Herding behavior in the Pakistan stock exchange: Some new insights

This study attempts to examine the presence of herding behavior in the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The novel contribution of this paper is that it investigates the herding phenomenon from a large number of facets such as herding of firms towards market, herding of firms towards industry portfolios, herding of industry portfolios towards market, herding in mostly traded stocks and in large and small stocks, and herding in the crisis period. For this purpose, we use the herding behavior model of Christie and Huang (1995) on the daily closing prices data of 609 firms listed on the PSX from January 2004 to December 2013. Results show that individual firms do not herd towards market index, except when the market experiences a negative return of 5%. However, when we sort firms into small and large groups based on median market capitalization, results indicate that large firms show herding behavior in extreme market movements. Further, we find that firms in several industries herd towards their industry portfolios. However, we find weak evidence of industry portfolios herding towards the market. We also segregate the impact of financial crisis of 2008 from normal times. These findings support results of our baseline estimation.     

高校创业教育的运行体制探讨

创业教育的运行体制在高校的创业教育中起着至关重要的作用。为了更好地开展创业教育，很多高校对创业教育的运行体制做过不同的尝试，取得了很多有价值的经验。从剖析各高校开展创业教育所采用的运行体制入手，揭示当前高校创业教育运行体制中存在的突出问题，有针对性地提出高校有效开展创业教育所应采取的运行体制构建模式。     

研学结合教学理念在微观经济学课程中的应用

为了探索适合高职学生学习特点的教学方法，提高教学质量，本文就研学结合教学理念的内涵、实施路径、特征和目的进行了探索和研究，并在微观经济学课程中进行试验。结果显示教学效果良好，教学质量得到提升，学生的学习兴趣得以提高，主动参与的积极性增加，培养了学生分析问题和解决问题的能力，为专业训练和实践打好基础。论文最后就研学结合教学理念在微观经济学课程实施中存在的问题进行了剖析，并提出了进一步探索和努力地方向。     

The Variegated Financialization of Housing

There is a small but growing literature on the financialization of housing that demonstrates how housing is a central aspect of financialization. Despite the varied analyses of the financialization of housing and the importance of housing to financialization, the relations between housing and financialization remain under‐researched and under‐theorized. The financialization of housing is not really a specific form of financialization, transcending as it does a number of different forms of financialization. Housing systems, in particular, vary widely across the globe, which implies that housing financialization will be inherently variegated, path‐dependent and uneven. In this introduction to the symposium, I will discuss how the articles to follow contribute to the literature on the financialization of housing. Housing has entered a post‐Fordist, neoliberal and financialized regime. Increasingly, both mortgaged homeownership and subsidized rental housing are there to keep financial markets going, rather than being facilitated by those markets. There is little evidence that the global financial crisis has resulted in any de‐financialization of housing. There are common trajectories within uneven and variegated financialization, rather than radically different and completely unrelated forms of housing financialization.     

Key institutions in business and management education research

The authors investigate institutional productivity in business and management education (BME) research based on the analysis of 4,464 articles published by 7,210 authors across 17 BME journals over a 10-year period, involving approximately 1,900 schools worldwide. Departing from traditional disciplinary silos, they examine the BME research field as a whole by including all traditional business disciplinary areas and producing two top 100 rankings, one based on raw number of author publications and the other based on weighted scores reflecting journal quality and coauthorship.     

On the differences in measuring SMB and HML in the UK – Do they matter?

The Fama–French (FF) three factor model expands the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to include two additional factors to the market factor – SMB, employed to capture a firm size effect in returns and HML employed to capture book-to-market effects in returns. In the UK, different researchers use different ways of calculating SMB and HML in the context of empirical applications of the three factor model, or extensions of it, perhaps because they believe the differences in the construction of the SMB and HML factors to be relatively unimportant from an empirical standpoint. We investigate whether indeed factor construction methods are unimportant. Our conclusion is that they do matter.     

工程结算审核的管理和控制

为了确保工程施工进度与质量安全,就必须对整个工程成本进行严格地控制,并在整个工程或者分项工程完成后积极做好工程结算审核工作,从而强化工程结算审核的合理性与可靠性。但是由于工程结算审核需要在大量事实和依据上进行,使得审核过程出现了诸多问题,对预结算的准确有效性造成了严重的影响。本文就工程结算审核的管理和控制进行了分析。     

中小型高新技术企业初创期融资风险评价——基于模糊支持向量机融资风险评价方法

本文提出了基于模糊支持向量机的融资风险评价方法。该方法能够对融资风险进行有效地评价,从而为防范和规避融资风险提供依据。     

新媒体时代下高职廉政文化建设的思考

高职院校廉政文化是社会主义先进文化的重要组成部分,是高等职业教育培养目标顺利实现的重要保证,对于高职院校的发展具有重要的战略意义。廉政文化建设为新媒体提供主流文化的引领和规范,新媒体为廉政文化建设提供了重要的载体和平台,对实现文化育人、环境育人,培养高层次全面发展的技能人才具有不可替代的作用。新媒体为廉政文化建设带来新的机遇,也带来了挑战。     

浅议建筑给排水实验教学的研究意义

文章通过跟踪调查实际教学中的《建筑给排水》课程,研究和寻找建筑专业课程在探究型教学模式下的应用和效果,对教学中的问题进行分析,提出适合专业教学的方法,并就如何更加完善《建筑给排水》的教学模式进行讨论。