Perception of Climate Risk among Rural Farmers in Vietnam: Consistency within Households and with the Empirical Record

Rural farmers in Vietnamese communes perceive climate risk and potential impacts on livelihood within a complex context that may influence individual and household decisions. In a primary survey of 1,145 residents of the Thach Ha district of Ha Tinh province, we gathered data regarding perception about stability in climate, potential risks to livelihood, demographic characteristics, orientation toward risk, and interest in expanding economic activity. Temporal analysis of meteorological and economic indicator data forms an empirical basis for comparison with human perception. We ask the basic question: Are rural farmers’ perceptions of climate consistent with the historical record and reproducible within households? We find that respondents do perceive climate anomalies, with some anchoring on recent extreme events as revealed by climate observational data, and further that spouses disproportionately share perceptions relative to randomly simulated pairings. To put climate‐related risk perception in a larger context, we examine patterns across a range of risks to livelihood faced by farmers (livestock disease, pests, markets, health), using dimension reduction techniques. We find that our respondents distinguish among potential causes of low economic productivity, with substantial emphasis on climate‐related impacts. They do not express uniform concern across risks, but rather average patterns reveal common modes and distinguish climate concern. Still, among those expressing concern about climate‐related risks to livelihood we do not find an association with expressed intention to pursue changes in economic activity as a risk management response.     

The Great Recession of 2007: An Agenda for Social Justice

The Great Recession, the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, officially began in December 2007 with an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble and lasted until June 2009, resulting in loss in consumer spending and collapse in the nation’s business investment. For American workers, the Great Recession had far-reaching implications: unemployment, underemployment, pay cuts, and cutbacks in household spending. Although social work has a historical commitment to address the vulnerabilities of people and communities, we argue that the profession neglected to understand fully the factors associated with the Great Recession and to mount an agenda for justice in response to its worker-related impact.     

构建省以下政府间合理财政关系问题研究——兼论“省管县”体制向常态化发展的可能性及路径

对于“省管县”财政体制改革的认识，不能仅定位于压缩财政层级或县域政区财政脱困的权宜之计，必须将其提升至地方行政管理体制变革的高度。中国的财政管理体制改革必须在行政管理体制改革的大背景中找到自己的位置。本文认为，应逐步通过解除市领导县的管理体制，重新整合县域行政辖区，以及必要的省级行政区划的调整，在形成了一个相对合理地地方行政管理层级架构之后，方能营造出构建相对合理的地方政府间财政关系的可能性，进而使得“省管县”财政管理体制成为一种常态化的模式。     

媒体关注下的CSR信息披露与企业财务绩效关系研究及启示——基于我国A股上市公司CSR报告的实证研究

企业社会责任(CSR)及信息披露已成为当前社会各界共同关注的热点问题。本文利用独立机构发布的我国A股上市公司CSR报告的评级数据,验证了当前时代背景下我国企业社会责任信息披露与企业财务绩效的关系,以及作为信息传递媒介和"公众日程设置者"的媒体的关注对于二者关系的影响作用。研究发现,高水平披露社会责任信息的企业的绩效明显高于低水平企业,但是这种作用关系是在媒体关注度这一变量的完全中介作用之下实现的。这一新发现不仅丰富和拓展了企业社会责任及信息披露的理论研究框架,对于基于战略性CSR思维制定相关战略的企业管理者也深具启发意义。     

资助低收入学生就读高等教育：美国的经验

资助低收入学生就读高等教育 ,是世界各国都十分重视的一项公共政策。美国在实施学生资助过程中 ,规定了低收入学生、财政需求、就学价格、家庭预期贡献等重要概念的标准和计算办法。受多种资助理念影响 ,美国学生资助是一种典型的多元混合资助模式 ,政府、高校、社会等机构通过奖学金、助学金、贷学金、工读计划等方式资助低收入学生。这种模式对于维系美国多元庞大的高等教育体系具有十分重要的意义     

政府采购与经济增长的实证研究——基于ARMA最优模型

本文采用基于ARMA模型适用于小样本的最优预测的建模方法,来分析政府采购和经济增长之间的因果关系。研究结果表明政府采购和经济增长之间存在非对称、单向因果关系,即政府采购对经济增长的影响不显著,而经济增长对政府采购具有促进作用。因此,从政府采购影响路径的角度分析认为,在后金融危机时代应该采取一些可行的措施扭转政府采购对经济增长的不显著状况。     

浅议加强民族高校财务人员职业道德教育的意义

本文就民族高校财务工作的特点和市场经济发展形势的要求,阐述加强对民族高校财务人员进行职业道德教育的重要性及其意义。     

A Theory of Macroprudential Policies in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities

We propose a theory of monetary policy and macroprudential interventions in financial markets. We focus on economies with nominal rigidities in goods and labor markets and subject to constraints on monetary policy, such as the zero lower bound or fixed exchange rates. We identify an aggregate demand externality that can be corrected by macroprudential interventions in financial markets. Ex post, the distribution of wealth across agents affects aggregate demand and output. Ex ante, however, these effects are not internalized in private financial decisions. We provide a simple formula for the required financial interventions that depends on a small number of measurable sufficient statistics. We also characterize optimal monetary policy. We extend our framework to incorporate pecuniary externalities, providing a unified approach to both externalities. Finally, we provide a number of applications which illustrate the relevance of our theory.     

一种混合建模方法及其在ETF期权定价中的应用

科学合理的交易型开放式指数基金（ETF）期权定价有利于充分发挥其风险对冲功能,也是一个需要准确掌握市场规律并兼顾经济学意义的复杂建模过程。本文提出了一种新的混合建模方法,将嵌套长短时记忆神经网络模型（NLSTM）与Heston模型结合,实现ETF期权定价偏差的动态修正,并基于华夏上证50ETF、嘉实沪深300ETF和华泰柏瑞沪深300ETF的高频期权数据,实验验证了所提方法的有效性。研究结果表明,不同类型ETF期权价格的波动特征差异显著,无论是基于BS定价模型还是Heston定价模型都难以准确刻画ETF期权价格的复杂变化规律。通过将NLSTM神经网络模型与Heston模型结合,能够有效地捕捉不同类型ETF期权的动态变化规律,从而提升ETF期权定价的准确性。     

基于EaR的上市商业银行财务风险评价研究

商业银行在我国经济发展和转型中起着重要作用,近年来随着经济增速放缓、利率市场化和同业竞争加剧的影响,商业银行面临的财务风险也不断加大。为了科学合理地评价商业银行的财务风险,本文从在险价值(VaR)的概念出发引入了在险值的财务风险评价方法对上市商业银行的在险盈余和在险现金流进行测度,实证结果表明目前商业银行总体具有良好的盈利水平,但部分商业银行存在现金流风险。