Social Security Reform and Corporate Governance

Abstract

This paper considers implementation issues arising from potential reforms to the United States Social Security system. Many reform proposals involve individually invested accounts, but the corporate governance implications of such accounts have not been fully explored. Existing reform plans will result in a large fraction of votes being concentrated at one private fund manager. The implications for corporate governance and debt management under alternative fund management strategies are evaluated. The use of futures to construct synthetic investments could alleviate corporate governance and debt management problems.     

A live experiment on approval voting

This paper presents a large-scale experiment on the Approval Voting rule that took place during the 2002 French presidential election. We describe the experiment and its main results. The findings are as follows: (i) Such an experiment is feasible, and very well accepted by voters. (ii) The principle of approval voting is easily understood and accepted. (iii) Within the observed political context, compared to the official first-round vote, approval voting modifies the overall ranking of candidates. (iv) The candidates Le Pen and Chirac, more than the others, were able to convert approval votes into official first-round votes. JEL Classification C93, D70, D72     

我国上市公司独立董事选聘机制的重构

我国独立董事选聘机制各环节的执行现状存在较多问题,结合股东平等和股权平等原则,研究表明:在提名环节,视上市公司的股权结构,制定符合企业自身需求的提名制度,是选聘机制各环节执行的保障。比如:由提名委员会提名,同时对大股东提名权进行限制;在选举任命环节,全面引入并强制执行累积投票制度;在罢免环节,完善正当程序,建立披露制度和补偿机制。     

浅析我国油气储运工程的发展与应用

在当今时代,随着我国经济的不断向前发展,重工业的不断进步,油气储运的重要性与日俱增,从而促进了我国油气储运工程的发展与应用。本文将从油气储运工程的基本概况,油气储运的逐步发展与广泛应用,油气储运污染问题的应对措施,以及油气储运工程的重要性等方面来进行阐述与浅析。     

宁夏地区低温储粮技术优化集成探讨

根据中国储粮生态区域划分,宁夏属于第二储粮生态区,即低温干燥储粮区。该区域的生态特点决定了低温储粮既是最佳选择,也是最经济有效的储粮方式。笔者结合近年来在宁夏地区开展的低温储粮技术应用情况,探索采用技术集成以达到储备粮低温储藏的有效途径。     

CFG桩在储罐地基处理中的应用

胜利油田管理局50000m3原油储罐采用CFG桩复合地基进行处理,这在东营地区尚属首次。通过介绍分析工程地基处理的设计、施工及监测情况,显示CFG桩复合地基承载力及最终沉降量等参数均满足规范要求。     

球形储罐设计体会

本文详细诉述了球形储罐的设计、安装要求,相应装车泵安装要求及装卸车设施的设置。     

基于FPGA的电梯控制器设计

本文简要介绍了电梯控制系统的设计规则,接着介绍了基于FPGA的电梯控制器的总体设计思想,再分别从数据采集模块、信号存储模块、中央处理模块和显示模块对该系统进行了阐述。通过仿真验证该系统可行且具有较好的稳定性。     

分布式存储系统介绍及其数据一致性实现方法探究

随着Internet的发展和网络应用的普及,分布式存储技术得到了飞速的发展。文章简单介绍了分布式存储技术的特点以及几个主流的分布式文件系统,然后就数据的一致性的实现方法做了分析,介绍了主流分布式文件系统中使用的数据一致性的实现方案,最后提出了一种基于时间戳的数据一致性实现方案。