创业板与中小企业的发展

胡锦涛主席在2006年1月9日的全国科技大会上提出建设创新型国家的战略方针,本文结合国家战略,分析了我国中小企业融资的现状,并探讨了创业板市场推出的几个问题,说明了创业板市场对于中小企业融资及发展的重要性。     

多学科视角下的和谐证券探析

构建和谐的证券市场的一个基本问题是弄清和谐证券市场应具有的基本属性.文章结合人们对和谐证券市场认识上的一些误区,以经济学、政治学、法理学和伦理学为视角进行分析,认为和谐的证券市场是一个以市场为基础、以政府为主导、以法律及规则为准绳、以交换正义为标准的市场.     

非对称信息下农村金融市场结构对信贷配给的影响研究

在非对称信息的农村金融市场上,普遍存在着正规农村金融机构对农户的信贷配给。而目前垄断性的农村金融市场结构,加剧了农村金融机构与农户间的信息不对称程度,引发了农村信贷资金的外流,最终导致更为严重的信贷配给问题。因此,必须发展农户贷款担保组织和乡村银行,增强农村金融市场的竞争机制,更好地克服或减弱农村金融机构与农户间的信息不对称,切实解决农户贷款难题。     

以市场为导向的顾客价值管理流程

高水平的市场导向有助于企业创造优良的顾客价值,增加顾客满意度和顾客忠诚,进而带来差异化竞争优势,并最终导致满意的绩效回报。顾客价值是一个主观的、相对的、动态的和具有层次性的概念,基于顾客价值形成的理论模型,可以构建一个以市场为导向的顾客价值管理流程,包括顾客价值学习、顾客价值沟通、顾客价值创造和交付、顾客价值监控和反馈等四个环节。     

本币升值对股市的影响——基于日本的经验研究

作为一国经济晴雨表的股票市场,不可避免地受到汇率变动的影响。文章以日本为例,分析本币升值对股市的影响。分析表明,本币升值在短期内推动本国股市繁荣,往往伴生股市泡沫,但继续升值预期一旦消失,股市往往出现大幅度下跌。因此,在人民币持续升值的背景下,必须根据我国的实际情况慎重考虑其对股市的影响。     

浅析流动性过剩背景下的股市泡沫

流动性过剩已成为中国经济发展中的一个热点问题.文章分析了形成流动性过剩的国际和国内两个方面的原因.对于流动性过剩导致了中国股市繁荣的现状,文章提出了防范股市泡沫的措施.     

深化市场改革是解决“三农”问题的根本途径

两千多年小农经济的传统观念,几十年来计划经济的制度框架和家庭承包责任制的现实因素,综合导致了我国目前农村市场经济制度环境的严重缺失和市场主体的发育不足,要从根本上解决"三农"问题必须深化市场改革,这种改革仅依靠农民自身的力量是难以实现的,必须在理论的指导下,走以强制性变迁入手再与诱致性变迁相结合的路子,有计划、有步骤的推进农村经济的市场化进程.我国农村经济是一个人造的社会系统,要实现其结构优化,只能通过社会实践和人工选择的途径,不可能由系统的自我进化来完成.     

Corporate Lobbying and Firm Performance

Corporate lobbying activities are designed to influence legislators, regulators and courts, presumably to encourage favorable policies and/or outcomes. In dollar terms, corporate lobbying expenditures are typically one or even two orders of magnitude larger than spending by Political Action Committees (PAC), and, unlike PAC donations, lobbying amounts are direct corporate expenditures. We use data made available by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to examine this more pervasive form of corporate political activity. We find that, on average, lobbying is positively related to accounting and market measures of financial performance. These results are robust across a number of empirical specifications. We also report market performance evidence using a portfolio approach. We find that portfolios of firms with the highest lobbying intensities significantly outperform their benchmarks in the three years following portfolio formation.     

Vegetarian Utopias: Visions of dietary patterns in future societies and support for social change

The current study draws on the collective futures framework to examine how visions of future societies where most people consume plant-based, vegetarian or vegan diets are related to current support for social change towards plant-based diets. Participants were 506 university students in Aotearoa New Zealand invited to imagine a society in 2050 where most individuals consume a plant-based, vegetarian, or vegan diet. A thematic analysis was conducted on responses to an open-ended item asking how these future societies would be different to today. Participants reported a variety of potential positive and negative outcomes for individuals and wider society. Subsequent analyses of attitudes scales investigated the relationships between the collective dimensions of plant-based future societies and support for policies to promote plant-based diets. For a vegetarian future, the strongest predictor of current support for social change was the expectation that widespread vegetarianism would reduce societal dysfunction. For a vegan future, the strongest predictor of support for social change was an expectation of increased warmth in a vegan society. Implications for theory and advocacy are discussed.     

Do Sovereign Re‐Ratings Destabilize Equity Markets during Financial Crises? New Evidence from Higher Return Moments

This study investigates the effects of S&P's sovereign re‐ratings on the higher moments of equity market returns over recent financial crises. Using a set of intraday stock market index prices and sovereign credit ratings for a sample of 36 countries that experienced sovereign rating changes over the period from 1996 to 2013, we find that the higher moments of stock market returns are significantly more responsive to sovereign re‐ratings during financial crises, but the effects on stock markets are not the same across different financial crises. The effects during crises are, however, magnified for large downgrades and those that are associated with a loss of investment grade status. We find that there are asymmetric effects during financial crises in that downgrades are consistently more significant than upgrades in increasing realized volatility and realized kurtosis. Both upgrades and downgrades affect realized skewness in times of crises in the expected direction.