支付宝缴错费别慌

正"电费充到别人家了,有什么办法能退回吗?"近日,武汉市民杨女士在用支付宝缴电费时,不小心输错账户,不知该如何处理。遇到这种情况,其实是可以挽救的。充错电费、水费、燃气费:户主带身份证和支付宝缴费凭证,到供电营业厅(或供水、天然气营业厅)调账。     

开心五分钟

加付电费顾客:“什么?一晚上要收50元?瞧你这破床,昨晚我睡在上面一夜没合眼。后来只好坐在沙发上看了几小时的书。”旅店老板:“那好,请您再加付5元钱的电费。”     

意大利智能型电表节能省钱又环保

智能型电表让意大利用户知道自己的用电量、调整用电习惯、减少电费支出。电力公司随时掌握用电信息．调整发电量、调度电力配送，可节省成本．少盖发电厂。     

天津市蓟县光源电力有限公司

蓟县光源电力有限公司成立于1999年，注册资本1000万元。公司经营范围广泛，包括电力设备安装、维护、调试；电力线路施工安装与维护，高低压线路金具加工，低压开关设备制造，电力设备、材料销售；五金交电，建筑材料，矿产品经销，天然饮品生产，家用电器，电子产品，汽车配件，化工产品（不含易燃易爆品），百货、副食品；汽车修理、物业管理、餐饮、仪表校验、汽车运输、抄表收电费等。     

大连市将实现公用事业联合收费电脑化

<正> 大连市的房租、自来水及煤气等目前系人工收费,导致居民交费难,成为市政府急待解决的难点之一。现已开展电脑收费的前期准备工作,在全市范围内重新登记和编排20万用户的帐号及与之相对应的房号、水号、煤气号和电号,整理工作正在紧张进行。电费管理     

路灯节能,关键在设计环节

为了让路灯随用随开,德国小镇莱姆葛动用了很多科技手段,可能有些人会觉得小题大做,但最后他们成功节约大笔电费,证明辛苦是值得的.     

单相智能电表

目前我国大部分家庭都采用机械式电表。机械表误差大,抄表困难,每次抄表都需要电力工作人员挨家挨户抄写电表数据,耗费了大量人力物力,同时容易出错引起电费纠纷。     

数字

2亿 1998年开始筹建的国家大剧院测算总投资额为26.88亿元。目前初步推测出现的资金缺口约在2亿元人民币左右,主要是材料全面大幅涨价,运费、电费、水费也都涨了;其次,国际汇率的变化导致成本增加。据估计,增加的费用约占国家大剧院工程总投资的7.4％。     

勇于“自责”的荷兰人

刚到荷兰时,朋友告诉我,到荷兰一定要看郁金香,郁金香给荷兰人带来了温馨,带来了人与人之间的和谐,而"自责"最能体现这种和谐。一天,我在家中接到了一个"自责"的电话。"您好,请问是梁先生吗?""是啊,您是?""我是电力公司的。""请问有什么事?""您家这个月的电费比以前     

幽默·漫画·猜猜看

保护现场 由于电费、水费涨价，妻子在家三令五申，上班前要注意关水关灯。一天中午，妻子回到家，见灯亮着，水龙头开着，丈夫却悠闲地坐在沙发上看书。妻子厉声斥责丈夫，丈夫却不慌不忙说：“今天早上是你最后离开家的，我这样做是为了保护现场。”     

Transactional Sex: Supply and Demand Among European Men Who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the Context of Local Laws

Objectives: Transactional sex (TS) is generally defined as the trading of sex for material goods. Cast within the broader context of prostitution laws, we examined variations in the sociodemographic profile of men who have sex with men engaging in TS by payment direction (buying/selling). Methods: The data were collected as part of the 38-country European Men who have sex with men Internet Survey project, conducted in 2010. Results: About 12% of respondents reported engaging in TS in the past year. TS was associated with laws, age, education, employment, and residence. Conclusions: The striking sociodemographic differences in TS by payment direction suggest a power differential and a leading role of socioeconomic factors in TS.     

