农村互助合作金融模式绩效分析

互助合作金融是中国农村金融市场的一种创新融资模式,尽管其组织化、制度化经营时间短、经验少,融资能力还很微小,但已经表现出财务上可持续发展的能力,在满足农户小额贷款方面的补充作用十分显著。资金互助合作密切了社会成员的相互关系,改善着农村社会关系,社会整体信用水平、将为之提高。论题分析了《农村资金互助社管理暂行规定》颁布前后农村互助合作金融模式的制度绩效、功能绩效和社会绩效。     

论魏晋玄风下的中国佛教般若学言意观

魏晋时期佛教般若学言意观,在对教义的理解上,在“言语道断-假言假象-忘象息言-求理象外”的体系建立上,在论述语言及其表述方式上,受到当时魏晋玄学思潮的直接影响。但佛教作为一种外来思想,又有自己的独特性与深刻性。比如对语言符号假有、空性的认识,对“形象”的认识以及提出的“顿悟”说等,拓宽了认识和意识能力的范畴,对后世影响甚深。     

洗衣文化

洗衣是日常生活中人们都要从事的一项家务劳动 ,主要操作者是女性。自古手洗衣服都要花费女人们较多的时间和精力。无论西方还是中国 ,传统的洗衣方式基本相同。自从洗衣机进入大部分家庭后 ,传统的手洗被机洗取代 ,妇女们有更多的时间从事自己喜欢的工作。     

澳葡殖民政府早期政治架构的形成与演变

澳葡政府早期政治架构演变发展有三个阶段:第一个阶段是从澳门开埠后不久到1835年议事会被解散,葡萄牙人在澳门建立并实施双重效忠的自治机构为主体的政治架构;第二个阶段是从议事会被解散至彼亚度出任总督之前,葡人内部建立早期殖民政府政治架构;第三个阶段是亚马留出任总督之后,公开完成组建澳葡殖民政府。     

中美电视合作与竞争关系探析

20 0 1年底 ,美国两大媒体先后宣布其电视频道将在中国的广东部分地区落地播出 ,而中国中央电视台的英语频道也将在美国播出。中美电视方面的合作是中美文化关系的一个新现象。在合作的同时相互间的竞争不可避免。在竞争中双方各有优劣 ,中国电视只有以资本营运为突破口 ,带动观念和体制的深层变革 ,才能在实力悬殊的竞争中获得更大的发展     

Program Evaluation and Causal Inference With High‐Dimensional Data

In this paper, we provide efficient estimators and honest confidence bands for a variety of treatment effects including local average (LATE) and local quantile treatment effects (LQTE) in data‐rich environments. We can handle very many control variables, endogenous receipt of treatment, heterogeneous treatment effects, and function‐valued outcomes. Our framework covers the special case of exogenous receipt of treatment, either conditional on controls or unconditionally as in randomized control trials. In the latter case, our approach produces efficient estimators and honest bands for (functional) average treatment effects (ATE) and quantile treatment effects (QTE). To make informative inference possible, we assume that key reduced‐form predictive relationships are approximately sparse. This assumption allows the use of regularization and selection methods to estimate those relations, and we provide methods for post‐regularization and post‐selection inference that are uniformly valid (honest) across a wide range of models. We show that a key ingredient enabling honest inference is the use of orthogonal or doubly robust moment conditions in estimating certain reduced‐form functional parameters. We illustrate the use of the proposed methods with an application to estimating the effect of 401(k) eligibility and participation on accumulated assets. The results on program evaluation are obtained as a consequence of more general results on honest inference in a general moment‐condition framework, which arises from structural equation models in econometrics. Here, too, the crucial ingredient is the use of orthogonal moment conditions, which can be constructed from the initial moment conditions. We provide results on honest inference for (function‐valued) parameters within this general framework where any high‐quality, machine learning methods (e.g., boosted trees, deep neural networks, random forest, and their aggregated and hybrid versions) can be used to learn the nonparametric/high‐dimensional components of the model. These include a number of supporting auxiliary results that are of major independent interest: namely, we (1) prove uniform validity of a multiplier bootstrap, (2) offer a uniformly valid functional delta method, and (3) provide results for sparsity‐based estimation of regression functions for function‐valued outcomes.     

Search for Yield

We present a model of the relationship between real interest rates, credit spreads, and the structure and risk of the banking system. Banks intermediate between entrepreneurs and investors, and can monitor entrepreneurs' projects. We characterize the equilibrium for a fixed aggregate supply of savings, showing that safer entrepreneurs will be funded by nonmonitoring banks and riskier entrepreneurs by monitoring banks. We show that an increase in savings reduces interest rates and spreads, and increases the relative size of the nonmonitoring banking system and the probability of failure of monitoring banks. We also show that the dynamic version of the model exhibits endogenous boom and bust cycles, and rationalizes the existence of countercyclical risk premia and the connection between low interest rates, tight credit spreads, and the buildup of risks during booms.     

Did small and medium enterprises maintain better jobs during the early years of the recession? Job quality multidimensional evidence from Spain

While the literature has indeed confirmed a general tendency linking small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to a dynamic of greater job creation, there is little available evidence on what has happened to job quality since the financial crisis. Through a representative sample of 5311 employees in 2008 (first year of job destruction) and 4925 employees in 2010 (last year for which data were available), and using a two-stage structural equation model, this article empirically analyses the multidimensional determinants of job quality, by enterprise-size class, in Spain. The research has revealed three main results. First, job quality in Spain improved in all enterprises, regardless of their size, during the early years of the recession. Second, the greatest improvements were found in SMEs. Although job quality was already better in SMEs than in large enterprises in 2008, the differences between them subsequently widened. Third, this accelerated divergence was explained by the following dimensions: working conditions, work intensity, health and safety at work, and work–life balance. These dimensions were much more positive in SMEs. Employment-related public policy should therefore focus more specifically on SMEs. There are two reasons for this. First, despite the recession, SMEs have shown themselves to be key factors in the explanation of job quality. Second, by making changes to their value generation model, they could continue to drive the creation of better quality jobs.     

Fairness and commitment to change in M&As: The mediating role of organizational identification

This paper examines the determinants of employees' affective commitment to change in the context of M&As. Based on the group engagement model (Tyler & Blader, 2000, 2003), we predicted that organizational identification with the newly formed organization mediates the positive impact of employees’ overall justice judgments and perceived change favorableness on affective commitment to change. We tested our predictions using data collected during an international merger. After controlling for country effects, results support our hypotheses. Implications for research and practice alike are discussed.     

No place to go? Management of non-human animal overflows in Australia

I discuss overflows of several introduced vertebrate species in Australia and critically explore their construction as national pests – overflows - appropriate for management by lethal control. I outline the thanato-politics and thanato-economics of managing selected non-human animals by toxic baiting and/or viral infection in ecologies of toxicity and the trophic cascades which may ensue. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, I explore creative potentialities for conservation managers of thinking in terms of milieu and environnementalité; exploration of the conditions of possibility for non-human animals to live in their milieus, considering relationalities with elements such as habitat fragmentation, fire regimes, pesticide use and so on. This could form a biopolitics which relocates biopower to within the subject rather than a thanato-politics of overflow, surplus and death.