Internal labour markets in the Australian banking industry: their nature prior to the Second World War and their recent decline

This paper uses evidence from late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century personnel records of two Australian banks to examine the nature of internal labour markets prior to the Second World War. It is argued that the industry possessed all the classic features of internal labour markets: limited ports of entry, internal promotion, long careers, and assignment of wages by well-defined rules. The paper then examines the reasons why banks adopted internal labour markets. Finally, the paper examines the recent decline of internal labour markets and examines the role of technological and social changes in this decline.     

Should there exist secondary markets for executive stock options?

This paper investigates the potential disadvantages of the secondary markets for executive stock options (ESOs). The benefits of such markets are evident, but they might also have negative effects for shareholders. Executives might, for example, use inside information to time their ESO selling. We investigate two personal motives of managers that can be assumed to affect their optimal selling decision, that is, managers' personal portfolio management issues and the use of inside information. We explore these motives by analyzing unique data from Finland, where there are secondary markets for ESOs. The results of the study support the traditional portfolio diversification hypothesis according to which managers tend to sell their ESOs when holding an ESO is equivalent to holding the underlying stock; that is, in such a case a manager's wealth is closely tied to the stock price of the firm. With respect to the use of inside information the results indicate that ESO selling activity is not related to future stock price behaviour, suggesting that managers do not use inside information to determine the selling time of their ESOs. These results imply that the existence of secondary markets for ESOs does not weaken the usefulness of ESOs as the management compensation, although the benefits of such markets are evident.     

Accounting for Option–based Compensation: The Economic Cost Approach

The intrinsic value approach amortizes over the life of the option, the difference between the stock price on the date of the grant and the exercise price of the option. The fair market value approach amortizes over the life of the option, the market value of stock options on the date of the grant. These approaches do not reflect the changes in the option–based compensation cost after the grant date. This paper proposes an economic cost approach that not only adjusts for the changes in the value of the options during its life but also records the issuance of the stock at fair market value on the exercise date.     

Value of Multinationality: Internalization, Managerial Self-interest, and Managerial Compensation

In this paper, we examine the impact of managerial self-interest on the value of multinationality. Since agency theory also suggests that a divergence between the interests of managers and shareholders can be aligned by effective managerial incentive, we also examine the effect of managerial compensation on the value of multinationality. Our results show that for high- Q (Tobin's Q > 1 ) firms, investors do not associate the spending of free cash flow on multinationality with the problem of overinvestments. For high- Q firms, it is also found that the value of multinationality can be enhanced by effective managerial incentives. For low- Q firms (Tobin's Q < 1 ), it is found that the concern of managerial self-interest overwhelms the benefits of internalization, making multinationality a value-decreasing event. For low- Q firms, managerial compensation is also ineffective in promoting value-enhancing foreign direct investments.     

Investment Opportunities and the Relation Between Equity Value and Employees' Bonus

A sample of firms where employee stock options and other long‐term incentives are absent but an annual bonus is required is examined. A positive relation is found between firm equity value and stock bonus but not cash bonus. The positive relation is stronger when the firm has greater investment opportunities. Additionally, the relation is shown to be nonlinear in the sense that the marginal effect of stock bonus on equity value is positive but decreasing (negative) when the stock bonus is below (above) the breakpoint. Overall, the annual stock bonus is valued positively by investors even though it is linked to the firm's contemporaneous but not future performance.     

论我国土地征收补偿制度之完善

我国征地补偿标准以耕地常年产值为依据,以被征地农民的利益为代价来换取城市的发展建设,与当前我国的市场经济体制不相适应.发达国家的土地征收补偿制度为我国土地征收补偿制度的完善提供了宝贵借鉴.我国土地征收补偿制度可通过提高补偿标准、完善土地征收补偿方式、建立和完善失地农民社会保障制度等方式逐步完善.     

主体功能区生态补偿标准研究

建立合理的生态补偿标准对于区域协调发展具有重要的意义。以主体功能区划为背景,通过分析作为保护型功能区的苏北某县为实现生态系统服务功能所付出的成本,并依据区位熵理论确定成本分担系数,核算外部应承担的生态补偿标准,得出该县2010-2020年应得到的生态补偿金额为52.8亿元。设计了以为实现主体功能区划而产生的生态成本来进行核算的方式,为明确主体功能区划的生态补偿标准带来了便利。     

高管薪酬、激励与公司业绩关系研究述评

关于公司业绩与高管薪酬的关系,很难用一个简单的线性关系来解答。无论是委托代理理论、信号理论、激励理论,还是契约理论,都有诸多的假设前提;而利用上市公司数据的实证研究结论又依赖于数据样本、计量方法以及公司薪酬、业绩等代理变量;因而,无论是实证研究还是理论模型研究,对公司业绩与高管薪酬的关系都未有定论。在研究我国公司高管激励问题时,还应将经济制度、法制乃至人文环境加入激励模型。     

吉林省农用地生态服务功能价值时空演化研究

[目的]该研究从农用地的功能出发,以吉林省9个地市(州)作为研究对象,研究吉林省农用地生态服务功能价值时空演化规律。[方法]运用影子工程法、碳税法、造林成本法和替代法等多种方法测算2005—2015年吉林省农用地的生态服务功能价值,并运用Ar GIS10. 2对2005—2015年吉林省农用地生态服务功能的时空演变进行研究。[结果](1) 2005—2015年辽源市、白山市、四平市、松原市、通化市和延边州等农用地生态服务功能价值分别下降为-24. 33%、-22. 69%、-15. 88%、-12. 53%、-12. 09%、-5. 34%;(2) 2005—2015年白城市、吉林市和长春市农用地生态服务功能价值上升为25. 9%、7. 83%、0. 21%;(3) 2005—2015年吉林省林地和耕地的生态服务功能价值大于草地和水域的生态服务功能价值。[结论] 2005—2015年吉林省农用地生态服务功能价值存在着空间差异,呈现东高西低之势,究其原因是因为吉林省东部地区为低山丘陵地带,林地、水域面积大,生态环境保护比较好,而中西部地区为松辽平原,耕地面积较大,林地和草地面积较小,且伴随经济发展,城市发展不断蚕食农用地,使得农用地面积减少所致。研究结果旨在为保护生态环境、完善农用地价值补偿制度、保护农用地等方面政策的制定提供理论依据。     

基于并联FIR滤波器组的Hammerstein预失真器

采用预失真技术对功率放大器的记忆非线性失真进行补偿的关键是预失真器建模的准确性,尤其是模型对功率放大器逆记忆特性的描述能力。针对目前预失真器模型对功率放大器逆记忆效应描述不充分的问题,提出了将查找表(LUT)级联一个具有并联结构的有限长单位冲激响应(FIR)滤波器组作为实现形式的Hammerstein预失真器,以提高传统Hammerstein预失真器的补偿性能,并采用一种两步算法对其参数进行辨识。仿真实验表明,提出的Hammerstein预失真器能更好地补偿带强记忆效应的功率放大器的非线性失真。