Corporate Stock and Bond Return Correlations and Dynamic Adjustments of Capital Structure

This paper analyses the effects of dynamic correlations between stock and bond returns issued by the same firm on the speed of adjustment towards target leverage. The results show that the estimated correlations are time varying, show persistence and differ among firms. Analysis of the potential explanatory variables reveals that the correlations decrease with negative expectations about future aggregate risks, but only for firms with a low default probability. In contrast, correlations are positively associated with specific risk measures, especially idiosyncratic stock risk and financial leverage. The positive relationship between the correlations and the leverage ratio suggests that target leverage can be achieved faster when the stock–bond correlation is high. Our results show that this is the case.     

Value Orientations, Income and Displacement Effects, and Voluntary Contributions

Identifying the value orientations of subjects participating in market or non-market decisions by having them participate in a ring game may be helpful in understanding the behaviour of these subjects. This experiment presents the results of changes in the centre and the radius of a value orientations ring in an attempt to discover if the measured value orientations exhibit income or displacement effects. Neither significant income effects nor displacement effects are identified. An external validity check with a voluntary contribution game provides evidence that value orientations from rings centred around the origin of the decision-space explain significant portions of voluntary contributions while value orientations from displaced rings do not.     

延迟退休、个人账户调整与城镇职工医疗保险基金可持续运行

文章通过构建精算模型,从城镇职工医疗保险基金可持续运行的角度对不同延迟退休和个人账户调整方案及组合进行模拟评估。研究发现:现行制度下城镇职工医疗保险统筹基金面临支付风险,延迟退休仅能够在短期内缓解城镇职工医疗保险基金的支付压力;仅依靠延迟退休难以在长期内缓解城镇职工医疗保险基金的支付压力,运用“延迟退休+个人账户调整”的模式,即在延迟退休的基础上对个人账户进行调整,更有利于基金的长期稳定运行。在现行退休制度下,建议取消个人账户,将单位缴费和个人缴纳的费用计入统筹账户,城镇职工医疗保险基金的单位缴费率可以下调1%;在延迟退休政策势在必行的情况下,建议在男性和女性不同岁退休的基础上,取消个人账户,实现城镇职工医疗保险单位缴费率降低2%。这样既有利于基金的可持续运行,也可以保证基金的运行效率,更能加强城镇职工医疗保险制度的互助共济性。     

核心自我评价与个体创新行为:集体主义导向的调节作用

在区分个体创造力和创新的基础上,文章考察了225名企业员工的核心自我评价、集体主义导向与上司评定的创新行为的关系.结果表明个体创新过程中的创意产生和创意实施行为正相关;核心自我评价与创意产生正相关,但与创意实施无显著相关关系;集体主义导向在核心自我评价与创意产生和实施行为关系中均起调节作用:对集体主义导向较强的员工来说,核心自我评价对创新行为的影响反而较弱,对低集体主义导向的员工来说,核心自我评价对创新行为的影响则相对较强.文章最后对研究结果进行了讨论,并指出了研究的贡献与不足.     

企业家精神发展路径及研究方法概述

企业家精神的发展路径大致可以分为三个层面：个人层面、企业层面、社会层面。三个层面相互融合又逐步推进,从个人层面到企业层面再到社会层面呈稳步推进的态势。企业家精神发展路径是企业家精神研究方法的基础,在这个基础上形成的研究方法对深化企业家精神的研究具有指导意义。     

新农保基金筹集问题探析——基于对河南省内黄县的调查

作为河南省首批新农保试点县,内黄县新农保基金筹集过程中存在诸如财政筹资比例相对较低,集体补助形同虚设,个人缴费档次低等问题。针对这些问题,应当适当提高财政筹资部分比例,增加村集体补助,提高个人缴费档次,重视将近60岁人口的缴费问题。     

Understanding precedents for frontline employee turnover in luxury hotels: Emotional intelligence as a unifying factor

Current turnover research fails to serve the needs of an industry that is long plagued by employee turnover. Existing literature focuses more on evaluating bundles of human resource practices and fail to provide precise and clear guidance for practitioners. This study proposes that emotional intelligence (EI) unifies sufficient individual factors and organizational factors that affect employee turnover and serves as a single significant precedent for turnover. Data were collected from frontline employees at eight luxury hotels. The direct, indirect, and total impacts of employee EI on employee turnover were tested by structural equation modeling and bootstrap tests. The results suggest that EI has significant indirect impacts through the mediation of perceived organizational support, pay satisfaction and job burnout, and significant total impacts on turnover. Implication suggestions include integrating EI into the recruiting process for new employees and providing training opportunities for current employees to improve their EI.     

终极控制人、机构投资者持股与上市公司股利分配

文章以2001-2007年我国上市公司为样本检验机构投资者对上市公司股利分配影响。实证表明,机构持股总体上提高上市公司股利分配的概率和水平,对公司治理起积极作用。但这种作用因终极控制人性质不同而存在显著差异,在非国有控股公司中机构投资者积极治理作用显著,而在国有控股公司中机构投资者治理作用难以充分发挥。因此,管理层应在促进机构投资者发展同时,加强制度建设,克服国有企业固有制度缺陷,为机构投资者积极治理作用发挥提供制度保障。      

境外战略投资者与国有商业银行在股权定价中的博弈

引进境外战略投资者是我国金融服务业进入全面开放后,国有商业银行改革的重要策略.其中的股权定价问题是这一改革过程中关注和讨论的重要问题,形成了多种不同的观点.在境外战略投资者与国有商业银行进行股权议价的过程中,存在着影响溢价和折价的多种因素,最终价格的确定正是双方通过多种因素博弈的结果.