Boycott them! No,boycott this! Do choice overload and small-agent rationalization inhibit the signing of anti-consumption petitions?

The Internet and social media have increased the number of organizations and individuals asking consumers to sign petitions against transgressing brands. This raises a question as to whether such increases in requests to sign a petition to support a boycott positively or negatively impact on consumer willingness to enact anti-consumption. Via experiments, this study investigates the effect that choice overload has on consumers signing a petition in support of a boycott call. The findings establish that individuals who need to make a choice from numerous boycott calls (i.e., large choice-sets) are less likely to sign a petition to support a boycott than individuals making a similar choice from a small number of boycott calls (i.e., small choice-sets). The study further introduces a mediator that explains this effect. Compared with individuals facing a small choice-set, those facing numerous options are more likely to experience the small-agent rationalization, and thus, are less likely to sign the petition to support a boycott. The small-agent rationalization (SAR) relates to one's acceptance of inequity in the world as well as perceptions of their own powerlessness. The study establishes the role of choice overload in boycott literature and empirically tests SAR as the process mechanism. Theoretical, practical, and policy implications are discussed.     

PATTERNS OF CO‐MOVEMENT BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA AND GERMANY: EVIDENCE FROM THE PERIOD 1985 TO 2006

This paper examines the co‐movement between Germany and South Africa by applying a dynamic factor model. Because these two countries have a long history of predominant trade ties, they deemed to be suitable proxies to analyse the channels of transmission of positive supply and demand shocks in a developed economy and the effects of these on an emerging market economy. In contrast to general expectations, the paper concludes that a German supply shock has more of a demand‐shock effect on the South African economy, while a German demand shock is transmitted through price in South Africa. This implies that the policy response in South Africa should not necessarily be the same as in Germany.     

German Wage Moderation and European Imbalances: Feeding the Global VAR with Theory

German labor market reforms in the 1990s and 2000s are generally believed to have driven the large increase in the dispersion of current account balances in the Euro Area. We investigate this hypothesis quantitatively. We develop a three‐region open economy New Keynesian model with search and matching frictions from which we derive robust sign restrictions for wage bargaining and matching efficiency shocks which we term wage moderation shocks. We impose these restrictions on a Global VAR consisting of Germany and eight EMU countries to identify a wage moderation shock in Germany. Our results show that, although the German current account was significantly affected by wage moderation shocks, their contribution to European current account imbalances was negligible. We conclude that the German labor market reforms cannot be the lone driver of European imbalances.     

一种基于深度学习的交通标志识别新算法

针对特定场景交通标志精度低与识别速度慢的问题,基于交通标志边缘信息与卷积神经网络,提出了一种交通标志图像识别T-YOLO算法。该算法基于YOLOv2算法检测思想,融合残差网络、卷积层填充0等结构,下采样舍弃池化层改用卷积层,并提取边缘信息与上采样以提升精度,设计7层特征提取网络以缩短识别速度,随后使用Softmax函数归一化实现多分类,并采用批量归一化、多尺度训练等方法缩短训练时间。实验表明,该算法真实有效,图形处理单元（Graphic Processing Unit,GPU）平台上最快检测速度13.69 ms/frame,每帧缩短9.51 ms,最高平均准确率97.3%,提高7.1%,满足实时高精度识别要求。与其他算法相比,该算法在交通标志识别速度与精度方面均有大幅提高,更加适用于现实场景,更贴近车载嵌入式系统。     

CIS与现代企业管理美学

概括性介绍了 ＣＩＳ（Ｃｏｒｐｏｒａｔｅ Ｉｄｅｎｔｉｔｙ Ｓｙｓｔｅｍ）的三大基本组成,并阐述了它与现代企业管理密不可分的相互联系及所处的举足轻重的地位,指出导入ＣＩＳ是现代企业谋求发展的重要手段。     

包装设计与广告

阐明了商品包装与广告间的联系与区别，正确处理好两者的关系，使商品的包装与广告设计发挥出各自最大的效用。     

Idiosyncratic and international transmission of shocks in the G7: Does EMU matter?

This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks across the Group of Seven industrialized countries (G7) before and after the introduction of the euro. We estimate global vector autoregressive (VAR) models for different periods to investigate changes in the domestic and international adjustment of macroeconomic variables following supply, demand, and nominal shocks. The shocks are identified with robust sign restrictions, which we derive from a small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. Specifically, we analyze the adjustment of output, inflation, and the real effective exchange rate following those shocks. Our results indicate that changes in the adjustment are due to global convergence rather than to regional‐specific convergence.     

Nonparametric event study tests

This paper provides the first documentation of the power and specification of the generalized sign test, which is based on the percentage of positive abnormal returns in an estimation period. In simulations using daily stock return data, the generalized sign test is well specified with both exchange listed and NASDAQ stocks. A rank test is more powerful under ideal conditions. However, the rank test is more sensitive to increases in the length of the event window, to increases in return variance, and to thin trading. The generalized sign test is a viable alternative to the rank test under these conditions.     

从功能翻译理论看汉语公示语的英译

功能翻译理论强调译文在译语文化中的交际功能,认为翻译目的决定译文,也决定翻译策略和方法,因此能够为公示语的汉译英提供有力的理论支持。为此,译者应以功能翻译理论为依据,从实现语篇的预期功能出发,充分考虑到读者的需求和文化习惯,遵循简洁明了、互文性和尊重译语文化习惯等原则,灵活采取翻译策略,从而实现公示语的交际目的。     

基于系统经济的我国渔业发展宏观表征指标(体系)初步研究

渔业发展思路的系统性分析是渔业发展战略研究的重要问题。我国渔业发展进入新阶段的特征鲜明,坚持以发展和改革的办法解决发展中问题,实现发展模式的创新,需要增强宏观形势判断能力和对产业发展的驾驭能力。本文基于系统经济原理提出我国渔业发展宏观表征指标(体系),并提出发展动力表征指标、发展质量表征指标、持续发展表征指标的基本框架,从而作为设计我国渔业发展宏观监控指标体系的一个参考路径。