我国对外开放与收入差距:基于地区和行业的考察

随着我国对外开放程度的加深,地区和行业之间的收入差距拉大问题日益凸显。对外和开放和收入差距是否存在某种因果关系,以及它们之间的作用机制是本文的主题。研究表明:对外开放与地区和行业收入差距存在单向格兰杰因果关系,前者在提高各地区各行业平均收入的同时,由于其影响的强度差异而相对地拉大了我国地区和行业之间的收入差距。     

中国金融状况指数的构建

本文介绍与分析了金融状况指数(FCI)的定义及作用,并根据中国的实际情况构建了中国的FCI,对其波动的原因进行了解释。通过对FCI与GDP增长率关系以及FCI对CPI预测能力的检验发现,在样本期內PCI与CDP增长率走势较吻合,且FCI对CPI有较强的预测能力。因此,本文认为,FCI可以作为中国货币政策的一个重要的参考指标。     

民国会计教育研究

我国古代传统的会计教育是以账房师傅手把手教徒弟,一代传一代的方式进行的,且每个人记账的方式都大有不同,直至晚清之前,中国的会计教育是不成系统的。随着西方会计科学的传入和我国第一批留学归来的会计学者的推广,晚清时期,学堂的商科会计教育已经具备现代会计教育的雏形。在改良中式账簿与完全引进西方会计科学的激烈讨论中,中华民国时期的会计教育正式走向正轨,也可以说,中国系统的现代意义上的会计教育是从中华民国开始的,而民国早期与后期又有不同。本文将根据中国会计教育发展的时间轴线,对中国古代会计教育与晚清商科会计教育作一梳理,并着重研究中华民国时期的会计教育,并从官办会计教育与民间会计教育两个方面来考量。     

Want to make me emotional? The influence of emotional advertisements on women’s consumption behavior

A wide difference of opinion exists about the content and composition of emotions. Advertising may influence an audience and their buying decisions about products and services. The objective of this study is to better conceptualize how women emotionally respond to emotional advertisements (EAs). The variant views are integrated into an ACE model, composed of subordinate levels of emotions (E), celebrity endorsements (C), and appeal drivers (A). This empirical study examines women’s emotional response using data from 240 Chinese women respondents. The study participants were invited to develop ACE mix based advertisements and fill out questionnaires. PLS-SEM analysis, a novel approach in ACE advertisement development and its applicability to consumer behavior, was used. The results show that showbiz celebrities expressing the emotion of happiness with music and color make the most effective ACE mix to influence the consumption behavior of women. The results are significantly mediated by attention levels and are widely applicable in the burgeoning advertising industry. The study also calls for further research with different ACE mixes in different contexts and on different audiences. It also opens doors for policy making and an appropriate understanding of women’s consumption behavior in the Chinese context.     

非均匀天线组阵中引入对角加载的合成算法

针对非均匀天线组阵中常用的SUMPLE与PMFM（Proposed Matrix-Free Method）算法合成性能较差的问题,分别在SUMPLE与PMFM算法模型中引入对角加载技术,提出了一种新的信号合成算法。该算法利用权值幅度估计各路噪声功率,并对角加载到权值迭代算法中以得到准最优复权值向量。理论分析与数值仿真均表明,在不明显增加计算量的基础上,新算法在非均匀组阵中的合成损失明显低于SUMPLE与PMFM算法,同时新算法的收敛速度也与各自模型算法相当,因此更加适用于实际组阵系统,具有重要的工程应用价值。     

Product differentiation under imperfect information: When does offering a lower quality pay?

In this paper, we extend the Varian (1980) model to examine endogenous quality differentiation by firms, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between the firms’ product quality decisions and the ensuing price rivalry. Specifically, we assume that the price-sensitive (or informed) consumers hold a lower valuation for product quality than the brand-loyal (or uninformed) consumers. It is shown that the firms will choose differentiated qualities for a broad class of consumer utility functions and production technologies. We obtain two results. First, the equilibrium quality choices are efficient as they are also the welfare-maximizing qualities chosen by a social planner. The equilibrium qualities are as if one firm serves only its loyal consumers and the other serves only the price-sensitive consumers, even though they each serve both types of consumers (at least for some fraction of time). Second, the firm choosing the lower quality makes greater profits and also prices more aggressively, in the sense that it maintains a lower maximum price and offers discounts more often. The lower-quality product is more profitable because it yields higher social surplus when consumed by the price-sensitive consumers.

中国知识产权保护现状、问题及对策

知识产权的保护对于促进技术进步、文化繁荣和经济发展都具有重要的意义和作用。由于中国企业及个人对于知识产权保护意识不强，制度不够完善，导致近年来特别是加入WTO以来发生了大量的知识产权诉讼案件。本文从主要行业叙述了知识产权保护的现状及问题，并从政府、企业及社会主体等方面提出了相应对策。     

Dealer spread and portfolio selection under price risks: evidence from the gold service industry

The bid and ask quotes as well as portfolio selection decisions of gold dealers who face a gold price risk are investigated within a continuous-time framework. The research integrates into a systematic analysis the decision of asset allocation in financial economics as well as the decision of a bid–ask spread in a market microstructure. The holding rate of gold is correlated to the intensity and jump size of the Poisson process, which is a hedging demand for gold assets against the risk of extreme events. According to empirical analysis from the gold service industries, the gold spread return is related to the expected return, volatility and jump risks of gold prices.     

Corruption and FDI: Does the Use of Distinct Proxies for Corruption Matter?

Abstract

The relationship between FDI and corruption/institutional quality in host countries has been widely analyzed. However, the use of distinct samples and indicators for corruption tends to hinder the interpretation and outcomes of econometric assessments. The aims of this paper are to assess the extent to which the use of distinct proxies for corruption provides diverse evidence regarding the relationship between corruption and FDI, and to assess whether controlling for other indicators of institutional quality reinforces the effect of corruption indicators on FDI inflows. In order to accomplish these goals, we estimate a set of multivariate logistic models using 96 countries over the period 2000 to 2010. The results evidence that using distinct proxies for corruption variables, as well as controlling for other types of the countries’ institutional quality, generate distinct outcomes. In isolation, a country’s transparency and its citizens’ corruption perceptions fail to impact on FDI whereas a bribe-free environment is conducive to FDI inflows. When we control for the human, social and economic development of the countries, the impact of a transparent and bribe-free context on FDI attraction is enhanced. Overall, it is clear that in order to become a large recipient of FDI a country has to guarantee a transparent and bribe-free environment, characterized by low income taxes, high literacy rates and generalized economic freedom (own labor and property control by citizens).     

Governing business process offshoring: Properties,processes, and preferred modes

This article examines an important yet understudied issue—the governance mode for business process offshoring (BPO). By applying transaction cost economics and organizational control perspective in the global BPO context, we suggest that BPO's governance mode (foreign captive, joint venture, and independent vendor) is determined by task features, such as knowledge specialization, information security, and process codifiability, and by needed process integration, horizontally between departments and units within the provider and vertically between the provider and its global client and its local subcontractor. Findings from our analysis of 308 global BPO units in India and China confirm our hypotheses.