基于企业生命周期的财务控制体系设计

财务控制是企业财务管理的核心环节,控制的核心是控制体系的设计。企业在不同的发展阶段应采取不同的财务控制制度。文中将企业生命周期纳入财务控制体系设计中,从企业生命周期的新视角构建企业的财务控制体系,以期为我国处于不同生命周期的企业在构造财务控制体系时提供借鉴。     

Are microfinance institutions resilient to economic slowdown? Evidence from their capital ratio adjustment over the business cycle

Prior studies using pre-crisis data concluded that microfinance institutions are resilient to economic crises. However, some recent studies indicate that the microfinance sector is becoming part of the global financial system and microfinance lending activities are now vulnerable to economic and financial crises. Capital being a key resource to support lending, this paper analyzes the cyclical behaviour of capital ratio using an international sample of microfinance institutions from 2001 to 2014. We uncover a negative relationship between their capital-to-assets ratios and business cycle indicators. This relationship mainly concerns regulated institutions, comprised mostly of profit-oriented MFIs, and is driven by both asset-side and capital level adjustments. We identify the lending channel (loan-to-assets ratio) as the main mechanism to explain these cyclical variations. Our findings are consistent with the “procyclicality” of capital regulation documented extensively in the banking literature. Hence, macro-prudential regulation for MFIs should target regulated and profit-oriented MFIs.     

资源型产业升级的创新驱动研究--以中西部地区为例

新的结构发展期,加快资源型产业升级对经济可持续和高质量发展至关重要。将可耗竭资源因素引入有关产业结构和技术创新的理论模型中,分析技术创新对资源型产业转型升级的作用机理。将地区产业划分为资源型产业和创新型产业,借助夹角余弦的思想构建资源型产业升级的动态指标,利用2005-2016年间中西部地区17个省、市、自治区(西藏除外)面板数据进行计量分析。结果显示:技术创新是资源型产业升级的内生驱动力,而政府的调节效应却因资源型产业发展阶段的不同而不同。为此,需根据资源型产业的发展阶段,制定适宜的转型升级策略。对处于成熟期的资源型产业,宜借助政府的政策引导和调节作用,激励企业向非资源型产业发展。对处于衰竭期的资源型产业,则要更加注重创新技术的培育和应用转化。     

基于STR模型的中国宏观经济 周期拐点的识别与预测

本文应用平滑转换模型（STR）对我国经济周期的运行特点及拐点识别进行深入研究,并成功识别出经济周期拐点。研究发现我国GDP机制转换发生在自身滞后1期,增长率96%是扩张与收缩的临界点;固定投资机制转换发生在自身的滞后4期,增长率19%是扩张与收缩的临界点;固定资产投资对GDP的拉动效应具有较为缓慢的调整特征和滞后效应,机制转换发生在固定资产投资的滞后2期。     

物料流量会计的深化——利用MFCA与LCA的整合评估外部损害成本

物料流量成本会计(MFCA)是一种环境管理会计运用工具,也是企业高级管理人员和现场生产经理制定决定的一种工具.MFCA通过减少废弃物来实现提高生产能力的目标.MFCA衡量了材料的物量和存量信息,即在生产过程中的原材料、备品备件以物流和货币的单位表示出来,将MFCA与生命周期评价(LCA)整合,以此来评估外部损害成本.     

Synchronization and diversity in business cycles: a network analysis of the European Union

In this article, we use a correlation matrix and its internal networks to analyse business cycle synchronization across Europe since 2000. This methodology allows us to summarize individual country interactions and co-movements while also capturing the existing heterogeneity of connectivity within the European economic system. Our results indicate that synchronization of the euro zone countries remained stable from 1999 until the current financial crisis, after which co-movements increased sharply and synchronization rose to the highest in the time sample. By endogenously identifying clusters of countries with close connections in their business cycle, we also refute the commonly accepted notion of identifiable core and peripheral euro zone countries.     

The role of global financial conditions for credit supply in EMU periphery countries

The article analyses the role of global financial conditions for credit supply and growth performance in individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU). In line with the risk-taking channel of monetary policy, we find that in the short run, the Fed and European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate policy compensate for changes in global risk assessment thereby supporting net private credit flows to the European periphery. However, in later periods, a worsened risk sentiment weighs on credit flows to these countries. In contrast, EMU core countries are generally less affected by global financial shocks. This asymmetric influence of global conditions on EMU member states are smoothed by the uniform access of commercial banks to the Eurosystem’s open market operations in conjunction with the redistribution of liquidity via the TARGET mechanism.     

Is there life after degeneration? The organizational life cycle of cooperatives under a ‘grow‐or‐die’ dichotomy

This article provides an in‐depth, longitudinal analysis combining real‐time and retrospective data on a set of Mondragon's industrial cooperatives that are organized as international groups. We examine the life cycle of these international cooperative groups, which is expected to evolve differently to that of small‐ and medium‐sized cooperatives that operate exclusively on a local scale. The article is theoretically informed by the cooperative life cycle theory, as well as by recent insights from the degeneration and regeneration theses. Our analysis yields an intricate picture of the evolution of cooperatives faced with a ‘grow‐or‐die’ dichotomy. On the one hand, our findings reject the highly simplistic and deterministic view of the degeneration thesis by demonstrating that these cooperatives can mobilize resources to revitalize cooperative values and practices. On the other, we find that regeneration may not occur in a consistent, sequential fashion as the previous literature suggests, but rather degenerative and regenerative tendencies can occur simultaneously, even leading to long‐lasting, unresolvable situations. In light of this, the article asks future research to draw on power‐aware and politically informed approaches for further understanding of how cooperatives manage the tensions at each organizational stage of their life cycle, and of which organizational actors benefit, and how, from reversing some degenerative tendencies while maintaining others intact.     

基于LCA的城市绿地管养对环境影响的量化方法探讨

城市绿地是重要的绿色基础设施。城市绿地要实现设计目标,保持长久的景观效果离不开持续不断地养护管理,同时管养工作又会带来物资消耗和废弃物排放,对环境造成负面影响。基于生命周期评价方法(LCA),以资源能源消耗和气候变暖潜值作为对环境影响的主要因子,将城市绿地划分为乔木、灌木、地被和草坪层,建立了管养对环境影响的量化模型。以郑州市郑东新区绿地为研究对象,选取34个植物群落(20m×20m)为样本进行了验证,计算得到各植物层管养资源能源消耗和气候变暖潜值特征量以及管养工作标准化加权环境影响指数。结果表明,乔木的管养环境影响指数最低,比群落均值低32%;施肥和垃圾清运是环境影响的主要因素,占群落管养环境影响指数均值的75%以上;与农林业相比,城市绿地管养环境影响指数处中低水平,但资源能源消耗因子的影响指数偏高。基于LCA方法的研究结果可以为城市绿地设计和精细化管理提供量化参考。     

The effects of risk aversion on life insurance ownership of single-parent households

This study investigates the effect of risk aversion of single-parent households with at least one child under 18 on life insurance ownership. Analysing the 1992–2013 Survey of Consumer Finances datasets, we found that the likelihood of owning term life insurance decreases as risk aversion increases, but the likelihood of owning cash-value life insurance increases as risk aversion increases. Smokers were less likely to own term life insurance but more likely to own cash-value life insurance than comparable non-smokers.