Out-of-pocket vs. out-of-investment in financial advisory fees: Evidence from the lab

The implications of the method of payment to financial advisors on the behavior of individuals are of interest to economists and regulators around the globe. This paper uses an experimental approach to compare two common alternative forms of payment. The first is “out-of-pocket” (an upfront payment from a checking account), and the second is “out-of-investment” (a deferred payment from an investment portfolio account). We document that for the same financial advice, the subjects in the first treatment were willing to pay on average 25 per cent less than the subjects in the second treatment – payment following an investment outcome knowledge, where the payment was framed in terms of gains. We introduce an additional out-of-pocket payment structure where the actual payment is deferred until after the subject discovers the outcome of the investment. Thus, the design can be broken down into two distinct possible effects, an out-of-pocket vs. out-of-investment framing effect and a pre-outcome vs. post-outcome timing effect. We find that the timing effect is the key element: across out-of-pocket payment structures, the subjects were willing to pay significantly less in the pre-outcome treatment than their counterparts were in the post-outcome treatment. Our results highlight the difference between post-service and pre-service payments in a broader context, and provide an explanation for why allowing late payment, after the service has been performed and its outcome revealed, may increase the ex-ante willingness to pay for the service.     

Measuring consumer perceptions of payment mode

Although existing scales assess perceptions of money per se, none capture the mental and emotional experiences that the corporal quality of the payment mode generates. Historical and sensory associations with payment modes generate differential cognitive and emotional sensitivity in mental accounts, and influence the type, value and amount of products purchased. Although an increasing amount of attention has been devoted to the influence of payment mode on spending behavior, and little effort has been devoted to developing an appropriate measurement scale to capture consumers’ cognitive and emotional associations with payment modes. To address this gap in the literature, this study developed a conceptual and empirical framework with a sample of approximately 800 participants, and shows how the constructs and the scales capture perceptions of payment modes. The 19-item PPM scale represents four dimensions: emotions relating to cash and card based payment modes, social and personal gratification and money management. The PPM measurement scale demonstrates acceptable reliability and shows that consumer perceptions of payment modes influence spending behavior and predict ownership of financial cards in possession. The scale is useful in understanding consumer cognitive and emotional associations with payment modes, particularly the use of “owned money” and how these associations impact on payment mode choice.     

Subordinates' endorsement of an allocating leader in a commons dilemma: An equity theoretical approach

The experiment consisted of two phases. In the free-access phase, subjects in groups of three, harvested from a common, replenishable resource pool. Bogus feedback indicated that the pool was prematurely exhausted. Thereafter, in the proper experimental leader phase, an “elected” bogus leader made resource allocations. The leader's allocation behavior was varied by means of a 3 (Leader-Subordinates Comparison: Leader Over payment, Leader Equal payment, Leader Under payment) ×3 (Intersubordinate Comparison: Subject Over payment, Subject Equal payment, Subject Under payment) factorial design. As predicted, leader endorsement was weakest when the leader overpaid him/herself (Leader-Subordinates Comparison main effect) and when the subject was underpaid in comparison with the fellow subordinate (Intersubordinate Comparison main effect). The interaction effect was ascribed to three circumstances: (1) When the harvests were equally allocated, leader endorsement was strongest; (2) Leader Under payment desensitized the subject to intersubordinate comparison; (3) Subject Over payment desensitized the subject to leader-subordinates comparison.     

Child support wage withholding and father–child contact: parental bargaining and salience effects

Past research on child support finds that father–child contact increases as support payments increase. Enforcement policies such as wage withholding also may affect father–child contact even when the amount of support paid is not affected if they change bargaining power between parents or the salience of fathers’ child support obligations. I develop a model of the salience of child support obligations which predicts that introduction of automatic withholding will reduce contact between noncustodial parents and children independent of payment amount. I then examine whether paying child support via wage withholding affects fathers’ frequency of contact with their children and their provision of in-kind support using instrumental variables and bounded OLS techniques for selection on unobservables. Withholding appears to decrease father–child contact. Withholding effects do not occur when payments are made to government agencies or courts but are present when payments go directly to the mother, consistent with bargaining models. More frequent payment schedules are associated with more contact, consistent with salience effects.     

