The Costs of Increasing Transparency

In their seminal paper, Morris and Shin (Amer Econ Rev 92(5): 1521–1534, 2002a) argued that increasing the precision of public information is not always beneficial to social welfare. Svensson (Amer Econ Rev 96: 448–451, 2006) however has disputed this by saying that although feasible, the conditions for which this was true, were not all that likely. In that respect, therefore, increasing ‘transparency’ remains most of the times beneficial to social welfare. In this paper, we extend the Morris and Shin attempt by setting it up as an explicit interactive game between the Central Bank, the objectives of which we model explicitly, and the private sector. We show that in the absence of costs, both players benefit from transparency in the manner described previously in the literature, and point the differences in their gains. Following that, we then introduce the fact that increasing transparency comes at some costs and show how both players face incentives to free ride on each other as a result. The presence of costs thus alters the way in which greater transparency is attained.

基于“博弈人”假设的民营企业员工招聘问题分析

随着民营企业的迅速发展,人力资源成了21世纪民营企业最重要的战略资源,而员工招聘是民营企业获取优秀人力资源的主要渠道。员工招聘过程是应聘者和企业双向选择的过程。本文基于"博弈人"假设,将招聘过程看成是一个招聘者与应聘者双方博弈的过程,并在内部招聘和外部招聘两种模式下,建立博弈模型,并探讨其博弈均衡情况,为民营企业的招聘工作提供决策参考。     

功能翻译理论观照下张家界景点介绍的文化术语英译

张家界景点介绍的英译对展示张家界的自然风光和风土人情,吸引海外游客起着重要作用。运用诺德的功能翻译理论对张家界景点介绍的文化术语英译进行了探讨,发现现有的译文存在文化术语误译等问题,并建议采用注释性增译、音译加意译等翻译策略对其进行改译。     

行为金融学的研究现状与展望

由心理学家和金融学家共同发展起来的行为金融学越来越引人注目,它以前景理论和各种行为金融模型为代表性成果,能有效分析金融市场中由于心理因素引起的投资者失误偏差和市场异象,是现代金融学理论的有益补充。未来的行为金融学如想成为现代金融理论体系的中心,或作为一门单独学科而存在,必须形成统一的理论基础、严密的分析范式、明确的研究主线、研究对象和研究方法以及建立新的基于行为的核心模型。     

Gaining legitimacy through hiring local workforce at a premium: The case of MNEs in the United Arab Emirates

This study examines the process and outcomes of cultivating external legitimacy through the employment of host country nationals by multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) affiliates in the United Arab Emirates. It builds on the literatures of both institutional theory and legitimacy. Analysis of data obtained from 48 managers of MNE's affiliates located in the UAE shows that in sectors where the employment of host country nationals is almost taken for granted such as in banking, MNEs are driven by a sense of appropriateness and social legitimacy. In contrast, in sectors where the employment level of UAE nationals is almost nonexistent, those MNEs engaging in localization are driven by the logic of economic efficiency and tend to employ nationals in order to extract rent from the government. The authors discuss the results and their managerial and policy implications.     

从勒菲维尔改写理论赏析林纾的翻译策略

林纾是我国晚清时期的翻译奇才,他的翻译作品典雅流畅,风行一时,因而他的翻译思想、翻译动机、接受环境、对原作的＂误译＂和＂不忠＂等都被深入研究和评价。他也因为对原作的＂误译＂和＂不忠＂而饱受争议。从翻译学文化操控派代表人物勒菲维尔的改写理论视角来看,林纾的＂误译＂和＂不忠＂往往是他刻意选择的结果,这实质上就是一种改写,是他在当时社会文化的操控下,对原作做出的赋予其二次生命的调整,即是林纾在中国当时社会意识形态、诗学观等因素影响下对西方文学所进行的改写。     

群体性突发事件的CAS分析——基于利益相关者理论的视角

群体性突发事件是社会风险动态演化成为公共危机的触发事件,它是一定时期内社会复杂系统中多元利益主体互动、博弈的产物。本文以建构论危机观为指导,从群体性突发事件中的利益相关者分析入手,试图在厘清多元利益主体间变动不居的关系基础上,植入群体性事件情境下的复杂适应系统理论（即CAS）分析。     

Assessing cross-cultural marketing theory and research: A commentary essay

Cross-cultural research (CCR) is extremely important for advancing understanding of the range and limits of theoretical constructs and frameworks across different cultural contexts. CCR also provides an important understanding of the differences between countries and cultures. This commentary essay examines the review conducted by Engelen and Brettel (2010) and comments on shortcomings, as well as identifying areas where more needs to be done. A critical first step is to properly define the unit of analysis. This step is particularly critical as the concept of “national culture” is becoming increasingly less relevant and the appropriate culture unit for examination is often a smaller, more homogeneous grouping within a given geographic location. This view allows more meaningful inferences to be made and controls for possible contextual confounds, as well as providing a richer understanding of the limits of national culture in an increasingly global economy.     

Organizational governance and TMT pay level adjustment

This paper analyzes how the characteristics of boards and structure of ownership moderate a firm's capacity to adjust top management team (TMT) pay levels in the face of changes in its economic and complexity conditions. Using panel data from Spanish listed companies between 2003 and 2007, the results indicate that, over time, characteristics of corporate governance system contribute to give a fundamental importance to boards and ownership structure in the determination and adjustment of TMT pay. These associations appear to be even stronger than those that in other Western European and North American countries. Both the Spanish cross-holding and concentrated firms' ownership structure, and socially intervened boards play a major role in the high levels of pay received by the TMT, which, in turn, reflect a moderate adjustment of compensation practices to variations of surrounded environment factors.     

企业社会责任与和谐劳动关系构建

结合以SA8000标准为代表的企业社会责任运动,本文将企业的成本收益纳入分析框架,通过动态最优化博弈模型考察SA8000是否有利于改善我国转型期较紧张的企业劳动关系。研究表明,在其他条件不变的情况下,我国企业缺乏改善劳动关系的动力;SA8000的影响力、国外企业的劳动关系投入等与改善劳动关系呈正相关,而通过SA8000认证的费用与其负相关;企业利润与改善劳动关系之间并非绝对的不相容,在保证企业利润的前提下,SA8000有利于改善我国企业劳动关系。