论农业保险带来的保险结构调整与创新

目前中央政府致力于经济反哺农业,建立农业支持保护体系,出台一系列建立社会主义新农村的政策措施,这为建立具有中国特色的农业保险模式带来了历史性机遇。农业保险具有政策性与制度性特征,从国际经验来看,农业保险大都采取了政策性扶持加市场化运作的模式。中国农业保险也需要建立制度性和政策性模式,但由于中国作为发展中国家的国情,完全财政包办模式是难以为继的。因此,建立以政策为主导、多主体、多元化的农业保险模式是中国农业保险必然的选择。在不违背其商业目标的同时,商业保险在农业保险模式建立过程中应充分发挥其作用和职能,同时也面临市场发展、结构调整和业务创新的三大历史性机遇。     

企业改制过程中档案管理存在的问题和建议

企业档案是企业在长期生产经营过程中形成的历史资料,对企业发展具有重要的作用。企业改制时由于长期忽视档案管理,使企业档案数量多,占据空间大,处于一种自由整理状态,不规范,基础设施差,流失严重。改制时要成立专门领导机构,加大宣传力度,采取有效措施,依据《档案法》对企业档案进行收集、整理、安置,使多年宝贵资料安全保存下来,更好地为社会服务。     

有激情的员工更能创新吗

员工创新绩效是衡量企业创新能力的重要标准。以创造力交互作用观为理论框架,从认知视角考察员工和谐型激情通过创造力自我效能感对创新绩效的作用机制及相应的情境机制。对492份问卷分析发现：和谐型激情对员工创新绩效有正向预测作用;创造力自我效能感中介了和谐型激情与创新绩效的关系;创新氛围感知既调节了和谐型激情与创造力自我效能感的关系,又调节了创造力自我效能感在和谐型激情与创新绩效之间的中介作用。研究结果揭示了员工情感与认知对提高创新绩效的重要意义。     

基于共生理论福建省乡村旅游综合体构建研究

针对福建省乡村旅游目前发展中存在的问题,如何提升乡村旅游的综合效益显得尤为重要。鉴于此,文章基于共生理论的视角,将乡村旅游综合体作为乡村旅游的发展方向,提出建立共生机制,通过完善环境诱导机制,强化动力机制,减缓阻尼机制,来构建乡村旅游综合体,促进各共生单元的合作发展,形成乡村旅游综合体互惠共生一体化模式,并最终提升乡村旅游的综合效益。     

Blockholder Exit Threats and Financial Reporting Quality

Recent theoretical and empirical studies suggest that blockholders (shareholders with ownership ≥ 5 percent) exert governance through the threat of exit. Blockholders have strong incentives to gather private information and sell their shares when managers are perceived to underperform. To prevent blockholders from selling their shares and the firm from suffering a stock price decline, managers align their actions with the interests of shareholders. As a result of the greater manager‐shareholder alignment, managers' actions are more likely to be in shareholders' best interest, and consequently there is less need for managers to manipulate earnings. Consistent with these predictions from economic theory, we find evidence that as exit threat increases, firms have higher financial reporting quality. Theory also predicts that the impact of blockholders' exit threat on financial reporting quality (FRQ) should increase as the manager's wealth is tied more closely to the stock price, and this is what we find. Our study contributes to the research on the impact of shareholders on FRQ and to an emerging literature on the impact of blockholders in financial markets. Blockholders play an important role in managers' reporting outcomes through their actions as informed investors.     

Do Analysts Matter for Corporate Tax Planning? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

We exploit an exogenous shock to analyst coverage as a result of brokerage house mergers and closures to examine whether financial analysts influence the tax‐planning activities of the firms they cover. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, we find that, on average, firms affected by broker mergers and/or closures experience a reduction in their GAAP (cash) effective tax rates (ETR) of 2.5 percent (2.6 percent), relative to control firms, translating into average tax expense (cash tax) savings of $34 ($35) million. The treatment effect is more pronounced among firms with lower pre‐event analyst coverage. To explore how analysts affect tax planning, we further document that the treatment effect is greater among firms that lose an analyst who provided an implied ETR forecast in the past, suggesting that analysts influence tax planning via their tax‐specific research efforts. In addition, we find that after merger/closure, weakly governed firms increase their use of aggressive tax strategies, and financially distressed firms experience a larger reduction of cash effective tax rates, relative to control firms. Overall, we provide evidence that a shock to analyst coverage sufficiently changes the cost‐benefit trade‐off of tax planning.     

Age heaping and numeracy: looking behind the curtain

Age‐heaping‐based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially for periods where other indicators are unavailable. However, the accuracy of individual age statements usually remains unknown, and due to the lack of precise information it can only be assumed that excessive occurrence of multiples of five in age distributions reflects inferior numerical skills. This article addresses this lacuna by identifying 162 individuals in two independent data sources: self‐reported age statements and independently kept records which are based on family heritage books and church registers. This method makes it possible to identify individual misreporting and the degree of accuracy of each individual. Findings show that not everyone who reported a multiple of five was reporting an incorrect age, nor was it the case that everyone who reported an age that was not a multiple of five was reporting an accurate age. The empirical analysis shows that the commonly used binary numeracy indicator is correlated with the observed degree of accuracy in age statements, and that a more sophisticated occupational background reduces this inaccuracy. These results tentatively suggest that the commonly used binary indicator measuring age heaping is a valuable proxy for numerical skills and occupational background in a population.     

韩国总统文在寅来渝访问 “大韩民国临时政府是我们的根,是我们的精神所在。”

正2017年12月16日,韩国总统文在寅一行访问重庆。一天时间,他参观大韩民国临时政府旧址陈列馆,探寻中韩在渝共同抗击日寇的历史足迹,出席中韩产业合作重庆论坛,参观考察北京现代重庆工厂,为中韩经贸合作加油鼓劲。位于渝中区七星岗莲花池38号的大韩民国临时政府旧址陈列馆,是目前中国境内规模最大的涉朝鲜半岛遗址地。1940年至1945年,著名韩国独立运动家金九领导韩国临时政府在这里开展民族独立运     

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