Is bank staff interaction associated with customer saving behavior in banks?

Major changes are underway in the U.S. retail banking sector toward heavy investments in technology and fewer in personnel. Using the 2017 survey of household economics and decision‐making (SHED) (n = 11,359), we examine the relationship between saving behavior related to emergency, long‐term and periodic expenses and personal, technological, and hybrid bank account access methods. Binary logistic regression models were used to estimate the odds of reporting various saving behaviors in relation to various banking access methods. Findings suggest that the personal access method is positively associated with savings behavior for periodic expenses for the general population, and negatively associated with emergency savings in people with lower education attainment. Technology is associated with all types of saving behavior, while the hybrid access method is associated only with saving for periodic expenses. As investments in self‐service technology increase, the importance of access methods to savings behavior must be considered.     

Abuse of Market Dominance Under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law: The Case of Tetra Pak

Review of Industrial Organization - In this paper, we analyze a recent antitrust case of abuse of dominance that was decided by a Chinese administrative enforcement agency under China’s...     

农村税费改革后乡镇财政面临的困难与对策

农村税费改革一方面促进了乡镇财政的规范化,另一方面也使乡镇财政面临更加严重的收支缺口和债务压力,并最终影响农村基层政权的正常运行.税费改革对乡镇财政带来的负面影响并非改革本身所致,而是由于相关的配套改革没有及时跟上造成的.解决乡镇财政困难的思路和对策是,调整中央与地方财力分配比例,理顺政府间分配关系;合理划分中央与地方的税收管理权限,逐步建立相对独立和完整的地方税体系;尽快建立规范的政府转移支付制度,加大对困难地区的转移支付;审慎解决乡镇债务问题,化解乡镇财政风险;努力构建乡镇公共政府和公共财政.     

随机生产前沿方法的发展及其在中国的应用

本文对随机前沿生产函数模型的发展及其在中国生产率分析中的应用进行了评述。文章首先介绍随机前沿方法的基本原理、估计方法和在面板数据下对全要素生产率增长的分解,随后评述随机前沿生产函数模型的最新进展和在经验分析中的优势与作用,最后总结了在中国行业和地区经济增长研究中随机前沿方法的成果和不足,并探讨今后研究的发展方向。     

供应链管理的履约策略研究

供应链企业间的合作能力、高价值顾客等是影响供应链管理的主要因素。通过对合作企业特点及运行环境、顾客关系资产管理进行比较分析，提出了限制例外、建立退货等履约策略。     

中国保险资金直接入市的必要性和可行性分析

随着中国加入WTO的步伐加快，中国保险业面临着越来越严峻的经营危机，从而中国保险资金直接入市将成为当前化解中国保险业经营危机的有效途径。     

改进后的PERT方法在进度风险分析中的应用

风险分析是进度控制中的重要内容。针对经典PERT网络的假设和计算过程,分析出它存在的三方面缺陷。并提出解决问题的三种具体措施,从概率论与数理统计的角度,对关键线路和关键工作进行了重新定义和确定的方法。     

论科学发展观以人为本的新意蕴

科学发展观作为中国社会的国家发展战略思想，坚持“以人为本”的中心向度，承继唯物史观人学理论，赋予了科学发展观深刻的、新的人本主义内涵。     

创业初期如何构建企业核心竞争力

首先论述了创业企业初期所面临的诸多问题,并通过对所面临各个问题产生原因的分析,指出了创业企业要想最终成功创业,其关键在于识别出创业初期构建核心竞争力的各个因素,并由此着手进行构建。     

An Average Derivative Estimation of Stochastic Frontiers

This paper utilizes the average derivative estimation of Stoker (1986) and the pesudo-likelihood estimation of Fan, Li, and Weersink (1996) to estimate a semiparametric stochastic frontier regression, y = g(x) + , where the function g(.)is unknown and is a composite error in a standard setting. The proposed semiparametric method of estimation is applied to data on farmers' credit unions in Taiwan. Empirical results show that the banking services of the farmers' credit unions is subject to economies of scale, but high degree of cost inefficiency in operation.