区位选择、地区差距与区域经济分割

产业的空间分布存在“倒U形曲线”。为了缩小与发达地区的差距,落后地区地方政府采取贸易和要素管制政策。这种政策导致发达地区产业的提前进入,出现了区域产业结构的趋同。为了保护本地市场,地方保护性政策得以产生并不断被自我增强,最终导致区域经济分割。通过中央政府的财政转移支付政策能够改变地方政府的最优政策选择,实现区域经济一体化。     

基金管理公司治理改革刻不容缓--关于保证我国基金业合法合规经营的探讨

合法合规经营是我国基金业健康发展的保证,而基金业的经营能否做到合法合规一定程度上依赖于督察员的监督实效。因而,强化督察员的监督职能是从公司治理角度入手保证基金业合法合规经营的关键。     

实施负所得税制的必要性和可行性

负所得税制度首先由美国芝加哥大学的米尔顿·弗里德曼提出,后来又在西方经济学界得到了发展。本文则针对我国目前存在的弱势群体、城乡收入差距和内需不足等实际问题,分析了负所得税制度在我国实施的必要性和可行性,同时还运用负所得税制度的基本思想提出了超额累退所得税制     

Sexual Orientation,Sexual History,and Inequality in the United States

Much of the literature on sexual orientation discrimination reports earnings differentials for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals when compared with heterosexuals. The General Social Survey (GSS) has previously been used due to its extensive coverage of demographic variables and sexual behavior in the United States. This study uses updated GSS data to investigate whether the income differentials found in earlier work have persisted and how estimates based on categorizing respondents according to the reported sex of their sex partners compare to estimates based on the respondents’ self-reported sexual orientation. Results for the years 2008–14 indicate that self-identification as an LGB individual and/or same-sex sexual behavior are correlated with a lower income; however, not all the results are statistically significant. In addition, there is a statistically significant negative income differential of 32 percent for men who report having had a same-sex partner at some point, but identify as straight/heterosexual.     

An empirical study of audit expectation-performance gap: The case of Libya

The purpose of this research is to empirically examine the causes of the audit expectation gap in Libya. The study builds on the frameworks developed by Porter (1993) and Porter & Gowthorpe (2004) to investigate the influence of the audit expectation gap to the auditing profession in the case of Libya. The data was collected through a questionnaire survey randomly selected members of four broad interest groups including auditors, auditees and audit beneficiaries both inside and outside the financial community were followed by in-depth interviews. A total of 988 questionnaires were distributed from which 431 questionnaires with usable responses were received from four groups. The overall usable response rate was 44%, ranging from 47% for the financial community audit beneficiaries to 41% for the auditors group. The findings of the study revealed that there exists audit expectation-performance gap and that the gap is as result of the following factors in different levels of percentages. Deficiency standards and deficient performance gaps constitute 49% and 15%, respectively, of the audit expectation-performance gap. The audit expectation-performance gap derives from society having unreasonable expectations of auditor’s significant proportion 36% of the gap. As result of the following interviews demonstrated that the objectives of auditing are not as clear to the financial statement users as they are to the auditors and the financial statement preparers in Libyan business environment. Further, we observe that reducing the expectations gap is to improve knowledge responsibilities between the auditors and user groups and understanding of the auditor’s role and responsibilities through the provision of auditing illegal acts.     

革命老区工业化、城乡差距与金融发展相关关系实证分析——以达州市为例

文章首先利用单位根检验分析了工业化、城乡差距和金融发展三个变量的平稳性。基于平稳性的结果建立了VAR模型。并在VAR模型的基础上,用脉冲响应检验、协整检验和Granger因果检验,对金融发展、工业化和城乡差距的相关关系和动态影响进行实证分析。结果发现,达州市的金融发展对工业化的促进作用表现为弱化趋势,仅在短期内能抑制城乡差距的扩大,在远期内这种抑制作用不能超长持久,因此,在革命老区,加大金融支持力度,提高金融信贷效率,对推动工业化的路径优化,抑制城乡差距扩大意义重大。     

中国城乡居民收入差距核心影响因素的变化

构建了中国城乡居民收入差距核心影响因素筛选模型,筛选出1991—2009年和1991—2013年两时段的核心影响因素。通过对比,挖掘了不同时段核心影响因素的变化。研究结果显示:城乡二元结构、经济增长速度和外商及港澳台投资占GDP比例始终是影响中国城乡居民收入差距的核心因素;第一产业增加值占GDP比重是新增的核心影响因素。     

Heterogeneity and long-run changes in aggregate hours and the labor wedge

From 1961 to 2007, U.S. aggregate hours worked increased and the labor wedge—measured as the discrepancy between a representative household׳s marginal rate of substitution and the marginal product of labor—declined substantially. The labor wedge is negatively related to hours and is often attributed to labor income taxes. However, U.S. labor income taxes increased since 1961. We examine a model with gender and marital status heterogeneity which accounts for the trends in the U.S. hours and the labor wedge. Apart from taxes, the model׳s labor wedge reflects non-distortionary cross-sectional differences in households׳ hours worked and productivity. We provide evidence that household heterogeneity is important for long-run changes in labor wedges and hours in other OECD economies.     

The prodigal son: does the younger brother always care for his parentsin old age?

Studies have shown that the older sibling often chooses to live away from his elderly parents intending to free ride on the care provided by the younger child. In the presented model, we incorporate income effects and depict a different pattern frequently observed in Eastern countries; that is, the older sibling lives near his or her parents and takes care of them in old age. By generalizing the existing model, we show three cases of elderly parents being looked after by (i) the older sibling, (ii) the younger sibling, and (iii) both siblings, depending on the relative magnitude of the income effect and the strategic incentive for one sibling to free ride on the other. Our study also investigates the effect of changes in relative income on the level of total care received by parents.     

开放式基金和基金家族业绩持续性研究

我国证券投资基金快速发展,从属于同一家基金管理公司的单个基金越来越多,形成基金家族。本文研究从单个基金和基金家族的整体两个层面,采用实证检验方法对其业绩持续性进行研究,研究表明我国开放式基金仅具有短期的业绩持续性,而基金家族的整体业绩不存在持续性,籍此结果提示投资者不应仅仅关注基金的短期业绩,应更多关注基金的长期业绩表现,规避投资中对家族和规模的偏好,关注高价值基金,才能最大程度保障资金安全和自身的利益。