Rice Price under Pressure

Early in April, the FOB (Free on Board) value of rice exported from Bangkok, Thailand, the biggest rice exporter of the world, surged to a new high of US$730per ton, representing an increase of 70 percent in recent years, and setting a new record over the past 34 years of Thailand rice exports.     

近代中国侵权行为用语考略

侵权行为用语在近代中国的引入与确立历经以下阶段： 19世纪在华外国人水平和方式不一的少量译述,展现了关于侵权行为的早期汉语表达,但未能形成恰当对译词并产生影响;20世纪初,移植于日本的“不法行为”成为清末表述侵权行为的一般用语;《大清民律草案》首次采用“侵权行为”一词,该词在民国得到沿用,并于民国北京政府时期成为通称。近代中国采用“侵权行为”这一名称,缘于继受了日本学者依其本国规范形成的侵权行为概念,但侵权行为规范主要取法德国,因此法律名称的自身意义与制度意义不能契合,“侵权行为”一词的合理性也受到一些民国学者质疑。尽管如此,近代中国采用“侵权行为”仍属相对合理的选择。     

技术性贸易壁垒对我国农产品出口的影响与对策

21世纪以来我国农产品贸易增长迅速,正逐步迈向农产品贸易大国。但在农产品出口贸易量连续增长的同时,国外对我国农产品设立的技术性贸易壁垒也呈现出增长的态势,技术性贸易壁垒已经成为阻碍我国农产品出口的第一大非关税壁垒。因此,深入剖析当前技术性贸易壁垒对我国农产品出口贸易造成的消极影响,并提出相应对策,有利于我国农产品出口贸易的发展和农产品出口竞争力的提高。     

Symbolic violence and marketing ECRs in the neoliberal University

ABSTRACT

This paper uses symbolic violence as one way of interpreting the lived experiences of early career researchers (ECRs) in the neoliberal University. We focus on marketing ECRs as business schools epitomise the highly market-mediated, performative, and managerialist ideology of the contemporary neoliberal University which facilitates symbolic violence. Specifically, marketing education, with its orientation towards market logic, has been identified as aligning with the neoliberal paradigm. We draw on qualitative narrative interviews with 16 United Kingdom and Australian ECRs in marketing to demonstrate how symbolic violence is produced and reproduced through institutions, ideology, language and discourse, and social relations. We find that while ECRs are not entirely subjugated by symbolic violence in the neoliberal University – with some participants displaying critically reflexive awareness and resistance, we also find that they can be complicit and serve to reproduce the system through seeking to learn and play the game of academia, rather than change it. We argue that symbolic violence offers a framework to help conceptualise the neoliberal University. Further, we submit that instrumental advice to marketing ECRs on how to navigate a life in academia is not enough and that critical reflexivity, resistance, and social action to oppose symbolic violence and the ideology of the neoliberal University is required to achieve emancipation.     

战后初期日本经济恢复机理刍议

日本经济在战后初期的恢复时期之所以能够迅速从战败后的阴影中走出来,恢复了经济实力,并为高速增长奠定基础,其机理非简单的重建可以概括。一方面,日本经济本身在战争中所受损失并不像渲染的那么严重;另一方面,日本作为战败国更有其非战败则不可得的意外好处。同时,不容忽视的是,二战后世界政治格局的演变使日本经济命运有了奇迹般的转机,不仅免受惩罚,而且大享美国主导下世界经济体系的利益。     

大数据视阈下资产证券化基础资产风险重构--以互联网消费信贷信用分析为例

针对近年来我国互联网行业推出的互联网消费信贷以及2015年以来将消费者信贷资产证券化后向投资者推出的现象,本文立足于传统信贷风险的分析并同时考虑资产证券化会为消费者信贷带来的风险因素,力图探讨这类新兴互联网金融产品的风险控制问题,同时证明建立互联网征信系统的迫切性。在分析中涉及到对于目前我国征信系统的发展概况以及大数据时代之下互联网金融征信的发展可期的方向;并与美国新兴成熟互联网征信平台ZestFinance进行对比,旨在为我国互联网消费信贷资产证券化征信平台建立提出发展的思路。     

Social mobility in the early middle ages

Estimates of inequality of living standards based on average height differences between socioeconomic strata are likely biased if the social status of some individuals changed during their lifetime. Height differences estimated from skeletal remains, reflecting living standards during childhood and adolescence, are probably too small if social status is inferred based on grave goods which are associated with the individuals’ social status at the time of their death. The higher the level of social mobility, the more distinguished individuals will not have had a privileged childhood and, therefore, have the biological characteristics of the disadvantaged group. In a newly assembled sample of individual level anthropometric data from 26 early medieval row grave cemeteries in south-western Germany, men buried with a long sword in their grave were on average about 3 cm taller than the others. In a simple model of the mechanics of the social-mobility bias, this height difference, together with parameters from the literature, implies a level of social mobility typical of small-scale agricultural or pastoral societies.     

Acceptance of buyout offers in the face of downsizing: empirical evidence from the Korean electronics industry

Using a sample of 812 employees in a major Korean electronics company, this study examines the predictors of acceptance of buyout incentives. As in the retirement research, the results here suggest that employees are more likely to accept buyouts the larger the size of the incentive, the older they are at the time of the offer and the poorer their health. However, in contrast to early retirement research, the results here suggest that it is the better performers, those whose spouses are still in the workforce and those who have already declined previous incentives who are most likely to accept buyout incentives in early and mid-career. This study also highlights five differences between American-based and Korean-based firms in their use of early buyout offers. Korean employees were more likely to accept buyout offers the higher their salary, while in the US salary and acceptance of such offers are typically inversely related. Also, while US firms focus on buyout incentives for older workers, Korean firms will often target workers in their thirties and forties. Korean firms typically offer one-time, lump-sum bonuses as departure incentives, whereas American firms are more likely to add years of age and/or service in calculating pension benefits. While US firms often offer some type of part-time employment contract to their early retirees, Korean firms often prohibit this arrangement. Finally, compared to the US, the greater stigma associated with interfirm mobility in Korea cuts against the acceptances of these offers.     

基于扩散指数模型的房地产市场景气循环研究——以北京市为例

基于扩散指数模型构建房地产市场景气循环指标体系，采用北京市住宅市场与经济基本面的历史数据，计算不同时期北京市房地产市场的扩散指数，绘制北京市房地产市场的景气循环曲线，并根据景气循环曲线与历史数据对北京市未来房地产市场的景气情况进行预测。最后，提出在上述市场预测情况下的市场调控策略。     

Organisational and professional commitment of early career accountants: do mentoring and organisational ethical climate matter?

This study assesses the effects of mentoring and organisational ethical climate (OEC) on the organisational and professional commitment (PC) of early career accountants (ECAs) (i.e. accounting graduate recruits with three or less years of working experience). The empirical data are based on a questionnaire survey from 86 ECAs in Australian public accounting firms, and hypothesis testing utilises partial least squares analysis. Our results indicate when a career development style of mentoring is adopted there is greater organisational as well as PC. By contrast, a social support mentoring style has no significant impact on organisational commitment (OC) and a negative effect on PC. Further, our data also reveal OEC to be positively associated with OC, and OC in turn having a positive impact on PC. The results imply that fostering a career‐focused mentoring environment and an OEC can increase an ECA's OC and PC. These results have various implications for human resource management at both the accounting firm and professional levels.