How do controversial foreign country images affect consumers?

Research shows that controversial political–economic, social, and environmental country images affect consumer responses to foreign products. This study adds to the existing evidence by examining the contingent role of subjective country knowledge and (domestic vs. foreign) country image congruence in the relationships between foreign country image and two major determinants of country-driven (anti-)consumption: foreign product judgements and consumer animosity. The findings draw on survey data (N = 400) on Spanish consumers' views of China and Chinese apparel products. The results indicate that higher subjective knowledge about social and environmental issues (negatively) affecting the foreign country can lead to attenuated (positive) relationships between such country images and foreign product judgements. Further, more negative foreign product judgements can result from incongruent country images—that is, when consumers are more critical of the foreign than of their home country in political–economic, social, and environmental areas. Instead, there is limited support for the hypotheses involving consumer animosity as an outcome. Implications for theory, policy, and practice are discussed.     

Outward foreign investment by transnational entrepreneurs: Insights from emerging economies

This research considers how transnational entrepreneurs in emerging economies identify and develop opportunities for investment into international ventures. Specifically, this study seeks to identify common drivers for outward investment by transnational entrepreneurs from their country of origin (Brazil and India) to their adopted country (the US). Findings indicate three common drivers of this type of internationalization: formal education, effectual logic, and the leveraging of perceived market differences. Furthermore, the data show that entrepreneurs prefer a gradual process of investment rather than a large-scale initial investment during the exploitation of international opportunities in the adopted country. The results of this study have important practical implications and are valuable additions to the scholarly understanding of the growing field of transnational entrepreneurship.     

Crypto quanto and inverse options

Over 90% of exchange trading on crypto options has always been on the Deribit platform. This centralized crypto exchange only lists inverse products because they do not accept fiat currency. Likewise, other major crypto options platforms only list crypto–stablecoin trading pairs in so-called direct options, which are similar to the standard crypto options listed by the CME except the US dollar is replaced by a stablecoin version. Until now a clear mathematical exposition of these products has been lacking. We discuss the sources of market incompleteness in direct and inverse options and compare their pricing and hedging characteristics. Then we discuss the useful applications of currency protected “quanto” direct and inverse options for fiat-based traders and describe their pricing and hedging characteristics, all in the Black–Scholes setting.     

论资产评估与会计的关系

资产评估与会计是既有区别又有联系的专业服务活动,本文通过讨论两者之间的关系,使我们明确会计提供以事实判断为主要内容的服务,资产评估提供以价值判断为主要内容的服务,它们都是现代市场经济赖以正常运行的基础服务行业。使我们更深刻地认识资产评估,更好地利用会计信息为评估服务,从而提高资产评估质量。     

中国资产短缺状况研究

本文通过“C I指数”法对中国的资产短缺状况进行估算。研究表明,早在2000年,中国就已进入到资产短缺阶段。该期间部分时期内,中国的资产短缺状况虽有所逆转,但这更多的是源于项目追加贷款、各微观经济主体大幅增持短期存款、国内国民储蓄增幅有限甚至下降、资本跨国流入逆转所致。进一步研究发现,刺破资产泡沫所面临的风险以及对微观主体过度冒险行为干预能力的不足,要求政府短期内应实施“泡沫分类管理”措施来积极应对因资产短缺引起的资产泡沫。     

浅析交易性金融资产与可供出售金融资产的会计处理

现行企业会计准则将金融资产进行了严格的分类,并对各类金融资产的确认、计量进行了明确规定。交易性金融资产与可供出售金融资产的会计处理有类似之处,但也有不同。本文通过实例对二者的会计处理进行浅析。     

Is energy consumption sensitive to foreign capital inflows and currency devaluation in Pakistan?

This study investigates the relationship between foreign capital inflows and energy consumption by incorporating economic growth, exports and currency devaluation in energy demand function for the case of Pakistan. The long-run and short-run effects are examined via ARDL bounds testing procedure. Foreign capital inflows and currency devaluation (economic growth and exports) decrease (increase) energy consumption in long-run. The results confirm a feedback effect between foreign capital inflows and energy consumption. These findings would be helpful to policy makers in designing comprehensive economic and energy policies for utilizing foreign capital inflows as a tool for optimal use of energy sources to enhance economic development in long run.     

新保守主义与布什的单边主义政策

新保守主义作为一种政治思想,从里根、老布什、克林顿、小布什、到现在的奥巴马政府。在不同的时期都对美国的外交政策产生了不同程度的影响,经历了它的产生、发展、繁极一时、最终一蹶不振。那么新保守主义对布什政府的外交产生了什么影响呢？在奥巴马时期又有什么变化吗？     

上市公司资产负债率行业影响的实证研究--对已有研究结论的质疑

文章从行业的角度对沪深A股上市公司的资产负债率进行了较为深入的研究。与国内一些学者的研究结果不同,文章研究发现:(1)行业对资产负债率具有显著影响,但这种影响的力度相当微弱;(2)资产负债率的行业差异并不具有普遍性;(3)同一行业内的资产负债率并不具有相似性,且行业内的差异要大于行业间的差异;(4)上市公司并不存在最优的行业资产负债率;(5)大部分行业的资产负债率与其行业特性不符。     

Natural resources, capital accumulation and the resource curse

Early concern by economists for the effect of natural capital on economic growth gave way to complacency and neglect during the nineteenth century. Evidence has emerged, however, that since the 1960s the economic performance of low-income countries has been inversely related to their natural resource wealth. This relationship is not a deterministic one so policy counts. SEEA can help improve the policy and performance of resource-abundant low-income countries by reinforcing the rationale for the sound management of natural resources and also by providing an index of policy sustainability in the form of the net saving rate. This policy index, along with other measures such as a capital fund for sterilizing the rent, initiatives to increase the transparency of rent flows and the rigorous evaluation of alternative uses of additional public sector revenue can improve the efficiency by which natural resource rent is transformed into alternative forms of capital to sustain rising social welfare. Chad and Mauritania provide case studies to illustrate how SEEA and net saving can be used to diagnose policy failure and improve economic performance.