Finance Is Not the Economy: Reviving the Conceptual Distinction

Conflation of real capital with finance capital is at the heart of current misunderstandings of economic crisis and recession. We ground this distinction in the classical analysis of rent and the difference between productive and unproductive credit. We then apply it to current conditions, in which household credit — especially mortgage credit — is the premier form of unproductive credit.

This is supported by an institutional analysis of postwar U.S. development and a review of quantitative empirical research across many countries. Finally, we discuss contemporary consequences of the financial sector’s malformation and overdevelopment.     

Security or opportunity: the influence of risk‐taking tendency on risk information preference

It has been suggested that risk avoiders and risk takers differ in the extent to which they focus on the worst and best outcomes of a risky activity. By implication risk avoiders and risk takers should also differ in their risk information preferences. Specifically, as risk avoiders focus more on the worst outcomes, it was hypothesized that they would prefer negative information about the risk. In contrast, as risk takers focus more on the best outcomes, it was hypothesized that they would prefer positive information about the risk. In an information selection task, subjects could select newspaper headlines that indicated negative and positive information about a variety of risks. Contrary to the hypothesis, risk avoiders selected more positive information than risk takers. The results are discussed in relation to the influence of personality on risk taking. One tentative explanation is that differences in anxiety between risk avoiders and risk takers account for these results in that risk avoiders try to find reassurance by seeking positive information. Another is that the participants were seeking reassurance in a relatively involuntary confrontation with risks.     

国外托盘运营现状及其运作经验分析

简单介绍了国外主要托盘运营机构的现状,对三种典型的运营模式进行了深入分析,总结了国外托盘运营的经验,为我国选择托盘运营模式、建立托盘运营机构提供了有益的参考.     

The Social Costs of Innovation Policy

Innovation policy is designed to produce social benefits by solving a market failure problem associated with private investment in new knowledge. Yet the social costs of these policy interventions are routinely ignored. We use the Djankov et al. (2003) institutional possibility frontier model to analyse the trade‐offs between the social costs of disorder and those of dictatorship that particular innovation policies impose. We show how different innovation policies impose different types of social costs. We conclude that the case for public support for innovation policies is often both distorted and overstated because of failure to account for social costs.     

门当户对与住房租购选择——基于中国家庭金融调查数据的实证分析

本文使用中国家庭金融调查数据,研究婚姻匹配模式对住房租购选择的影响。结论发现,所谓门当户对的家庭选择租房居住的概率更高,而具有高攀特点的家庭更加偏好直接购买住房。孩子数越多、年收入越低,以及拥有车辆时选择买房居住的概率更高;孩子数可以削弱门当户对对住房租购选择的负向影响,收入越高的门当户对的家庭选择买房的概率更高。分组分析证实,在住房价格高的情况下,这些因素对住房租购选择的影响更为显著,而在价格低的地区房价便是影响住房租购选择的主导因素。     

DO SUBSIDIES JUSTIFY RETALIATORY PROTECTIONISM?

A theoretical case can be made to justify trade protectionism on the ground that foreign governments are subsidising export industries. This case is based on overall international welfare grounds. However, the country receiving the subsidised products benefits from the subsidies. Furthermore, imposing retaliatory protectionist measures risks encouraging rent‐seeking behaviour. In practice, it is impossible to define exactly what behaviour does and does not amount to the grant of subsidies by the government of an exporting country.     

Trust in the supervisor and the development of employees’ social capital during organizational entry: a conservation of resources approach

Abstract

This article aims to understand how trust in the supervisor contributes to the development of employees’ social capital using Conservation of Resources theory as a theoretical framework and networking ability as an indicator of social capital development. We hypothesize that the relationship between newcomers’ trust in the supervisor and networking ability will be mediated by feedback seeking from the supervisor and moderated by emotional exhaustion. Based on a three-wave time-lagged study of newcomers (N = 224), we found trust in the supervisor to be indirectly and positively related to networking ability through the mediating influence of feedback seeking from the supervisor. In addition, feedback seeking interacted with emotional exhaustion in predicting networking ability such that it was more positively related to it at high levels of emotional exhaustion. The indirect relationship of trust to networking ability as mediated by feedback seeking was also stronger at high levels of emotional exhaustion. We discuss this study’s implications for our understanding of supervisors’ role and newcomers’ experience during entry, as well as for social capital research.     

基于微观层面的写字楼租金影响因素研究述评

写字楼市场已成为当前房地产开发投资的重点领域,写字楼租金研究也备受关注。写字楼租金的影响因素研究可分为微观层面的研究和宏观层面的研究。本文聚焦于微观层面,从解释租金和检验因素两个维度对有关写字楼或办公单元租金的影响因素的相关文献进行了梳理,着重关注写字楼租金影响因素的研究内容、研究方法和最新研究进展。     

Constitutional Design for a Rent Seeking Society: The Voting Rule Choice Revisited

Buchanan and Tullock's original trade-off model of constitutional design is used to analyze how constitutional design affects post-constitutional rent seeking, and, in turn, how the anticipation of post-constitution rent seeking should lead to modification of constitutional design — specifically with respect to imposing and maintaining effective (composite) supermajority decision rules.     

大学生的文化资本及其在职业获得中的作用

大学生的文化资本对其职业获得起着重要作用。这种作用表现为提升大学生的综合能力,提高大学生的就业机会。而文化资本主要是通过社会资本起作用。