Attention to Fairness versus Profits: The Determinants of Satisficing Pricing

We investigate determinants of the competitive behaviour of satisficing, non‐profit‐maximizing pricing. Taking a behavioural approach, we argue that pricing decisions are motivated by fairness objectives as well as the desire to achieve economic objectives. We draw from the attention‐based view to build our theoretical model explaining the contextual conditions that are most likely to be associated with attention to fairness relative to attention to achieving maximum profits when setting prices. Our hypothesized predictors of satisficing pricing decisions encompass the institutional context in which the firm is embedded, the exchange context with customers and suppliers, and the context internal to the firm. Hypotheses are tested with survey data of over 3000 firms from 15 countries. We find that the decision to set prices at a satisficing level is remarkably common, and its prevalence is associated with contextual factors that are consistent with greater attention to fairness concerns.     

基于公平偏好理论的锦标机制研究

在完全竞争的劳动力市场和产品市场中，分析了公平偏好的员工是同质和异质两种情况下，最优锦标机制的设计及效率问题。研究表明，公平偏好锦标赛模型比传统锦标赛模型更具一般性。     

论国际贸易的公平制度与中国的基本原则

国际贸易的公平性反映在水平公平和垂直公平两个方面.不同发展水平国家在国际贸易中的地位不同,它们对公平贸易认识的外延角度不尽相同.与贸易自由化相结合的公平贸易理念的实现,依赖于公平贸易制度的成熟程度.国际贸易中的公平制度以全球贸易体制为载体主体,即使现存WTO体制蕴涵的公平贸易制度尚不足以完全保障国际贸易的公平发展,但它毕竟构成了公平贸易制度框架的雏形,如果没有WTO体制蕴涵的公平贸易制度,现实的国际贸易将会更加显失公平.WTO体制的公平贸易制度有待在各利益主体的相互博弈中逐步成熟,中国作为WTO的发展中成员,肩负着公平贸易制度建设的历史使命.     

我国个人所得税后续改革中必须考虑的若干问题

我国工资薪金个人所得税扣除额宜实行分地区浮动制度,而扣除额的调整必须与扣除方式的改革相结合才具有实质意义。从目前的征管实践来看,加强个人所得税管理、有效控制税源是确保改革目标实现的关键。此外,单纯追求个人所得税的公平功能而忽视其效率的作用,对我国社会政治经济的发展将产生不利的影响,也不符合改革的目标。     

Managers’ psychological diversity climate and fairness: The utility and importance of diversity management in the hospitality industry

ABSTRACT

Despite corporate investments in diversity management programs, there is a dearth in the literature that examines managers' attitudes toward diversity management practices. This is a glaring gap in the literature because the success of diversity management programs is highly depend on managers. A survey was distributed to hotel managers from properties in the southern United States. The results showed that psychological diversity climate predicted the perceived utility and importance of diversity management, and these relationships were mediated by the fairness of diversity management. These results suggest that psychological diversity climate has an impact on attitudes toward diversity management practices.     

关联交易信息的核心质量 --层次结构及实现途径

通过对关联交易的组织理性和社会成本进行简要的经济学分析，从节约社会成本的角度，借助FASB“财务会计信息质量的层次结构模型”，构筑了一个关联交易信息的核心质量层次结构，同时，从我国有关关联交易会计规范颁布和变迁的角度，分析现有关联交易信息质量的实现途径及不足，并提出相关改进建议。     

Fairness of prices,user fee policy and willingness to pay among visitors to a national forest

Imposing user fees in Nature-Based Tourism (NBT) contexts has been a controversial issue. Based on the notions of justice and fairness, this study extended previous work examining the relationship between attitudes toward user fees and spending support. In a proposed structural model of price fairness, fee spending support, and willingness to pay (WTP), this paper identified the antecedents of WTP user fees, and empirically examined to what extent the data fit the model. Furthermore, the moderating role of place attachment in the model was investigated by using multiple-group structural equation modeling. Subjects (n = 562) were recreational tourists to a forest area in the southeast U.S. Results revealed that spending support partially played a mediating role in the relationship between perceived price fairness and WTP user fees. A multiple-group invariance test also demonstrated that while the degree of place identity moderated the effect of price fairness on spending support, the degree of place dependence did not influence the relationships among the antecedents of WTP.     

对邓小平社会主义本质论的思考

在邓小平社会主义本质论中,共同富裕目标应包含“富裕”和“公平”两个子目标;按“四、一”分法可划分为“途径”和“目标”两个层次;解放、发展生产力和消灭剥削、消除两极分化两个途径之间,有主从、轻重之别,前者决定后者,故前者又是实现共同富裕目标的最根本徐径。     

Group Selection and the Limits to Altruism

Several evolutionary mechanisms have been identified in the literature that would generate altruism in humans. The most powerful (except for kin selection) and most controversial is group selection, as recently analyzed by Sober & D.S. Wilson. I do not take a stand on the issue of the existence of group selection. Instead, I examine the level of human altruism that could exist if group selection were an engine of human evolution. For the Sober & Wilson mechanism to work, groups practicing altruism must grow faster than other groups. I call altruistic behavior that would lead to faster growth efficient altruism. This often consists of cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma. ltruistic acts such as helping a temporarily hungry or injured person would qualify as efficient altruism. Efficient altruism would also require monitoring recipients to avoid shirking. Utilitarianism would be an ethical system consistent with efficient altruism, but Marxism or the Rawlsian system would not. Discussions of efficient altruism also help understand intuitions about fairness. We perceive those behaviors as fair that are consistent with efficient altruism. It is important to understand that, even if humans are selected to be altruistic, the forms of altruism that might exist must be carefully considered and ircumscribed.     

市场经济运行中的效率与公平及分配正义辨正

要建立一个真正意义上的和谐社会,必须以实现分配正义为前提.而仅靠市场经济的分配模式尚不能实现合理、公正的分配,解决社会不公问题.政府介入是经济运行的必要调控手段,政府介入到市场经济的运行中来,必然会面临如何处理公平与效率的关系问题.只有理顺这一关系才能使社会财富的分配走向更加合理化,才能创造一个和谐的制度环境,从而实现和谐社会构建.