‘Doing-good’ and ‘doing-well’ in Chinese publicly listed firms

Recently, the presumed benefits of corporate social responsibility have become an important issue, especially for China where institutional settings are quite different from other parts of the world. Using an internationally accepted benchmark (OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance, OECD, 2004), this study constructs a corporate social responsibility (CSR) index to measure the quality of the corporate social responsibility practices of the 100 major Chinese listed firms during 2004–2007. This enables us to evaluate the progress of the corporate social responsibility practices of Chinese firms. The results show that Chinese companies have been making progress in their corporate social responsibility practices. The findings also show that market rewards Chinese firms for improving their corporate governance practices which implies ‘doing-good’ leads to ‘doing-well’ in the equity market in China. We also find that overseas-listed and more profitable Chinese firms have better improvement in CSR practice. This study has policy implications in pushing for further CSR initiatives in other emerging markets.     

Economic Development and the State: Lessons from Singapore

Analysis and case studies have indicated that intervention by the Singapore government in fostering economic development has not always been successful. In particular, past intervention in the labour market like the high wage policy of the early 3980s has proved to be an unmitigated disaster. However, interventions that lead to the direct creation of national competitive advantage, like the information-telecommunications infrastructure, R & D subsidy and manpower development, have proved t o be more successful. A strong, non-corrupt and market-oriented public sector appears to be crucial t o ensure that interventions are market facilitating, correcting and enhancing rather than distorting.     

Pricing Annuity Guarantees Under a Regime-Switching Model

Abstract

We consider the pricing problem of equity-linked annuities and variable annuities under a regimeswitching model when the dynamic of the market value of a reference asset is driven by a generalized geometric Brownian motion model with regime switching. In particular, we assume that regime switching over time according to a continuous-time Markov chain with a finite number state space representing economy states. We use the Esscher transform to determine an equivalent martingale measure for fair valuation in the incomplete market setting. The paper is complemented with some numerical examples to highlight the implications of our model on pricing these guarantees.     

合作学习在职前外语教育实践中的应用

鉴于我国英语课堂教学面临的普遍问题,通过分析职前教师受传统经验的影响,提出将合作学习理论与职前外语教师实习相结合,研究真实情境下合作学习对于教学活动的影响,为师范生提供动态的教学环境。     

V5接口的测试方法

本文道德简要介绍了Ｖ５接口的基本发展情况，以及各种测试方法和测试类型。然后详细论述了Ｖ５接口协议的一致性测试，并以检测ＨＶ５ＰＣ系统为例，深入讨论这种测试方法的原理。     

共同会计价值观导向下的全球财务报告教育与研究——以美国为例

本文从考察全球财务报告与美国公认会计原则(GAAP)的关系入手,讨论了全球财务报告课程中应涵盖的内容以及业界对财务报告普遍存在的一些误解。探讨了会计理论研究如何发挥对准则制定的指导作用,以及为什么理论研究能对准则制定有重要指导作用,在此基础上,提出了与国际会计准则理事会的技术议程以及与财务报告全球化相关的研究课题。     

《航空电气》任务驱动型教材编写的研究

本文以《航空电气》任务驱动型校本教材的开发为例,对任务驱动型教材编写的流程进行了探讨,并且提出了不足和展望。     

国际货币体系改革——金融危机后的思考

美国次贷危机引发的全球金融危机,使现行国际货币体系—牙买加体系的缺陷进一步暴露出来:美元本位制放纵了美国的过度消费,国际资本流动缺乏监管以及不稳定的汇率体系加剧了危机蔓延。虽然对国际货币体系的改革面临美元霸权、改革成本高等方面的阻碍,但改革现行的IMF以及扩展国际救助范围,加强金融监管力度已然成为改革方向。     

建筑工程概预算存在的问题及对策

建筑工程概预算在工程中起着至关重要的作用。然而,我国现阶段建筑工程概预算却存在着工程概预算编制粗糙、项目招投标不够规范,项目管理相对混乱和施工图纸实用性差的问题,应该优化设计方案、细致编写工程概预算,规范招投标工作,完善工程概预算管理,科学设计工程图纸,并加大政府监管力度。     

2013年上半年就业形势分析

本文探讨2013年上半年的就业形势及主要特征,并对下半年的就业形势影响因素进行了分析且做出预计判断,最后对下半年的就业工作提出了针对性的政策建议。