The heterogeneous relationship between board social ties and corporate environmental responsibility in an emerging economy

Firms in emerging economies are faced with multiple, incompatible institutional forces in their environmental activities. Which of these forces will be dominant and instantiated within an organization is partly determined by the social relationships that a firm maintains with external actors. This paper investigates the relationship between board social ties and the level of environmental responsibility undertaken by firms in China, an emerging economy, by categorizing board social ties into three types in terms of the three isomorphic forces in the institutional field (coercive, normative and mimetic). Drawing on institutional and agency theories, using a sample of listed firms in environmentally sensitive industries, and a generalized least squares regression method, the results provide empirical evidence that ties that are linked to coercive and normative forces (i.e., political organizations and universities) are related to a higher level of environmental responsibility; however, those that are linked to mimetic forces (i.e., industrial peers) have a negative association with environmental responsibility, which is mitigated by CEO power. These findings suggest that the heterogeneous effects of board social ties on environmental responsibilities experienced by firms in a context of environmentalism are at an early stage.     

后疫情下休闲体育产业高质量发展的推进策略

新冠疫情以来,人们的健康意识觉醒,体育产业越来越受重视,本文通过对疫情期间体育产业受到的影响进行分析,从体育消费、体育产品中小企业、体育赛事几个方面阐述了疫情以来体育产业受到的阻碍。凡事都有两面性,疫情也为体育产业带来了新的机遇,"线上+线下"融合、新兴产业的崛起、人们健康意识的加强都因为疫情带来了新的发展动力。在后疫情时代,政府应该推出新的政策与措施鼓励体育产业发展,市场则应该抓住机遇实现体育产业的供给侧改革,通过与新兴产业、互联网等的结合,推动体育产业的转型升级。     

污染源在线监测现状与优化建议

随着我国工业化进程的不断推进,在提升我国经济发展速度的同时,也带来了巨大的自然环境污染现象,特别是受到传统管理模式的影响,行业生产过程中缺乏环境保护意识,不仅造成了生产资源的大量浪费还在一定程度上影响了自然生态系统的可持续发展,对我国经济和自然生态均造成了极大损害.随着我国科技技术的不断发展和推进以及环保意识的增强,国家有关部门加大了环境保护管理的工作力度.本文主要分析污染源在线监测技术相关内容以及应用重要性,在分析存在的现状问题基础之上,开展污染源在线监测优化策略的探析,以期为我国环境保护工作提供一定参考价值.     

Does bank competition promote financial inclusion? A cross-country evidence

The idea of financial inclusion has recently been discussed as one of the key strategies to enhance economic development (World Bank 2014). We move this discussion forward by examining if bank competition is a crucial component enforcing financial inclusion, which is arguably a finance supply-side driven process. In this study, we compute the financial inclusion index built on Sarma (2008) approach to better reflect banks’ willingness and capability to provide financial services. Applying System Generalized Method of Moments to the panel of 93 countries, we find that bank competition promotes financial inclusion.     

延迟退休年龄下隔代抚育与劳动参与的抉择*——基于工资收入随机性假定的研究

隔代抚育会对延迟退休年龄政策在促进劳动力供给上产生挤出效应。为了对此进行验证，本文在工资收入随机性的假定及延迟退休5年的情景下，模拟了面临孙辈照护需求的女性临近退休者提前退休所产生的福利变化。进一步，本文采用CHIP和CHARLS的微观调查数据，对不同群组的收入增长率和收入风险进行了估计，继而分析了当面临孙辈照护需求时这些收入特征对退休决策者制度退休和退休后劳动参与抉择产生的影响。总体上，在延迟退休年龄政策下，隔代抚育将对女性劳动力供给产生挤出效应。当面临孙辈照护需求时，女性临近退休者的制度退休抉择主要受自身收入增长率和收入风险的影响，收入增长率越低，或收入风险越高，她们提前退休的意愿就越强烈；制度退休后的劳动参与则更多地受子女收入增长率的影响，子女收入增长率越高，劳动参与的概率越低。     

增额投资回收期判断指标的缺陷分析

本文讨论了投资方案优劣比较的客观标准,论证了现行增额投资回收期指标判断方案优劣时存在的缺陷,指出准确的比较方法依然是方案自身投资回收期指标间的直接比较,并提出了改进办法。     

政策要闻

原油、成品油进出口配额 将由商务部对外贸易司统管 国务院机构改革以后,我国原油、成品油、化肥等能源产品的进出口配额、进出口权等将全部划归新成立的商务部对外贸易司统一管理。国务院办公厅已发出通知,明确了商务部的14项主要职责,其中第四条为:“研究制定进口商品管理办法和进出口配额计划,确定配额、发放许可证;拟订和执行进出口商品配额招标政策。”     

发展区域文化激发创造活力--关于加强柳州市文化建设的思考

文章在探讨区域文化的战略意义的基础上,阐述了加强柳州市文化建设的战略意义、指导思想、遵循的基本原则,探讨了推进柳州文化建设的对策,提出了通过实施十大工程和系列保障措施来促进柳州文化发展的思想.     

Fiscal decentralization, revenue and expenditure assignments, and growth in China

Theory suggests that a close match between revenue and expenditure assignments at sub-national levels benefits allocative efficiency, and hence economic growth. That is, a convergence of revenue and expenditure assignments at sub-national levels of government should, according to the theory, be positively associated with a higher growth rate. In the case of China, this paper shows, divergence, rather than convergence, in revenue and expenditures at the sub-national level of government is associated with higher rates of growth. A panel dataset for 30 provinces in China is used to examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth over two phases of fiscal decentralization in China: (1) 1979–1993 under the fiscal contract system, and (2) 1994–1999 under the tax assignment system. The seeming contradiction between the theory and evidence in the China case is reconciled by taking into account the institutional arrangements that prevailed during the two phases of fiscal decentralization, in particular the inconsistency between the assumptions of the theory of fiscal decentralization and the institutional reality of China.     

体育课是德育教育的重要环节

德育教育应放在学校教育之首,充分发挥体育教学的特点和优势,寓德育教育于体育教学之中,培养学生学会做人、学会求知、学会生活、学会审美、学会健体.