Interpersonal influence and consumer innovativeness

Innovators represent a small and somewhat elusive group of consumers who are often the earliest adopters of new products. As such, marketing researchers and practitioners alike are interested in determining the personality characteristics that influence innovators to purchase a new product early in the product life cycle. This correlational study examined the relationships of three of these characteristics (susceptibility to interpersonal influence, attention to social comparison information, and role‐relaxed consumption) to individual innate innovativeness. Data were collected using self‐report surveys administered to 326 students at a large public university in the south‐east United States. The results supported hypothesized negative relationships between consumer innovativeness and both susceptibility to interpersonal influence and attention to social comparison information, as well as a positive relationship between consumer innovativeness and role‐relaxed consumption.     

英粤辅音对比——小议粤方言区大学英语语音教学难点

在ELS学习者进行英语语音学习时,母语总会对他们的英语发音或多或少地产生着影响。这种带有母语口音的发音不但对个人表达造成负面影响,甚至直接影响学习者的听说能力。本文通过对英语和粤语的辅音音素对比,指出以粤语为母语的学生在英语语音学习中容易出现的问题,并给出有针对性的教学建议。     

日、美失业保险制度比较及其对我国的借鉴

日、美两国在建立失业保险制度、解决失业售货员再就业方面取得了不少成功经验。根据我国目前存在大量失业人员下岗职工的实际情况，我们应对日美两国失业保险制度的建立和发展历程、适用范围、运作机制，待遇标准、支付期限及资金筹措等方面进行分析比较，借鉴其成功做法，采取有效措施，从而建立和完善我国失业保险制度。     

Understanding Cross-Country Differences in Exporter Premia: Comparable Evidence for 14 Countries

We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: exporters are more productive than non-exporters when observed and unobserved heterogeneity is controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the learning-by-exporting hypothesis. We document that the exporter premia differ considerably across countries in identically specified empirical models. In a meta-analysis of our results we find, consistent with theoretical predictions, that productivity premia are larger in countries with lower export participation rates, with more restrictive trade policies, lower per capita GDP, less effective government and worse regulatory quality, and in countries exporting to relatively more distant markets. JEL no.  F14, D21     

我国上市公司关联重组报表性的动态对比研究

我国上市公司资产重组中关联重组占相当比例，故关联重组的规范与监管将直接影响到资本市场的运作效率。对公司重组前后的财务数据采用主成分分析法结合T检验，按相关规范与制度的完善程度，分两阶段对关联重组与非关联重组的报表性进行了动态对比实证分析。得出结论：非关联重组已由报表性向实质性转变，而关联重组具有较强的报表性；相关规范、制度在对关联重组的规制方面尚未发挥应有的作用。     

经理股票期权同职工持股的比较分析

经理股票期权同职工持股作为两种激励方式各有利弊。前者激励力度和效果要大于后者 ,但存在着认识上的障碍、法规之间的冲突和操作上的困难 ;后者虽不存在上述所有问题 ,但并不适用于所有企业 ,缺乏普遍推广的现实基础。因此 ,两种激励方式都有一定的局限性 ,在实施时要有选择地使用。     

低碳经济背景下我国生物质能发展分析及比较

生物质能已成为当前世界各国能源发展的重点之一。我国在政策支持以及具体的实践方面已越来越重视生物质能的发展。与国外相比较,我国生物质能的技术水平、政府资金支持等方面都存在巨大差距。我国需要制定长远发展规划,加强生物质能研发,进一步推进低碳经济发展。如进一步加强国家政策支持;全方位拓宽融资渠道;引进技术与加强研发相结合,提升我国生物质能技术;积极发展低碳技术,加强生物质能的国际合作。     

基于国际比较视角的进口可持续发展评价体系的构建与实证研究

根据可持续发展的内涵确立了进口贸易可持续发展评价的方向,即经济效益可持续、社会效益可持续、生态效益可持续,设计了一个具有三个维度的进口可持续发展评价体系,并选取了中国、德国、日本和美国四个国家在2000-2010年间(其中2000年为基期)的进口相关数据,结合进口可持续发展指数和评价分析框架进行计算与国际比较分析。实证结果表明:我国进口贸易可持续发展总体上具有优势并有强劲的后续动力,而进口社会效益子系统下美国和德国在考察的10年间具有较好表现,进口生态效益子系统下日本呈现出稳定的优势水平。     

煤炭矿区水资源承载力评价方法比选初探

文章首先归纳了水资源承载力的主要研究方法,进而根据煤炭矿区开发的水资源影响及其特点,分析了各种方法在煤炭矿区规划环评中的适用性,认为水资源供需平衡法比较符合矿区实际,适用性较强。在此基础上,对水资源供需平衡法的通用模式进行了调整,提出了适合煤炭矿区规划环评的水资源承载力评价模型。     

Agricultural pesticides and land use intensification in high,middle and low income countries

We study levels and trends in agricultural pesticide use for a large cross-section of countries using FAO data for the period 1990–2009. Our analysis shows that a 1% increase in crop output per hectare is associated with a 1.8% increase in pesticide use per hectare but that the growth in intensity of pesticide use levels off as countries reach a higher level of economic development. However, very few high income countries have managed to significantly reduce the level of intensity of their pesticide use, because decreases in insecticide use at higher income levels are largely offset by increases in herbicide and fungicide use. The results also show very rapid growth in the intensity of pesticide use for several middle income countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Cameroon, Malaysia and Thailand. Complementing our analysis with data from the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC), we show that hazardous pesticides covered in the PIC procedure are more weakly regulated in lower than in higher income countries. We discuss the policy challenges facing developing countries with a rapid growth in pesticide use and recommend a four-pronged strategy, including an environmental tax on pesticides with revenues allocated to long-term investments in awareness building, the development of integrated crop management methods and the setting of food safety standards. The interactions between these measures should help contribute to the effectiveness of the overall strategy package.