基于分形理论谈安徽沿江环湖城市群的建立

简要介绍了分形理论的原理,运用分形理论,借助于罗特卡公式分析安徽省城市体系规模分布的分形特征,发现安徽省城市体系规模分布符合位序—规模率,存在城市体系规模分布过于均衡及首位城市、大城市规模过小的问题。提出建立安徽省沿江环湖城市群规模体系的发展对策。     

创新型企业公司治理结构与绩效关系研究——基于中国创业板上市公司的经验证据

本文选取2009～2010年在创业板上市的51家公司作为样本实证研究了创新型企业公司治理结构对公司绩效的影响。研究发现,中国创新型企业存在着实际控制人权力过大的问题,其治理结构表现出较明显的内部人控制现象,而独立董事的引入在一定程度上缓解了这一问题,并在公司绩效中得以体现。高管薪酬与公司绩效正相关,较高的薪酬水平能够有效激励高管团队创造良好的业绩。由于风险投资机构追求短期收益以及成为公司股东的时间较短,风险投资的引入并没有为创新型企业带来更高绩效。     

Casinos,casino size,and crime: A panel data analysis of Michigan counties

Growth in legal gaming in the United States over the past quarter century or so is well-documented. One important factor fueling this growth was the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, which permitted Native American tribes to establish, under agreements or “compacts” with the states in which they are located, casinos offering what is known as Class III gaming: slot machines, blackjack, roulette, and other games. Since the passage of the Act, there have been 21 Native American casinos established in Michigan. Also, three non-Native American casinos opened in Detroit in 1999 and 2000. This growth in the number of casinos has sparked a wide-ranging debate over the social and economic impacts of casino development.The purpose of this research is to focus on the crime issue in the broader casino debate. We investigate the impact of these Michigan casinos on the rates of burglary, robbery, larceny and motor vehicle theft (property crimes) in casino host counties as well as in nearby counties. We employ a panel data set with annual observations on all 83 Michigan counties for the period 1994–2010. The dataset includes crime rates taken from the FBI crime data series, variables for the presence of a casino in a county or in a nearby county, the scale of a casino's operations as measured by revenues, and a variety of control variables suggested by the broader literature investigating the factors that determine crime rates generally.Our results suggest that in most cases the property crime rates studied are not affected by the presence or size of a casino in a county or in a nearby county. The largest such impact, which is negative, is for motor vehicle theft. The size of a casino does have a small positive effect on the motor vehicle theft rate.     

大城市更有利于创新吗？

基于2003—2017年中国277个地级及以上城市的面板数据,分析城市规模及其空间互动对城市创新产出的影响效应。研究结果包括：第一,全样本的估计结果显示,随着城市规模持续扩大,城市创新能力不断提升,但是该正向作用会受到城市所处地区和资源禀赋的约束;第二,作用机制检验结果表明,更大的市场需求规模与更高的金融集聚水平是大城市拥有更多创新产出的重要路径;第三,从空间溢出效应视角分析后发现,城市创新的空间集聚特征呈现正的显著性,同时当城市的规模越大时,其对周边城市创新的抑制效应就更为强烈。     

上市公司高管薪酬影响因素的实证研究

本文主要研究我国上市公司高级经理人薪酬水平的影响因素：本文从公司业绩、公司规模、公司所有权结构和董事会构成及其他影响薪酬决定的诸多因素方面提出了假设。实证结果表明：高管薪酬的高低与公司业绩和公司规模有明显的正相关关系；第一大股东控股比例越低，高管薪酬水平越高；独立董事和薪酬委员会的设立对高管薪酬的影响并不显著。     

中国工业R＆D投入的影响因素

本文运用中国工业面板数据,实证研究了企业规模、产权结构等因素对R＆D投入的影响。研究发现,企业销售收入对R＆D支出有显著正影响,企业员工数量对R＆D支出和R＆D人数均没有显著影响,这意味着熊彼特假说依赖于企业规模和创新变量的设定;国有产权对R＆D人数有显著正影响,但对R＆D支出没有显著影响,这可能表明国有企业在R＆D资源配置上存在着某种扭曲。研究还发现,政府资助对激励企业R＆D投入有重要作用。     

试论我国中小企业社会责任承担中的政府责任

由于多方面的原因,目前我国中小企业承担社会责任的现状还不尽人意。因此,政府应切实履行职能,转变经济增长方式,树立正确的政绩观;健全相关法律法规;不断增强服务意识,打造服务型政府,努力为企业履行社会责任解除后顾之忧;完善竞争激励机制,加强监督和管理,加强教育培训;加强对企业社会责任的宣传,建立与完善信息披露制度,保证企业社会责任报告的真实性。     

Growth-focused or profit-focused firms: Transitions toward profitable growth

Profitable growth is the most desirable state tourism and hospitality firm managers can hope to achieve. In reality, however, it is not easy for a tourism and hospitality firm to consistently grow and accumulate profits. In order to achieve profitable growth, some firms focus on sales growth while victimizing profits, while others concentrate on profits and hold off on growth. To better understand these strategies, this study investigated the growth state, profit state and transitions of restaurant firms. The findings of this study supported that profit-focused firms are more likely to achieve profitable growth than growth-focused firms. In addition, growth-focused firms with low liquidity had a higher likelihood of transitioning to a state of low growth and low profit in the short-term, and this liquidity effect was more serious for small firms in terms of long-term performance. Further, when profit-focused firms had few growth opportunities, large free cash flows increased the likelihood of transitioning to a state of low growth and low profit in the short-term. More detailed results are provided in this paper.     

Board structure and CEO compensation: Evidence from U.S. lodging industry

Using a sample of U.S. lodging firms, this paper examines the relationship between board of director characteristics and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Previous research shows that larger boards are detrimental to the effectiveness of the board of directors and deteriorate the control imposed on CEO actions and pay. Board independence is also suggested as an important quality to emphasize the control on the CEO. We propose that U.S. lodging firms’ board of directors provide a nice setting to investigate the effects of size and independence on CEO compensation level. Our findings suggest that CEO compensation is not related to board size, and positively related to proportion of the outside board members. These findings are contrary to the findings of previous studies. Our findings may provide significant insights to lodging firms’ board of directors to structure efficient compensation packages.     

Airport stops and flights on small airplanes as inhibitors of tourism-related air travel: A case study

This article discusses the extent to which prospective tourists' concerns about airport stops and flights on small airplanes inhibit air travel to tourist destinations, drawing on data from telephone surveys conducted in the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas area. Respondents were queried about the extent to which one airport stop, two airport stops, and one airport stop followed by a flight on a small, propeller-powered airplane, respectively, would deter them from flying to a destination 1096 miles (1764 km) away. Findings suggest that marketers of similar destinations in similarly distant markets that are accessible by air only after two airport stops risk having their promotional appeals ignored by roughly half those who would prefer to reach such destinations by air. Moreover, those most concerned about such flight schedules were more likely than other respondents to have high incomes and to use the Internet to obtain vacation or travel information.