第三方电子交易平台运营初期的定价策略——基于在线个人借贷市场的实证研究

实践表明,作为典型的“双边市场”,第三方电子交易平台在运营初期的定价策略对平台的生存与发展起着非常重要的作用。为了弥补当前实证研究的不足,文章以Armstrong的垄断模型为基础,采用加权两阶段最小二乘联立方程模型分析了Prosper.com在线个人借贷平台在2009年7月13日至2011年3月7日期间用户网络外部性特征和平台定价策略对借贷双方效用及平台收入的影响。结果显示：平台运营初期,用户之间存在显著正的交叉网络外部性和自网络外部性;用户价格弹性会随平台定价策略和平台的发展而变化;平台收入与用户价格弹性之间呈现负的规律性变化关系。研究结果在一定程度上反应了第三方电子交易平台运营初期特征的同时也提出了当前理论研究的不足,兼具实践和理论价值。     

The Determinants of Retail Productivity: A Critical Review of the Evidence

This paper discusses the literature on the established determinants of productivity in the retail sector. It also draws attention to some neglected strands of research which provide useful insights into strategies that could allow productivity enhancements in this area of the economy. To date, very few attempts have been made to integrate different specialisms in order to explain what drives productivity in retail. Here this paper rectifies this omission by putting together studies from economics, geography, knowledge management and employment studies. It is the authors’ view that quantitative studies of retail productivity should focus on total factor productivity in retailing as the result of competition/composition effects, planning regulations, information and communications technology, the multinational operation element and workforce skills. Further, the fact that retail firms possess advantages that are transferable between locations suggests that investment in strategies enhancing the transfer of explicit and tacit knowledge between and within businesses are crucial to achieve productivity gains.     

Private Action for Public Good?: The Public Role of Voluntary Sector Organizations

Voluntary sector organizations claim to be private institutions acting for the public good. However, if the concept of public is disengaged from the state and connected instead to citizenship, VSOs can be shown to have both private and public origins, as well as private and public impacts. As citizens, VSOs are public organizations serving the public good through their purported representation of the people and civic leadership. The legitimacy of their assumption of these public roles remains a continuing challenge.     

Shortcomings in the Measurement of Innovation: Implications for Accounting Standard Setting

Innovation is nowadays a fundamental determinant of value creation in business companies and economic growth. Therefore, the measurement of innovation has become a significant concern both for business companies and governments. Traditionally, attempts to measure innovation have adopted a macroeconomic approach, as they have been largely based on broad surveys. However, no attempt has been made to date in order to complement the information provided by such surveys with aggregated data obtained from the financial reports of individual companies. This paper analyses the conceptual and methodological problems underlying the measurement of business innovation by means of surveys and discusses the lack of ability of accounting standards to accurately reflect innovative activities in the financial statements of business firms.In the light of the evidence provided by the empirical studies published to date, we analyse the Spanish situation by reviewing innovation studies conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), and assessing the relationship between the value relevance of accounting information and the firm's technological level. Our results suggest that both, micro- and macroeconomic approaches towards the measurement of innovation have significant shortcomings. Thus, a joint effort seems to be needed in order to overcome the methodological limitations affecting innovation studies based on surveys and those relying on financial accounting information. Despite their limitations, surveys provide a sound basis for the identification of trends, key factors and explanatory variables. On the other hand, financial statements could provide a sound basis for the measurement of innovation if they included more relevant information on the intangible determinants of the value of companies. This has obvious implications for the standard setting process.     

信任与激励:价值链成本治理机制的实验研究

本文采用试验研究方法,模拟价值链节点企业交易过程,研究了信任与激励两种价值链成本治理机制的治理效果以及它们之间的作用关系。试验结果显示,高度信任与基于价值链利益的激励机制均可以有效缓解或防范合作问题、协调问题和侵占问题,对价值链成本治理具有明显的治理效果。当价值链节点企业之间缺乏信任的时候,激励机制会失去效用;信任机制与激励机制之间具有显著的互补关系。     

中国流通A股市场大盘股价指数研究

本文对我国现行股价指数计算中存在的问题进行了分析,提出了流通A股价格指数和流通A股资金指数方案。本文计算出的指数不仅有助于解决现行指数反映市场变化不充分的问题,同时还为股票市场的定量分析奠定了基础。     

浅谈地方农业院校服务新农村建设

本文分析了服务新农村建设是地方农业院校发展的机遇；阐述了地方农业院校服务新农村建设的意义和优势；提出了地方农业院校服务新农村建设的对策和建议。     

诉说离乱与建构主体——论马来西亚华人新生代的创作

马来西亚华人新生代的崛起是20世纪90年代以来马来西亚乃至东南亚华文文坛的重要现象.马来西来华人新生代在创作中甚为繁复地诉说着离乱的过往与身世的漂泊,这不但反映了他们成长期所经受的国族认同危机,而且透露出他们试图通过离乱历史的叙事而建构其马来西亚"国境内少数民族形象"的族群意识.但这种建构虽然以寻求认同为旨归,却天然地和当局打造马来西亚国族共同体的意识形态相冲突,而这冲突的双方在当前全球化语境中似乎又共同面临本真性幻觉的困境.     

漫议《聊斋志异》的"性"文化美质

中国"性"文化有着良好的传统,其在文学艺术的表现中一般分为"变态的性欲描写"和"文学的性欲描写"两类,<聊斋志异>则属于后者.<聊斋志异>中的性欲描写含蓄、蕴籍,少叙述而多形容,且与异性间感情的发展相伴以行,它既是男女爱情激流的涌现,是情节和人物性格发展的需要,又是小说艺术氛围所不可缺少的,不能以"低级庸俗"将其完全抹煞.特别是那些歌颂爱情的小说中的性欲描写,更是绘声绘影,仪态万方,多姿多彩地展现了中国性文化的美质.     

塔吉克语的使用与保护——来自新疆塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县的调查

中国的塔吉克族在历史发展中逐渐丧失了自己本民族的文字,成为我国有语言而无文字的特殊民族之一。在长期发展过程中,受民族分布格局和人文环境等因素的影响,塔吉克民族在语言使用上普遍呈现多语化的现象。"天生的翻译家"——这一特殊身份不仅是对塔吉克民族自身文化适应性的反映,也从某种程度上反映了塔吉克民族在多元文化中的弱势和无奈。如何在经济文化发展的浪潮中保存塔吉克族的语言,不仅引起了学者的关注,也成为塔吉克民族自身不断反思的问题。基于塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县的调查,就此问题进行了探讨。