Market entry and international propagation of business cycles

In this paper, pro-cyclical market entry acts as an international transmission mechanism for business cycle shocks. In an imperfectly competitive dynamic equilibrium model, an expansion in one open economy leads to additional business formation in a parallel large open economy through demand spillovers. Business formation causes a decline in markups leading to an expansion in employment, production, and investment in both economies. The modeling of the entry decision is critical. Only when the entry game is modelled as sequential (with incumbents enjoying a first mover advantage) are markups sufficiently elastic to cause international comovement.     

现行高校电子商务教材出版的困境分析及对策探讨

作为经济管理类专业必修的一门课程,《电子商务概论》的学科内容体系并不健全,没有一本相对权威的《电子商务概论》教材是很多电子商务专业教师共同的困惑。本文对现行主流的《电子商务概论》教材进行综合分析,总结出其存在的矛盾和问题,并给出探讨性建议与同仁们交流。     

深圳经济特区:中国对外经济政策的窗口——以深圳作为中国对外经济政策窗口作用论述为中心

邓小平关于经济特区是中国"对外政策的窗口"的著名论断,其完整的内涵表现在:经济特区是中国反对霸权主义和强权政治的窗口;经济特区是中国维护世界和平的窗口;经济特区是加强中国同第三世界的团结和合作的窗口.不能简单地把经济特区定义和解释为"对外开放的窗口",在和平与发展为主题的国际大背景下,改革开放以来的深圳经济特区,一直发挥着中国对外政策尤其是对外经济政策窗口的作用.     

Attitudes of University Students toward Business Ethics: A Cross-National Investigation of Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong

With the current globalisation and complexity of today’s business environment, there are increasing concerns on the role of business ethics. Using culture and religion as the determinants, this paper presents a cross-national study of attitudes toward business ethics among three countries: Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. The results of this paper have shown the attitudes toward business ethics to be significantly different among the three countries. It was also found that respondents who practised their religion tend to consider themselves more ethically minded than those who do not. Additional findings on gender have also revealed significant differences between the males and females for respondents in Singapore and Australia. Males are generally considered more ethical than females across the three countries studied. Dr. Ian Phau teaches Marketing at the Curtin University of Technology. He is an avid researcher in the area of country image and branding issues. He also edits a peer reviewed marketing journal. Garick Kea is a researcher with the Curtin University of Technology. His research interests include consumer ethnocentrism, Consumer Animosity and marketing ethics.     

Estimating temporal trends in preferences measured by graded paired comparisons

A sizable marketing research literature on preference measurement, prediction, and explanation has thus far been more concerned with point estimates of preference than with consistent changes over time. Such temporal trends can be estimated using data collected from graded paired comparisons. An appropriate technique for deriving individual and group trend parameters is first described and then illustrated using data from an experiment dealing with aesthetic preferences. Suggestions are offered concerning its advantages and limitations for applications in marketing.     

试论我国期货市场国际化及其国际定价中心功能的发挥

目前,期货市场国际定价中心地位相对较低仍是我国期货市场发展中存在的一个核心问题,而这一问题的解决又依赖于期货市场国际化程度的提高。本文先从国际成功经验角度提出了国际定价中心功能的发挥需要期货市场的高度国际化,然后指出正是期货市场的封闭性,造成了我国期货市场国际定价中心地位的缺失。最后,本文从我国的现实情况出发,提出要积极稳妥地加快我国期货市场的国际化,逐渐形成国际定价中心的地位。     

对构建我国所得税会计准则相关问题的探讨

构建高质量的所得税会计准则既要考虑所得税会计准则国际化的策略,又要注意协调与相关会计标准的关系.论文在对所得税事项的实质及其财务影响进行剖析的基础上,探讨了我国所得税会计准则的目标、原则;在对相关因素进行分析、权衡的基础上,对所得税会计准则的定位、会计方法选择提出明确意见.这些问题不仅涉及所得税会计准则的主要内容,而且关系到所得税会计准则的质量.     

An Empirical Investigation of the Relationships between Ethical Beliefs, Ethical Ideology, Political Preference and Need for Closure

An analysis is presented of the relationships between consumers ethical beliefs, ethical ideology, Machiavellianism, political preference and the individual difference variable "need for closure". It is based on a representative survey of 286 Belgian respondents. Standard measurement tools of proven reliability and robustness are used to measure ethical beliefs (consumer ethics scale), ethical ideology (ethical positioning), Machiavellianism (Mach IV scale) and need for closure. The analysis finds the following. First, individuals with a high need for closure tend to have beliefs that are more ethical as regards possible consumer actions, and score higher on idealism and lower on Machiavellianism, than those with a low need for closure. Second, a correlation exists between political preference and ethical beliefs. Third, a significant relationship exists between ethical ideology and political preference for the two largest political parties. Fourth, individuals with a high and low need for closure have different political preferences for right-wing and left-wing parties.     

产业销售起飞研究——以绿色农业产业为例

近年产业销售起飞机理成为产业组织和市场营销的研究热点。目前研究分支有:以产品销售扩散研究发展成的经典的Bass模型,但产品销售起飞本质上是个二分事件,所以扩散流派并没很好倡导和揭示起飞机理;Golder等人不仅提出起飞概念,而且在研究方法上借用生存分析等技术,并取得重大进展。采用"起飞阈值"法对绿色农业产业销售时机进行实证分析,结果表明绿色农业产业在2002年实现产业起飞。     

论国际税收竞争与竞争性的中国税制

本文从国际税收竞争基本概念入手,明确国际税收竞争与有害税收竞争的区别与联系.运用实证分析的方法,说明世界各国税收竞争的发展与现状,指出税收竞争是经济全球化发展的历史必然.通过比较,认为我国税制具有一定的竞争力,但仍存在一些不足.为了完善税制,本文提出建立竞争性中国现代税制的初步设想.