企业社会责任报告与公开债务融资

本文以2016—2018年沪深两市A股非金融类上市公司为样本,研究企业社会责任报告与公开债务融资的关系.研究发现,披露企业社会责任报告显著提高了企业公开债务融资的成功率和规模;企业社会责任报告质量越高,对企业公开债务融资选择、规模的正向影响越大;相较于民营企业而言,国有企业披露社会责任报告对公开债务融资的影响更为明显.进一步研究发现,相较于应规披露、未披露企业社会责任报告的上市公司而言,自愿披露对公开债务融资具有显著正向影响;市场化水平较高的地区,披露企业社会责任报告对公开债务融资具有显著促进作用,市场化水平较低的地区则不具有明显影响.     

Information Entropy-Based Housing Spatiotemporal Dependence

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics - In the existing housing literature, there has been no academic consensus on how to combine the spatial dependence and the temporal dependence...     

Further Mining the Predictability of Moving Averages: Evidence from the US Stock Market

Most studies on the predictability of moving average (MA) technical analysis use the discrete (buy/sell) trading recommendations. However, it is possibly incomplete or unreliable to explore the predictability of MA by only employing its generated trading signals. To further explore the forecastability of MA, we study its measurable impact on the stock market returns by using a conventional predictive regression framework. Our empirical study on the US stock market with respect to more detailed price information finds, (i) that the proposed predictor, MADP (MA based on daily prices) shows significant predictability in‐ and out‐of‐sample, and significantly outperforms the historical average (HA) benchmark as well as the MA based on monthly prices, (ii) that the predictability of MADP centers on the short‐term lags (within the most recent 10 days) and disappears when lags are beyond 20 days, and (iii) that the economic evaluation of the portfolios based on trading strategies confirms the superior performance of MADP with short‐term lags against the benchmark even though considering transaction costs.     

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.     

煤运吃紧暴露铁路运力不足

铁路运输纷纷告急 由于冬季以来气温急剧变化,2003年用电高峰提前到来,发电用煤需求随之剧增,而运力一时难以提高,导致许多电厂煤炭库存减少,煤炭中转港口场存减少.2003年11月份秦皇岛港日均到车较10月份日均减少346辆,由于煤炭调入不足,79种内贸煤炭绝大多数都出现短缺,煤炭运输持续迟滞.     

苏南、苏中和苏北对外开放度与经济增长关系的实证分析

一个国家或地区的经济开放程度涉及很多方面，如贸易国际化、资本国际化、劳动力跨国流动、技术引进和输出等。基于操作上简便易行、指标上具有可比性和连续性、资料易于搜集和量化等原则，本文拟选择出口额、实际利用外商直接投资额与GDP建立对外开放度这一指标。通常情况下，有些学者还会考虑国际投资开放度这个指标，但是．在计划计算苏南、苏中及苏北的国际投资开放度这一指标时发现：一方面由于统计资料的限制．另一方面由于苏南、苏中及苏北的对外投资数额很小，     

开拓进取培养应用型人才

高等职业教育发展到今天已经取得了显著的成果，教育工作者总结出了许多成功经验。我们认为以市场为导向、全力开拓办学领域是高等职业教育持续发展的源泉；“产学研”结合可增加教育效益；办学特色决定人才的竞争力和专业发展的生命力。高等职业教育只有全力开拓办学领域和不断扩大市场，才具有旺盛的生命力，才能健康、快速地向前发展。     

浅析高校后勤财务管理

高校后勤财务管理存在资产流失严重、收入与成本费用核算不够规范、财务管理制度不够完善、工作效率不高等问题，应采取理顺关系、改变观念、建章立制、规范管理、转变职能、加强队伍建设等措施予以完善。