An Estimation of the Intergenerational Income Elasticity of China

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Using 1989–2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey data, we estimate the intergenerational income elasticity (IIE) of China. We find that the lower bound of the IIE is 0.491 using the son’s latest observed income and his father’s income averaged over three periods. We use the father’s number of years of education as an instrumental variable for his permanent income to derive the upper bound of the IIE, which is 0.556. We find that the intergenerational income mobility of rural China is higher than that in urban areas.     

我国公立高校法人内部治理结构的困境及完善途径——基于教育部核准的六所高校章程的分析

党的十八届三中全会明确提出全面深化改革、建立事业单位法人治理结构的工作目标。文章分析了公立高等院校作为事业单位和公益二类结构的特殊属性、内部治理结构存在的问题,在分析教育部首批核准的六所大学章程的亮点和存在的问题的基础上,探索如何完善公立高校法人治理结构。     

国际个人数据信息保护立法及对我国的启示

保护数据主体的合法权益是征信立法的核心内容。本文对国外个人数据信息保护立法进行了梳理,并探讨了欧美个人数据保护体制。通过借鉴这些国际经验和做法,为我国个人数据信息保护立法提供参考。     

财政性存款对基础货币影响研究--基于中央银行资产负债表的实证分析

根据中央银行资产负债表,财政性存款是中央银行的负债,是基础货币的减项,因此财政性存款特别是国库现金对基础货币的投放或者回笼具有反向影响。本文对分税制改革和国库集中收付改革分别设置虚拟变量,实证分析了财政性存款对基础货币的影响关系。实证结果表明,1994年前财政性存款对基础货币影响较小,分税制后影响大幅提高。但2001年国库集中收付制度改革后,虽然规范了财政资金管理、加快资金流动,但另一方面也带来人行国库与财政国库并存的问题,使得财政性存款对基础货币的“吸储”作用减小。本文认为：人民银行经理国库体制和财政性存款缴存制度共同作用下,财政性存款发挥基础货币回笼作用;财政体制变化等长期制度性因素在财政性存款对基础货币影响中发挥更为明显的作用;财政性存款是非常敏感的指示器,对现行货币政策具有重要意义。