Time-varying beta in functional factor models: Evidence from China

In this paper, we introduce a functional method to investigate how betas change over time in factor models. Based on the China A-share data, we drop the constant beta assumption in the CAPM and multi-factor models to estimate the time-varying betas directly from the functional data regression. The empirical results show that exposures to all risk factors have certain time-varying patterns in the Chinese A-share stock market.     

How to optimize the allocation of research resources? An empirical study based on output and substitution elasticities of universities in Chinese provincial level

Although significant progress has been made in China's basic research in recent years, there remains a wide gap between research in China and that from developed countries. How to optimize the allocative efficiency of research resources is of great importance for increasing research output. In this paper, using the fixed effect stochastic frontier model based on the translog production function, we estimate output and substitution elasticities of research and development (R&D) inputs at universities in China's provincial level during 2009–2016. We find that the R&D technical efficiency of China's universities, after a rapid growth, has tended to become relatively stable. Improvements of internationalization degree and exogenous R&D capabilities are conducive to promoting R&D technical efficiency, whereas expenditures from government grants inhibit the promotion of R&D technical efficiency; the effects of R&D capital deepening and internet penetration are not evident. The output elasticity of R&D capital is much higher than that of R&D personnel, suggesting that R&D capital is the main driving force of research output. The substitution elasticity between R&D capital and personnel has experienced a change from substitution to complementary since 2014. To realize sustained growth of research output, we should increase R&D input with positive output elasticity or reduce R&D input with negative output elasticity, making the necessary trade-offs according to the substitution relationship between the two R&D inputs.     

NIT picking: The macroeconomic effects of a Negative Income Tax

I study a revenue-neutral reform of the U.S. income tax and welfare system that involves the adoption of a Negative Income Tax (NIT). The reform is undertaken in a life-cycle economy with individual heterogeneity and uninsurable idiosyncratic labor risk. The optimal NIT consists of a 22% rate and a transfer equivalent to 11% of per-capita GDP. The ex-ante average welfare gain is a 2.1% annual increase of individual consumption. I show that a NIT outperforms a flat tax reform (income tax plus deduction) by a considerable margin. The key consequence of the reform is that high-productivity agents increase their relative importance in the labor supply at the expense of low-productivity agents.     

论住房保障制度的法律价值

住宅问题是关系民生,关系社会和谐的关键问题。一方面,住宅权是一项基本人权,建立住房保障制度是政府的法律义务,政府应建立合理的住房保障制度,保障中低收入者居者有其屋;另一方面,建立住房保障制度要以实现社会正义为价值目标,在住房保障制度的设计中应遵循差别原则,调节社会和经济利益分配,将高收入者的一部分收入适当地转移给低收入人群,使处于住房最不利地位的贫困者能够尽可能大地获得住房利益。     

浅析再创业中的企业资本运营

企业资本运营是一种战略行为,是以有效投资或有效理财为前提,以最佳成本和合适风险为基础,力求企业利润最大化,按照市场经济的一般规律来经营优化企业资本或生产要素的经济活动。其基本特征主要表现为：以资本导向为核心,采用价值形态管理模式,实行开放式经营,注重资本的流动性。它往往可以通过企业资产重组、买(借)”壳”上市、兼并与收购、吸收合并、债务重组和破产重组等多种多样基本模式和行为表现出来。     

推进利率市场化改革的基础条件和路径选择

＂十二五＂期间,利率市场化改革提速大势所趋、不可逆转。但利率市场化不可能一蹴而就,必须具备一定的基础条件,包括市场主体、市场规则、市场基准、市场监管等。进一步推进利率市场化,要着力维护良好的宏观经济运行环境,不断完善以公司治理为核心的现代企业制度,大力推进金融市场健康发展,培育和完善市场化基准利率,提高金融监管水平和宏观调控能力。     

福建省法人单位基础信息库建设的实践和探索

法人单位基础信息库（以下简称“法人库”）与人口基础信息库、自然资源和空间地理基础信息库、宏观经济数据库并列为我国“十五”期间规划和开发的4大基础信息库。法人库与其他基础信息库共同构成我国电子政务的基础信息资源,它们的建成和应用,对消除“信息孤岛”,推进信息资源开发,提升电子政务建设水平有重要作用。本文基于笔者的工作实践,以福建省法人库建设为研究案例,结合新公共管理理论,分析法人库建设中有待完善的几个问题,提出提升省法人库建设效能的几点个人想法。     

《计算机应用基础》课程教学的改革与探讨

《计算机应用基础》是高职院校课程体系中普遍开设的公共基础课,是一门计算机知识的入门课程。自己根据不同专业、学生学习的起点不一,教学内容过于系统化,有些教学模式陈旧,学生学习个性无法发挥等情况,结合近几年的教学经验和教学效果简单谈谈本课程教学的几点改革。     

独立院校非会计专业基础会计教学改革初探

随着市场经济的不断发展,企业的经济业务日趋复杂,开设基础会计学课程的专业越来越多,对会计理论和实务的要求也越来越高。独立学院作为一种新的教学模式,现已成为我国高等教育事业不可或缺的一部分。基础会计学作为经济管理类专业的必修课程,对会计学专业和非会计专业学生的日后学习和工作都起到了奠定财务知识基础的作用。如何使非会计专业学生学好基础会计学,能够学以致用,是独立学院的教学改革过程中亟待解决的现实问题。     

打造世界级装备制造业的基本战略

装备制造业是一个国家工业的基础和创新的源泉,是衡量一个国家国际竞争力的重要标志。因此,全球各大国都把促进装备制造业发展作为一项基本国策。作为制造业大国的中国,其装备制造业也快速崛起,在国际分工中取得了一定的地位,但也存在一些问题,这需要我们寻找恰当的策略,把中国打造成为世界级的装备制造业基地。