国内企业最易操作的激励模式:虚拟股票

虚拟股票是一种以收益分享和价值分享为指导思想的激励手段,一般由企业安排专项基金,免费为激励对象发放若干虚拟的“股票”,激励对象根据所拥有的“股权”享受相应的价值、分红权或股价升值收益.虚拟股票不会影响公司的股权结构,操作非常方便,不仅具有长期激励的效果,同时还克服了期股和期权等其他激励理论的缺点和实际运用中的不足.     

Services and functions provided by European city tourist offices: a longitudinal study

Tourism has become a major source of employment, revenue, international awareness and opportunity in European cities. As competition among European cities grows, the efficiency of management in city tourism organisations (CTOs) becomes increasingly important. This article reports on a longitudinal study of 50 European CTOs over the 4‐year period from 1995 to 1999. The aim of the study is to examine the changes in functions provided by European CTOs during the given period of time. Findings reveal that five identifiable function categories can characterise the changes that happened during the given period of time: hotel booking service, commerce, conventional information dissemination, advanced information product and relationship management. It is argued that information technology and role change are the main driving forces of these changes. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

从《二马》看老舍早年的人生观

长篇小说《二马》以不同的人物形象,通过中外文化的比较,揭示了中华民族“官本位”的危害,发出了“打破官迷”的强劲呼声,展示了其独特的人生观。老舍正是以此目标走完了自己的人生路,为中国的有出息耗尽了最后的心血。这一理念不仅在当时意义重大。在今天仍有着不容忽视的价值。     

Less is more: A theory of minimalist luxury

We show theoretically that when high-quality, low-price counterfeits exist and are visibly indistinguishable from authentic products, the status-seeking wealthy may embrace a “less is more” purchasing strategy or what we refer to as the minimalist luxury strategy, to signal their status. These are the wealthy who have a high disutility of shopping for counterfeits. Specifically, in our model, only buyers know the authenticity of their own purchases. Because of this information asymmetry, these wealthy buyers may purposefully restrain from consuming luxury goods as a sacrifice of functional utility to stand out, a signaling strategy that the rest are not willing to mimic. Thus, “less” functional utility allows those status-seeking wealthy to enjoy “more” symbolic utility that the society bestows on their perceived status. This minimalist luxury strategy is in sharp contrast to Veblen's conspicuous consumption strategy, as well as to the maximalist luxury strategy proposed by Liu et al. We derive this minimalist luxury equilibrium, discuss how signaling in our context can differ from that of Veblen and Liu et al., and explore its managerial implications for the luxury goods industry.     

Early Birds versus Just-in-Timers: The effect of procrastination on academic performance of accounting students

This study investigates the effect of procrastination on academic performance. Prior research has often relied upon self-reported measures of procrastination, which are only weakly correlated with actual procrastination. We use the start and submission of a set of online homework problems as two objective, direct measures of student procrastination and the grade on the assignments as a measure of performance. In our study, there were a number of potential benefits to submitting online assignments ‘just-in-time’. Thus, there was a direct benefit to procrastination, which students had to weigh against potential drawbacks. With a sample size larger than those previously reported in the literature, we find that for both procrastination measures, task procrastination is associated with lower task performance. To ensure that our results are not just an association between performance and student quality, we test for the association between task procrastination and task performance, while controlling for student quality. We find that even after controlling for student quality, task procrastination is associated with lower task performance.     

完善我国最后贷款人法律制度的思考——金融危机中美联储"最后贷款人"职能行使的借鉴

本文从分析金融危机对美国最后贷款人法律制度影响入手,全面论述了美联储在金融危机中行使最后贷款人职能的基本做法,深入分析了我国最后贷款人法律制度的现状与缺失,对完善我国最后贷款人法律制度从科学界定最后贷款人的法律地位、逐步完善最后贷款人的法律法规、积极实施"模糊"与"透明"相结合的救助规则、注重加强中央银行与监管机构的合作与协调、建立健全被援金融机构的破产机制、切实强化最后贷款人的法律责任等方面进行了初步探讨.     

中国分红保险的机理与制度框架

分红政策在分红保险的经营和监管中始终发挥着核心作用。不论分红保险采用何种模式,分红政策都应当遵循一定的原则:既重视保单持有人的合理预期,贯彻诚信经营和红利分配的公平原则,又要充分考虑红利分配对公司未来红利水平、投资策略以及偿付能力的影响。为了实现分红保险的这些原则,必须辅以有效的工具,其中分红特别储备是实现这些目的的本质、核心和关键。本文以此为基础,阐述了分红保险的管理机制和报告制度。     

创新我国企业年金监管制度——基于对全球金融危机的反思

在金融混业经营背景下,如何创新我国企业年金监管的制度安排,以便加强对企业年金委托—代理链条上的风险点的监管,克服市场失灵,防止出现多米诺骨牌效应,降低国家社会保障的系统风险?笔者利用制度经济学等理论分析了我国企业年金监管制度,在反思美国金融混业背景下的企业年金监管制度的基础上,从制度框架和监管机制两个方面提出创新中国企业年金监管制度安排的对策建议。     

充分发挥农业政策性金融作用积极推进农业农村经济平稳较快发展

文章研究农业政策性金融与农村经济发展问题。     

国际能源价格走势及其对我国经济的影响

作为国际能源价格标杆的国际油价演变大致分为四个时期,一是第一次石油危机前的极低油价时期,二是第一次石油危机到本世纪初的低油价时期,三是本世纪初以来的油价转换期,目前正逐步走向第四个时期——高油价时期。高价能源时代的迫近对我国经济形成多重压力：物价持续上涨压力,产业结构调整压力,发展模式转换压力,涉外经济转轨压力,社会福利下降压力。应对高价能源挑战必须立足经济社会发展全局高度,对能源与经济社会协调发展进行战略谋划,实行科学的可持续的能源战略。