刷单炒信样态的认识误区及刑法评价

刷单炒信是网络平台交易中司空见惯的违法现象。由于未能厘清其不同样态及法益侵害,理论与实务对刷单炒信的刑法评价仍存在较大争议。普通刷单炒信、组织刷单炒信及提供刷单平台服务是刷单炒信的不同样态呈现,三者在行为结构、社会危害及法益侵害等方面各有不同表现,刑法应当予以区分评价。尽管当前网络平台违法犯罪形势严峻,但普通刷单炒信不具有相当社会危害性,不宜适用刑法规制。相比之下,组织刷单炒信严重违反国家广告经营管理制度,应以虚假广告罪论处。提供刷单平台服务严重违反互联网信息服务经营许可制度,应成立非法经营罪。组织刷单炒信中包含提供刷单平台服务内容的,可按牵连犯从一重处断。     

网络交易欺诈行为的共性特征研究

伴随网络交易的发展,各种网络交易欺诈行为层出不穷,这不仅损害了网络交易参与者的利益,也严重制约着网络交易市场的健康发展.学术界关于网络交易欺诈行为的研究相对少见,基于此,文章以特征分析为视角,引入计划行为理论( TPB)对搜集的近两年典型欺诈案例进行定性分析;在此基础上构建量表调查各类欺诈行为的特征数据,并进行量化研究,得到网络交易欺诈行为的四大关键共性特征:形象包装特征、利益导向特征、形式特征与技术包装特征.     

我国货币政策传导不畅的成因探析

在阐述我国货币政策传导机制理论依据的基础上,认为当前我国货币政策传导不畅的原因主要是机构活力不足、金融经济结构不对称、微观经济主体引致需求不足和金融市场发育不健全等。     

中国出口贫困化增长分析

本文以钨产品出口为例,分析中国的出口贫困化增长问题。在实证分析中国钨行业的市场结构及企业行为特征的基础上,剖析中国出口贫困化增长现象的成因,并从市场结构与企业行为转变方面提出解决中国出口贫困增长问题的对策。     

构建“五型”党委班子 提高党的建设科学化水平

构建＂学习型、效能型、和谐型、清廉型、务实型＂五型党委班子,提高党的建设科学化水平,必须针对难点问题,注重在加强党委班子学习上下功夫,不断提高政策理论水平;针对特点问题,注重在提高党委班子的决策水平上下功夫,切实增强领导效能;针对重点问题,注重在提高党委班子团结质量上下功夫,努力营造和谐氛围;针对焦点问题,注重在清正廉洁上下功夫,不断提高党委班子的感召力;针对热点问题,注重在真抓实干上下功夫,不断强化党委班子求真务实的工作作风。     

Examining college students’ differential deviance: A partial test of social structure-social learning theory

College students are engaged in a variety of activities on campus, some of which are deviant and may be criminal. This research investigated 12 activities prohibited on many college campuses (for example, smoking, meeting in an unreserved room, and removing school property without permission). Negative binomial regressions were used to analyze a count of engagement in the deviant activities and logistic regressions were used to separately analyze the three most common behaviors found in the sample—non-permitted parking, alcohol consumption, and making a false excuse. The findings show moderate support for the general (using the count variable) and the specific (using the three dichotomized variables) predictability of unofficial and official sanctions as a proxy measures of Sherman’s defiance theory and the four constructs of Akers’ social learning theory. The inconsistencies among which variables were significant and which had the strongest effect are discussed, along with a mediation analysis.     

Researcher Perceptions of Ethical Guidelines and Codes of Conduct

Ethical codes of conduct exist in almost every profession. Field-specific codes of conduct have been around for decades, each articulating specific ethical and professional guidelines. However, there has been little empirical research on researchers’ perceptions of these codes of conduct. In the present study, we interviewed faculty members in six research disciplines and identified five themes bearing on the circumstances under which they use ethical guidelines and the underlying reasons for not adhering to such guidelines. We then identify problems with the manner in which codes of conduct in academia are constructed and offer solutions for overcoming these problems.     

Family Transitions,Conduct Problems,and Self-Esteem in Elementary School in Kuwait: A Quasi-Experimental Design

ABSTRACT

This study investigated whether family transitions (disruptions due to parents’ divorce, separation, marriage, or death) were related to problems in the conduct and self-esteem of 331 boys aged 8 to 10 years old in elementary school in Kuwait. The boys were divided into two groups: one whose families had undergone a transition within the past 3 years and one whose families had not undergone such a transition. The two groups were compared on conduct and self-esteem as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist 6–18 and on the Self-Esteem Index. A two-tailed t test was used. The study revealed statistically significant relationships between the two groups. Transitions in the families of young Kuwaiti boys seem to be precursors to problems with conduct but not with self-esteem. Kuwaiti tribal culture may help explain why self-esteem does not suffer after a family transition. The findings suggest a greater need for social services to work with schools to gather information from families to track students and offer services to these families. Future research could study the broader factors surrounding conflict in families undergoing transitions to determine the later impact on children.     

Market structure,bank conduct and bank performance: Evidence from ASEAN

Whether banks in a concentrated market increase their profits through monopoly pricing is a question of prime concern for antitrust policies. We explore this question by introducing the role of bank conduct into the structure–performance relationship. We apply Two-step System GMM dynamic panel model to commercial banks in the Association of South East Asian Nations over the period of 1999–2014. The results indicate that the higher profits in concentrated banking industries are partially attributable to the anti-competitive conduct of banks. These findings are robust across alternative measures of market structure and bank conduct, and different time horizons. The implications of these findings require regulators to make sure that the consolidation policy for ASEAN is achieving its purpose – i.e. financial stability – and not allowing the banks to earn monopoly rents.     

Learning (to) taste: food,aesthetics, and education in early modern France

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the intersection between taste and education in the early modern period. The first part investigates the close connection between the sense of taste and the sin of gluttony, highlighting taste’s close association with food disorders in the late Middle Ages and early modernity. Silencing taste was by then a key aspect of the education of the body, which needed to be learned from the earliest age, at home as well as at school. The second part charts the rise of a moderate and honest gourmandise from the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries onward, accompanied by the invention of the polite bon goût and later the aesthetic taste of beauty, which contributed to a new social valorization of taste, while also complicating contemporary practices of learning (to) taste. Using a wide variety of early modern printed sources, including conduct books, religious and moral treatises, books of emblems, and treatises on the senses and on taste in particular, as well as aesthetic works, this paper sheds light on the multiple ways in which taste – of the body as much as of the mind – was used, learned, and displayed, hence revealing a transformation of the experience and understanding of taste throughout the early modern period, as well as its impact on educational practices.