海上保险人的共同海损赔偿责任辨析——中、英法律和条款之比较

共同海损与海上保险都是现代海商法中重要的法律制度,两者之间存在着密切的联系,现代海上保险合同无不把共同海损和救助列为承保责任。人们往往误以为共同海损理算结果和海上保险赔偿责任之间完全能划上等号。在对外贸易实务中,海上保险人出于保护自身利益的目的,在保险单中,对共同海损责任认定及共同海损赔偿计算都有特别规定。另外,与英国海上保险实践相比,中国《海商法》和海上保险条款的相关规定过于笼统,不利于实务操作。文章给出了相应的修改建议。     

中水集团的发展战略

此文主要介绍了中水（集团）总公司2001年及今后一个时期的工作重点,在明确了“三大两新战略”、“三步走的目标”和“四个着力点”的指导思想基础上,认真贯彻党的十五届四中、五中全会精神,进一步加快企业改革发展的步伐,提出了结构调整,机制转换、科技创新、强化管理等四项措施。     

Decision of the General Administration of Customs concerning Amending the Measures of the Customs of the People's Republic of China for the Supervision of Processing Trade Goods

For the purpose of adapting to the changes in processing trade and regularizing the relevant business of processing trade,the General Administration of Customs has decided to make the following amendments to the Measures of the Customs of the People's Republic of China for the Supervision of Processing Trade Goods (Decree No.13 of the General Administration of Customs,hereinafter referred to as the Measures):     

营业税改征增值税试点方案对港口企业的影响研究

2012年国家在上海等11个省市开展了交通运输业和部分现代服务业营业税改征增值税的试点工作,这一改革给港口企业一般纳税人的税负带来了影响,通过两种税负的比较分析,其因素包括税率偏高、可抵扣成本低等多个方面,应当采取扩大改革范围、给予企业过渡期补贴扶持、择机统一下调税率等措施。     

Reining in auditors: On the dynamics of power surrounding an “innovation” in the regulatory space

In the aftermath of Enron and the collapse of Arthur Andersen, new “independent” institutions were created to oversee financial auditing. Based on a modified version of Lukes’ multidimensional model of power, we first investigate how the creation of the Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB) has affected the dynamics of power among the main players enlisted in Canada’s regulation of public accounting. Our findings strengthen the view that a “form of allegiance” was, at the time of data collection, developing between CPAB and the largest Canadian accounting firms. Through a second analytical movement, we extend the boundaries of our argument, showing that patterns of resistance against the logic of arm’s length regulation operate in a variety of audit regulatory sites. Our conclusion points, in particular, to the spatial gap - and incidentally the limitations - of any attempt to control and supervise a globalized industry from a national or regional perspective.     

The effect of general counsel prominence on the pricing of audit services

We investigate the effect of corporate general counsel (GC) ascension to the senior management team on the pricing of audit services. Prior research suggests that the GC position may have a significant influence in setting the tone at the top by promoting corporate integrity, ethics, and serving as a governance and monitoring mechanism, but also recognizes that prominent GCs may face ethical dilemmas, causing them to disregard professional responsibilities to curry the favor of the CEO and other executives. Using audit fees to proxy for audit engagement risk, we find a negative association between GC ascension to top management and audit fees. We investigate the mechanisms behind this relation and find GC ascension is associated with a reduction in both default risk and financial misstatement risk, which supports auditors’ perceived reduction in client business risk and audit risk, respectively.     

Net share issues and the cross‐section of equity returns under a dividend imputation tax system

Despite considerable empirical evidence reporting a negative relationship between net share issuance and subsequent returns, it remains unresolved whether this anomaly is explained by risk or investor irrationality. This study examines the net share issuance anomaly using seasoned equity offerings before and after the introduction of an imputation tax system. We report robust evidence of a negative relationship between net share issuance and returns post‐imputation, but no relationship pre‐imputation. Our results provide evidence to support the international pervasiveness of the net share issuance anomaly, but more importantly suggest that this anomaly may be explained by risk.     

Stochastic volatility: A tale of co-jumps,non-normality,GMM and high frequency data

In this article we introduce a linear–quadratic volatility model with co-jumps and show how to calibrate this model to a rich dataset. We apply GMM and more specifically match the moments of realized power and multi-power variations, which are obtained from high-frequency stock market data. Our model incorporates two salient features: the setting of simultaneous jumps in both return process and volatility process and the superposition structure of a continuous linear–quadratic volatility process and a Lévy-driven Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. We compare the quality of fit for several models, and show that our model outperforms the conventional jump diffusion or Bates model. Besides that, we find evidence that the jump sizes are not normally distributed and that our model performs best when the distribution of jump-sizes is only specified through certain (co-) moment conditions. Monte Carlo experiments are employed to confirm this.     

税法总则立法的基本问题探讨——兼论《税法典》编纂

当前我国税收立法正在加快推进,单行税法有望近几年全面完成立法。制定单行税法只是落实税收法定原则的第一步,为了发挥税收在国家治理中的基础性、支柱性和保障性作用,呼应《民法典》的编纂实施,提高税收法律的体系化和科学化,实现税收治理法治化,有必要尽快制定对单行税法起统领作用的税法总则,并在此基础上编纂《税法典》。税法总则是税收领域的基本法、总则法、平衡法和总则编,应当处理好与《宪法》、财政法、行政法总则、《民法典》和《税收征管法》等法律的协调关系,以法律关系为主线确定立法架构,着力破解税收领域的基础性法律难题。要按照"两步走"的思路,汇聚万众智慧,吸纳中外法典精华,努力编纂一部展现我国智慧、体现时代特征、在国际上具有示范效应的《税法典》。