Aggregate stock market behavior and investors’ low risk aversion

This paper studies whether investors’ high risk aversion can be avoided in a representative-agent model that is able to explain aggregate stock market behavior in the US financial market. We present a consumption-based asset pricing model with a representative agent who has a ‘catching up with the Joneses’ preference to show that high risk aversion can be avoided in a representative-agent model that can help explain many of the empirically observed properties of the aggregate stock market return, including the equity premium and risk-free rate puzzles, the predictability of long-horizon stock returns, and the ‘leverage effect’ in return volatility.     

Psychological ownership and stewardship behavior: The moderating role of agency culture

This study investigates whether employees’ psychological ownership results in stewardship behavior and whether this relationship is affected by an employee’s perception of the organization’s agency culture. A survey of the financial managers of 129 firms in Germany generally confirms these expectations. In addition, and surprisingly, our findings suggest a negligible effect of an agency culture on the relationship between psychological ownership and stewardship behavior when managers perceive high psychological ownership. Thereby, our study enriches the literature on the consequences of psychological ownership by providing insights into the boundary conditions of such outcomes at the manager level.     

组织环境因素对中小物流企业人力资源管理行为影响的实证分析

从组织环境因素的角度研究了其对中小物流企业人力资源管理行为的影响,将组织环境因素分为企业经营规模、企业发展战略以及与大企业的联盟关系三个维度,并从这三个维度出发分别研究了其与企业的核心团队组成结构比例、教育培训方式和投入程度、绩效考核体系规范性及员工工资薪酬水平等之间关系的相关性,通过对调查问卷获得的实际样本数据进行统计分析,认为企业发展战略以及与大企业的联盟关系对于中小型物流企业人力资源管理行为的影响比较显著,而企业经营规模对人力资源管理行为选择的影响相对较小.     

新疆兵团农户借贷行为及其影响因素的实证研究

本文以新疆兵团农户调查为基础,研究了在新疆兵团特殊的金融供给制度下农户借贷行为特征,并运用TOBIT模型对农户借贷行为的影响因素进行实证分析。研究结果表明:种植规模、农业支出、金融供给制度对农户正规借贷具有正向影响,而地区差异则对其具有负向影响;种植规模、非农业经营支出、家庭资产状况、子女教育支出、借款用途对农户非正规借贷具有正向影响,而非农业经营收入、受教育年限、社会关系则对其具有负向影响。     

信息披露、市场约束与银行风险承担行为

文章运用我国14家主要商业银行2000-2008年间的数据,实证研究了银行信息披露与其风险承担行为之间的关系,研究表明信息披露能否发挥其市场约束功能取决于相应的制度基础和市场环境,只有当金融体系的市场化程度较高,且银行能充分有效地披露其风险信息时,来自债权人的市场约束行动才能真正发挥对银行风险承担行为的约束作用.     

无网上购物经验的消费者橱窗购物行为——基于交易成本视角的实证研究

本文基于交易成本经济学理论,应用结构方程模型,对我国无网上购物经验的消费者的橱窗购物行为进行研究。研究结果表明,在我国,无网上购物经验的消费者的橱窗购物行为受交易成本的影响很大。研究同时表明,交易成本与不确定性、资产专用性和信任度密切相关。如果消费者信任倾向低,在面对高不确定性和高资产专用性时,会感受到较高的交易成本。而当消费者面对高可靠性和详细的隐私政策时,则倾向于在网上购物中加大投入成本。     

Expenditure elasticities of the demand for leisure services

Although some research has already focused on the analysis of expenditure elasticities of leisure demand, some shortcomings with regard to the content and the underlying theoretical model as well as the applied methods exist. This article aims at avoiding these problems to provide consistent derivatives of leisure service expenditure elasticities. Therefore, a regular demand system is derived from microeconomic duality theory. To implement leisure specific demand factors (i.e. demand- and supply-based sports and recreational opportunities as well as sports and recreational preferences) while still being consistent with neoclassical demand theory, the basic model is extended by applying the demographic translation framework. Data of the continuous household budget survey (n?=?7724) from Germany is used for the estimation of the derived demand system. It is shown how sensitive the results are depending on the applied (censored) regression model: 16 out of 18 analysed services are indicated as luxury goods based on the findings of the Tobit model type I but as necessities based on the findings of the Tobit model type II. Possible implications are presented and discussed.     

Abstraction and product categories as explanatory variables for food consumption

This study sets out to explore variation in the consumer choice structure in relation to three types of products with different levels of search, experience and credence attributes. The decision structures of rice, wine and functional food (experience, search and credence products) consumers were explored by means of laddering. The results suggest the presence of an emotional component in foods that increases in complexity (becomes more abstract) with the number of credence attributes. The findings recommend adjusting the complexity of advertising campaigns and product positioning to the type of product being promoted.     

Identifying significant characteristics of organic milk consumers: a CART analysis of an artefactual field experiment

The organic dairy category is one of the fastest growing categories of organic foods in the US. Organic milk consumers generally cite perceived health benefits and lower risk of food contamination, as well as perceived superior quality and environmental sustainability of organic farming methods, as the major motivations for preference of organic over conventional milk. While the attributes of organic milk that are valued by consumers are fairly well-known, more ambiguity exists regarding the demographic characteristics of the typical organic milk consumer. This research makes use of experimental data from 148 adult participants and use a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis, a nonparametric modelling approach, to identify how Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) for organic milk varies with the demographic profile of experiment participants. The study finds that perceived taste of organic milk, concern for the risk of consuming conventional milk, being a primary shopper, and the quantity of milk consumed are the major factors that separate experiment participants into groups with high and low WTP for organic milk.     

The effects of oil price shocks on expenditure category CPI

In this study, we apply a two-block structural vector autoregressive (VAR) model proposed by Kilian and Park (2009) in order to investigate the dynamic effects of changes in oil price on the expenditure category consumer price index (CPI) in the United States and Japan. Our results confirm that each expenditure category price index responded very differently to the same structural shock, and that whether changes in oil price function as a positive stimulus or a negative shock for the individual expenditure category prices also depends on the kind of underlying shock that drives the changes in oil price. Finally, our results also reveal that the manner in which changes in oil price affect each expenditure category price differs between the United States and Japan and these detailed-level differences may lead to aggregate-level differences in the price response of both countries to changes in oil price.