Mobile Payment and Informal Business: Evidence from China's Household Panel Data

This paper uses household panel data to explore the impact of mobile payments on China's household business activity. Using a difference‐in‐difference fixed effect specification, I find that mobile payment users are more likely to operate small‐scale and self‐employed informal businesses. The impact of using mobile payment primarily derives from the transition of agricultural families to business owners and the development of informal businesses. The paper illustrates an associated increase in employment and income for family members, with more pronounced effects on low‐income and rural households. It also provides prima facie evidence of the increase in fund transfers, which is important for risk sharing that informal businesses may encounter.     

NTRU格上高效的身份基线性同态签名方案

针对现有的格上身份基线性同态签名方案密钥存储量大、结构复杂导致方案实际运行效率相对偏低的问题，提出了一个NTRU（Number Theory Research Unit）格上高效的身份基线性同态签名方案。首先在密钥生成阶段利用NTRU密钥生成算法产生主密钥，接着采用格基委派算法给出身份签名私钥，最后运行NTRU格上原像抽样算法产生出线性同态签名。对方案的安全性证明与性能分析结果表明，新方案满足正确性，具有弱内容隐私性。在随机预言机模型下，该方案在小整数解问题困难性条件下满足适应性选择身份和选择消息的存在性不可伪造性。同时，由于采用NTRU格的特殊结构，新方案在密钥量与运行效率方面与已有方案相比较均具有显著的优势，这对于计算资源受限环境的同态认证中具有重要的应用价值。     

浅析区块链技术对小微企业信用认证及融资的作用

随着经济社会的全面发展,经济全球化已经成为全新的发展趋势,紧随其后的是后金融危机时代的到来。区块链是一种特定的数据技术,它在安全和便捷方面一直被业内人士所看好。论文围绕区块链技术对小微企业信用认证及融资的作用展开讨论分析,通过讨论分析有助于实现小微企业成功融资,为我国小微企业提供强有力的保障与支撑。     

财务公司的风险管理与内部控制

财务公司是一类特殊的金融机构,既有风险内生性特点,也易受外部风险传导。在风险管理与内部控制上,要坚持业务发展与内部控制相平衡的原则,一方面要遵循普适性、规律性的银行业规则(巴塞尔协议),另一方面也要充分考虑所属集团的具体实际情况,服务于集团和财务公司战略目标的实现。     

Managing Technological,Sociopolitical, and Institutional Change in the New Normal

A New Normal environment for business has emerged in the years after the 2008 financial crisis based on numerous changes in the world's economic, technological, demographic, and sociopolitical factors. This combination of changes has created a New Normal environment for firms with major implications for managers, strategists, and entrepreneurs alike. It has resulted in an environment with new challenges and opportunities that are considerably different from what firms had to contend with in the years previous. In this paper, we present the main changes that characterize the current New Normal business environment and highlight some key implications for strategy and management. Then, we present the nine articles in this special issue dealing with different dimensions of this new environment for firms. Subsequently, we outline some future research questions that could help to advance our knowledge of the New Normal environment and its implications for firms and management theories. In examining the New Normal, it is important to be reminded that the world is indeed round and even small actions on one side of the globe can have a major impact on organizations on the other side of the globe.     

A Welfare-Based Analysis of International Monetary Policy Spillovers at the Zero Lower Bound

We study the welfare effects of international monetary policy spillovers at the zero lower bound, focusing on the effects of forward guidance in a large economy (“foreign”) on its smaller trading partner (“home”) in scenarios motivated by the global financial crisis. We find that foreign forward guidance has an overall prosper-thy-neighbor effect on the home economy as long as it increases foreign welfare. This finding holds under alternative assumptions about exchange rate pass-through or the degree of international financial integration. However, foreign forward guidance may worsen the trade-off between the stabilization objectives of home monetary policy.     

The impact of CSR satisfaction on destination loyalty: a study of MICE travelers in Thailand

The objectives of this research are firstly, to study the characteristics of CSR activities conducted for international business groups. Secondly, to analyze the factors that impact business travelers’ satisfaction with CSR activities, and thirdly, to analyze the influence of satisfaction with CSR activities on destination attachment and destination loyalty. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 127 business participants from three corporate meetings and one convention group. The results reveal the characteristics of CSR activities of corporate meetings and conventions in Thailand. Business travelers’ satisfaction with CSR activities is influenced by their personal altruistic attitudes and the efficacy of local service providers. Satisfaction with CSR activities has a direct impact on destination attachment and an indirect impact on destination loyalty. CSR activities could be used as tools to influence the revisit intention of corporate meeting and convention participants. A CSR activity during a business trip is a novel concept that can be utilized by destination management companies as well as national tourism organizations to develop satisfying tourism products.     

Earnings management of initial public offering firms: evidence from regulation changes in China

Discretionary current accruals of Chinese initial public offering (IPO) firms decreased after the abolition of fixed‐price offering systems that directly linked offering price to reported earnings. Results suggest IPO firms that decrease managerial ownership manage earnings upward during the fixed‐price offering period, but this relationship disappeared after the introduction of a book‐building system. We also find that bank debt is negatively related to discretionary current accruals during the fixed‐price offering period, but no relation exists for the book‐building period. Leverage has a significant positive relationship with earnings management. However, this finding is potentially attributable to nonoffering price objectives or endogeneity biases.     

基于平衡计分卡的银行系寿险公司绩效评价研究

随着金融混业经营趋势不断加强，2009年起中国的银行开始入股保险公司，且以建立寿险公司为主。为了能全面评价银行入股保险公司后的运营绩效，通过构建平衡计分卡模型，从各项评价指标和总绩效角度将银行系寿险公司与传统寿险公司进行比较，发现在三年的时间里，银行系寿险公司发展迅速，且综合绩效较好，相对于传统的中小型寿险公司，具有明显的优势和发展潜力，但与大型的寿险公司相比仍有一定的差距。     

中小服装企业网络营销探讨

文章分析了互联网时代给中小服装企业带来的机遇和挑战,探讨了中小服装企业网络营销存在的问题及对策。