Is the beauty premium accessible to all? An experimental analysis

We conducted a trust game experiment to investigate whether women are trusted more when they wear makeup than when they do not. Facial attractiveness, which was manipulated through the application of makeup by a professional makeup artist, was measured before and after makeovers. Trustors were shown a photograph of their female counterparts before they made decisions about money transfers to trustees. The results showed that wearing makeup increased perceived attractiveness, which in turn led trustors to make larger transfers to female trustees during the trust game. Additionally, we discovered a pure makeup premium that was mediated by gender. Specifically, female trustees with makeup received larger transfers than female trustees without makeup when the trustors were men, even after controlling for female trustees’ levels of attractiveness.     

从委婉语对比看英汉民族价值观和道德观的不同

英汉民族的历史、政治和思维方式不同,英汉委婉语所反映的价值观和道德观也不一样,通过对比分析英汉委婉语,透析中西方文化差异,可加深对英语文化的了解,学会正确使用英语委婉语,增强跨文化交际能力。     

基于差分的数量折扣条件下订货策略优化模型

通过采用合适的数量折扣策略,供需双方都可以提高自己的利润。用双层规划模型描 述了供应链管理中供应商与订货商合作情况下确定数量折扣及订货量问题,并用基于差分的 算法进行了求解. 实例分析说明双方合作的双层规划模型能正确表示实际的供需关系,在平衡 点可以使双方利益均达到最大     

非期望产出下我国能源消耗产出效率差异研究

提高能源消耗产出效率是新常态下经济发展的必然趋势,随机扰动和外部环境是研究能源消耗产出效率不可回避的问题,而传统的DEA模型无法剔除非期望产出对效率值的影响。本文通过构建四阶段Bootstrap-DEA-Malmquist模型,采用1990~2014年的省际面板数据作为样本数据,通过松弛指标调整能源投入,剔除外部环境和随机因素对能源效率和能源全要素生产率的扰动,并借助Bootstrap随机抽样法进一步减小由于样本差异造成的影响,从静态和动态两个维度测算了中国能源消耗产出效率和全要素生产率。研究发现,外部环境和随机扰动对能源效率的估算具有显著影响,剔除外部环境影响因素后得到的能源效率值、技术效率变化以及全要素生产率变动均有不同程度的下降,而调整初始投入后的技术进步值有所上升。此外,考虑环境因素时,能源效率值下降,但是进一步运用Bootstrap随机抽样法消除随机因素的影响后,能源效率值有所上升。本文的主要贡献在于将环境因素和随机因素从能源效率与能源全要素生产率的测算中剥离,获得更为准确的能源效率值和能源全要素生产率值。     

‘It is not fair that you do not know we have problems’: Perceptual distance and the consequences of male leaders' conflict avoidance behaviours

This study investigates perceptual distance in terms of managers' conflict avoidance behaviour and its consequences for subordinates. We argue that perceptual distance, or the disagreement between a manager's perception and that of his or her subordinates of his or her conflict avoidance, is a genuine phenomenon. We examine the extent to which the perceptual distance regarding managers' avoidance behaviour influences a team's justice climate as well as the role of gender. The data collected from three multinational companies in China show that the perceptual distance of a male manager's avoidance behaviour exists and that it is associated with a negative justice climate within the team. These findings provide evidence of gender's effect on leadership and highlight the benefits of female leadership.     

Investor response to appointment of female CEOs and CFOs

We study the impact of appointing women to top executive positions from an investor perspective. We analyze whether shareholders value announcement of appointment of women to top positions differently than they do appointment of men. This study uses an international sample of 100 announcements of top executive appointments of women who replace men and investigates how shareholders respond to such appointments. This research combines an event study with a matched pair analysis to compare the response from investors regarding appointment of female versus male CEOs and CFOs. We establish that investors do not seem to value appointment of women significantly differently from that of men. This finding suggests that, from the investor perspective, there appears to be no business case for a particular gender when it comes to appointing a CEO or CFO.     

基于求解TSP问题的双向扩展差额算法

旅行商(TSP)问题是典型的组合优化中的NP-hard难题.本文在最近城市搜索法和两端延伸最近城市搜索法基础上提出了双向扩展差额求解算法,并分析了算法的复杂度.采用以上三种算法求解了TSPLIB标准库中多个算例,比较结果表明本算法能够更快的找到更优的方案,具有更好的综合性能.     

功能性价值和象征性价值对品牌忠诚的影响:性别差异和品牌差异的调节作用

根据品牌资产、品牌关系和目标理论,本文从理论上阐释了价值作为品牌忠诚直接前置变量的作用,功能性、象征性价值对品牌忠诚的影响在实证研究中得到支持,而且这种影响存在非线性的特征.本研究进一步考察了性别差异和品牌差异对上述影响的调节作用,结果表明:(1)象征性价值对品牌忠诚的影响存在性别差异,其作用女性强于男性;(2)随着品牌差异的提高,功能性、象征性价值对品牌忠诚的影响增强.     

差价合约下电网公司购电费用最小化的离散优化模型

以购电费用最小化为目标函数,构建了差价合约下电网公司在合约市场、现货市场、备用市场和可中断负荷交易市场上的最优购电模型,并利用启发式算法给出了该模型的求解算法,最后,通过算例分析了差价合约及合约电量比重对电网公司购电费用的影响。     

U-Statistics based on spacings

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic theory for U-statistics based on sample spacings, i.e. the gaps between successive observations. The usual asymptotic theory for U-statistics does not apply here because spacings are dependent variables. However, under the null hypothesis, the uniform spacings can be expressed as conditionally independent Exponential random variables. We exploit this idea to derive the relevant asymptotic theory both under the null hypothesis and under a sequence of close alternatives.The generalized Gini mean difference of the sample spacings is a prime example of a U-statistic of this type. We show that such a Gini spacings test is analogous to Rao's spacings test. We find the asymptotically locally most powerful test in this class, and it has the same efficacy as the Greenwood statistic.