SALARIES OR PIECE RATES: ON THE ENDOGENOUS MATCHING OF HARVEST WORKERS AND CROPS

The objective of this paper is to determine whether the choice of payment schemes (hourly vs. piece rates) is systematically related to the workers' risk aversion and ability. We derive the equilibrium relationship between agents' risk aversion and ability and the power of incentives (payment scheme) in a market where many heterogeneous principals and agents are endogenously matched. The equilibrium matching between principals and agents depends on the traits and is critical in determining the contract choice. Using confidential data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS), we find evidence of matching between agricultural workers and the riskiness of their jobs (crops they harvest) based on workers' risk aversion and no matching based on ability. When controlling for matching, we find strong evidence that high risk‐averse workers choose hourly rates and low risk‐averse workers choose piece rates. We also found that high ability types choose piece rates and low ability types choose hourly rates but the evidence is weaker. (JEL J33, D82, Q12)     

“It's practical, but no more controllable”: Social representations of the electronic purse in Austria

The electronic purse (chip-card) is promoted as an option offering consumers an easy means of payment. It also offers advantages to traders and banks by reducing transaction costs. However, successful launching of the electronic purse depends mainly on consumers' acceptance, which in the past was very low in Austria. We study consumers' acceptance of the electronic purse, cash and established non-cash payment systems by analysing social representations of payment facilities. Semantic contents of associations raised in response to the stimulus words “means of payment in general”, “cash”, “cheque”, “ATM-card”, “credit-card” and “electronic purse” have been analysed. Overall, 264 people were studied applying two techniques: the “associative network” and the “conceptual network”. It is shown that means of payment are categorised on two dimensions: cash and non-cash. Non-cash payment facilities are characterised by high abstraction levels, and loss of subjective control over expenditures. The electronic purse is perceived as highly dissimilar to other means of payments.     

The composition of public sector compensation: The effects of unionization and bureaucratic size

This paper examines the effect of the political power of public sector unions on the composition of public sector compensation. Public employee unions provide a relatively low-cost vehicle for organizing workers’ political activity in support of the rent-seeking behavior of local politicians. The unions also provide a conduit for employees to capture part of these rents as payment for political services. Since the public has little interest in paying for the political activities of public workers, these payments are most likely to be made through fringe benefits so as to minimize public scrutiny. The authors would like to thank an anonymous referee for helpful suggestions. Any errors remain those of the authors.     

关于建立上海郊区差别化管理体制机制研究

建立上海郊区差别化管理体制机制的总体思路是:以主体功能区划分为基础,根据各区(县)不同的主体功能和开发任务,实施差别化政策;按照"二级市"的要求,简政放权,增强郊区自主发展权和统筹协调权;适度调整市、区财政分配体制,使郊区各区(县)事权与财权相匹配;建立和完善财政转移支付、土地利用激励、财政激励、生态发展激励和绩效考核五大机制,促进郊区差别化管理,增强郊区统筹协调发展的能力;实施"强镇扩权",创新郊区基层管理体制机制,增强郊区发展活力。上海建立郊区差别化管理体制机制,还需适当调整郊区城市建设标准、制定全市统一的公共服务资源配置和设施建设标准、增加郊区人口导入区城市管理和公共服务资源配置、规范简政放权的工作机制。     

College tuition payment and household consumption in Japan

Because tuition payment comprises a large proportion of expenses in households with children in universities, it causes large and clearly predictable changes in discretionary income in predetermined months. This study examines consumption smoothing for those households as an alternative test of the life-cycle/permanent income hypothesis, using the Japanese Family Income and Expenditure Survey. We show that a one yen decrease in discretionary income due to tuition payment is associated with 0.1–0.2 yen decrease in non-tuition spending in the month of tuition payment, showing that those households are not engaged in consumption smoothing.