社会固定投资与居民福利量化关系模型分析

固定资本投资是流动资本投资的前提和基础,也是整个社会经济规模扩张与发展所必须依赖的重要物质基础。现期厂商的固定资本投资会直接导致本期总需求的增加,在保持总供求平衡的前提下,政府本期的调控货币投放规模将会相应减小,从而影响本期社会弱势居民的福利水平。     

Does corporate social responsibility reduce financial distress risk?

This paper examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects the level of financial distress risk (FDR). Using a sample of 1201 US-listed firms during 1991–2012, our results indicate that firms with higher CSR levels have lower FDR, suggesting that a better CSR performance makes firms more creditworthy and have better access to financing, which is rewarded with less financial defaults. This finding is robust to using alternative proxies of FDR, to controlling for potential endogeneity, and is mainly driven by the community, diversity, employee relations, and environmental dimensions of CSR. Moreover, this relationship is more prevalent in firms with strong governance mechanisms and high product market competition. It is also more exacerbated for less distressed firms and during non-crisis periods. Overall, our findings suggest that the adoption of CSR practices comes with less distress and default risks, likely leading to a more attractive corporate environment, better financial stability and more crisis-resilient economies.     

Sharing Common Resources in Patriarchal and Status-Based Societies: Evidence from Tanzania

ABSTRACT

In rural African societies, socioeconomic differentiation linked to gender and social status exerts an important influence on the distribution of common-pool resources. Through a behavioral experiment conducted in 2008 in rural Tanzania, this contribution examines the influence of gender and social status on distribution behavior of users of self-governed common watersheds. It finds that men and women with low social status distribute water equally when water is abundant but keep larger shares when water is scarce, although low-status women try to be as fair as possible at the expense of their returns from irrigated agriculture. Men of high social status keep more than half of the available water for themselves, both in abundance and scarcity, and deprive others from sizeable returns from irrigated agriculture. Women of high social status share altruistically when water is abundant and equally when water is scarce, giving up on returns from irrigated agriculture.     

保障房空间布局中的问题及解决途径——以南京市为例

城市保障性住房问题不仅是一个经济问题,更是一个重大的社会问题。以往对城市保障性住房的探讨多集中在供给制度、资金来源、准入条件等方面,而对保障性住房空间布局是否合理,以及由此可能引发的社会问题则重视不够。在对南京城市保障性住房空间分布调查分析的基础上,提出由于南京保障性住房普遍成片建设在城市远郊区,将可能导致出现低收入阶层向上流动受阻、社会阶层隔离与排斥加剧、贫困文化再生产和社会风险加剧等一系列社会问题。因此建议各级政府出台相应法律法规,合理规范城市保障性住房的空间分布格局,推行不同阶层混合居住模式,以此降低社会转型期的社会风险与转型成本。     

中国对拉美国家出口贸易影响因素实证分析——基于总量与技术结构视角

本文首先通过计算中国对拉美七国四类制成品出口密集度等,分析中国对拉美地区制成品出口结构;通过考察中国和拉美七国生产要素结构变化情况对中拉要素禀赋差异作深入分析,以期探究中国对拉美制成品出口结构背后深层次原因。然后构建扩展引力模型分别从总量视角和技术结构视角探析中国对拉美货物出口主要影响因素,结果显示拉美国家国内生产总值、中拉要素禀赋差异、中国货币自由度、中国对拉美直接投资水平对中国向拉美出口总量均产生显著促进作用,各影响因素对不同技术类别制成品出口的作用效果存在差异性。为实现中国对拉美出口贸易结构优化升级,推动中国产业结构调整升级,促进拉美地区经济更快发展,研究有针对性地提出了对策建议。     

Social Justice and Affirmative Action in Malaysia: The New Economic Policy after 50 Years

Malaysia's New Economic Policy (NEP), promulgated in 1971, established a two-pronged national social justice agenda of poverty reduction, and social restructuring or pro-Bumiputera affirmative action. This distinction of these policy objectives must be appreciated, but various misconceptions, especially regarding affirmative action, have resulted in polarization and stalemate after 50 years of the NEP. Social justice and affirmative action must be conceptualized and evaluated with clarity and rigor, with policy objectives, mechanisms and outcomes aligned. Malaysia needs to systematically formulate a new social justice paradigm, building on the NEP and anchored on the principles of equality and fairness. In the affirmative action sphere, this framework must focus on developing capability and competitiveness, and balance identity, need and merit in the allocation of opportunity.     

国内外嵌入性研究述评

对现有国内外嵌入性研究进行了评述。指出:目前嵌入性的概念内涵已较为成熟;一些学者综合社会资本和社会网络研究,对嵌入型的概念构成提出了不同的维度划分方式,多数学者从不同侧面探讨了嵌入性与企业活动的关系;现有研究的不足主要体现为,不同层面的研究没有有效交融、嵌入性与企业活动间联系研究的系统性有待开发、一些社会网络研究方法等无法被充分应用于此方面的研究中。     

河北省被征地农民社会养老保障制度建设的完善对策

近年来,河北省在探索建立被征地农民社会养老保障制度上取得了一定成效,对解决城市化进程中引发的被征地农民的生活安全问题发挥了积极作用,但仍存在诸多不足,亟待从土地征用补偿、养老保险政策体系及相关的管理监督机制等方面进一步加以完善。     

国际投资者非理性情绪下的中国国际收支稳定性研究

自2001年以来,经常项目账户和资本与金融项目账户顺差的指数型增长将我国推向了全球国际收支平衡问题的风口浪尖。在国际金融危机频发、跨境流动资金波动剧烈的背景下,我国反常顺差所具有的潜在风险非常值得关注。鉴于此,文章的研究重点在于:(1)采用涉及27个国家股票市场的数据,构建并计算了反映国际投资者情绪变化的风险偏好指数;(2)将国际市场投资者情绪等因素纳入分析框架,实证分析了影响国际资金在我国跨境流动的驱动因素,以辨别跨境资金中的不稳定成分,并给出相应的政策建议。     

我国收入差距扩大的影响因素及其实证分析——以行业收入变动为视角

笔者以传统行业收入决定理论为基础,运用2003年～2008年我国19个行业的面板数据构建模型,系统地分析了2002年至今各行业收入变动的影响因素及其影响效果.结果表明,生产效率仍然是决定收入变动的重要因素;垄断因素在行业收入差距扩大中扮演最重要的角色;人力资本水平对收入变动的作用有待于进一步提升.笔者还阐述了加入"世贸"组织后垄断行业暴利、高教扩招等社会现实问题对行业收入变动的影响.