Cultural Variables and International Business

IntroductionCulturegivesanindividualananchoringpoint,ani dentity ,aswellascodesofconduct (MichaelR ,Iikka ,andMichaelH 2 0 0 2 :33) .Ofmorethan 16 0definitionsofculture (AlfredandClyde 1985 :11) ,mostagreeonsomebasicprinciples ,butthereisalotofvariationonthedetails .Cultureisalsomultidimensional ,consistingofanumberofcommonelementsthatareinterdependent.Thedifferencesinculturehaveanimportantimpactonmanyaspectsofamultinationalcompany’sactivity .Thispaperwillmainlydiscusstheeffectofsomeofthe…     

Sampling design proportional to order statistic of auxiliary variable

The sampling designs dependent on sample moments of auxiliary variables are well known. Lahiri (Bull Int Stat Inst 33:133–140, 1951) considered a sampling design proportionate to a sample mean of an auxiliary variable. Sing and Srivastava (Biometrika 67(1):205–209, 1980) proposed the sampling design proportionate to a sample variance while Wywiał (J Indian Stat Assoc 37:73–87, 1999) a sampling design proportionate to a sample generalized variance of auxiliary variables. Some other sampling designs dependent on moments of an auxiliary variable were considered e.g. in Wywiał (Some contributions to multivariate methods in, survey sampling. Katowice University of Economics, Katowice, 2003a); Stat Transit 4(5):779–798, 2000) where accuracy of some sampling strategies were compared, too.These sampling designs cannot be useful in the case when there are some censored observations of the auxiliary variable. Moreover, they can be much too sensitive to outliers observations. In these cases the sampling design proportionate to the order statistic of an auxiliary variable can be more useful. That is why such an unequal probability sampling design is proposed here. Its particular cases as well as its conditional version are considered, too. The sampling scheme implementing this sampling design is proposed. The inclusion probabilities of the first and second orders were evaluated. The well known Horvitz–Thompson estimator is taken into account. A ratio estimator dependent on an order statistic is constructed. It is similar to the well known ratio estimator based on the population and sample means. Moreover, it is an unbiased estimator of the population mean when the sample is drawn according to the proposed sampling design dependent on the appropriate order statistic.     

Block external bootstrap in partially linear models with nonstationary strong mixing error terms

The authors extend the block external bootstrap to partially linear regression models with strongly mixing, nonstationary error terms. In addition to providing an approximate distribution for the semiparametric least square estimator of the parametric component, they propose a consistent estimator of the co‐variance matrix of this estimator.     

三个两两相外切圆的内公切圆与外公切圆

在适当的直角坐标系下求出了三个两两相外切圆的内公切圆与外公切圆之圆心坐标和半径,并得到了诸半径之间的优美关系式。     

基于银行-资产双边网络模型的系统性风险及投资策略研究

受近几年的国际金融危机及金融全球化的影响,对金融系统的系统性风险的研究已成为国内外学者的关注热点。考虑到当前基于"银行-资产-银行"间接传播渠道的相关研究相对匮乏,本文基于银行-资产双边网络模型来分析银行系统性风险。首先,使用中国47家上市银行2018年的资产负债表数据构建了中国银行系统的双边网络模型,研究分析各类资产遭受冲击时外部冲击、降价出售效应及银行所持有的各类资产占银行总资产的比例对银行系统性风险的影响。然后,引入系统性冲击方式,通过设置具有不同属性的两大类资产并生成四种冲击事件来构建银行的投资策略模型,从资产视角探讨银行最优的投资策略。研究发现,外部冲击与降价出售效应这两个产生系统性风险的影响因素在一定区间值时会产生叠加效应,使银行系统性风险急剧增加;五种资产类中,贷款类资产对外部冲击最敏感;分析发现在各类资产冲击下都未倒闭的所有银行的资产组合具有一定的相似性;进一步研究发现银行系统中存在着最优的资产组合,使得银行在稳定的同时能获取最大收益,并且资产负债比越大的银行其风险承受能力越强,从而可以选择更激进的投资策略来追求高收益。     

农户持续参加科普培训意愿的影响因素

持续参与科普培训对提升农户科学素质具有关键作用。基于社会认知理论,将外部环境划分为参与环境和人际环境两个维度,将农户结果期望划分为素质结果期望和收入结果期望两个维度,采用陕西省305户农户随机分层抽样调研数据,运用Probit模型对农户科普培训持续参与意愿影响因素进行实证分析。研究发现:外部环境和结果期望对农户持续参与意愿均有显著的正向影响,其中素质结果期望在参与环境、人际环境对持续参与意愿的关系中具有中介作用,收入结果期望在参与环境对持续参与意愿的关系中具有中介作用。据此提出营造良好外部环境、增强科普培训的实用性以满足农户结果期望等提升农户持续参与科普培训的建议。     

语言多属性决策的目标规划模型

研究了只有部分属性权重信息、属性值以语言变量或不确定语言变量形式给出且决策者对方案有偏好信息的语言多属性决策问题.给出了语言变量和不确定语言变量的运算法则,以及不确定语言变量之间比较的可能度公式,定义了语言变量的偏离度概念.在属性值以1)语言变量和2)不确定语言变量,这两种形式给出的情形下,分别建立了一个基于偏离度的目标规划模型,并通过求解这两种模型分别获得相应的属性权重.然后对于情形1),利用语言加权平均(LWA)算子,对语言决策信息进行加权集成,继而对方案进行排序和择优;对于情形2),利用不确定语言加权平均(ULWA)算子,对不确定语言决策信息进行加权集成,并利用可能度公式构造可能度矩阵(互补判断矩阵),继而利用互补判断矩阵排序公式对决策方案进行排序和择优.最后进行了实例分析.     

西部农村居民政治参与及社会治理分析——基于陕西省岐山县G村的社会调查

以陕西省岐山县G村社会调研数据为基础,对西部农村居民的政治关注度、参与度、满意度进行描述性统计分析,认为西部农村居民的政治参与水平不高。通过建立Probit模型,分析影响农村居民政治参与水平的人口学变量以及政治效能感因素,研究发现：人口学的关键变量、内在与外在的政治效能感均对政治参与有显著影响,为此提出通过有效的社会治理举措,以改善人口学变量中关键因素,提升农民的政治效能感,从而有效提高农村居民政治参与水平。     

内外部网络口碑与在线销售的动态交互过程——基于分层贝叶斯模型的解析

与以往单纯以内部网络口碑、相互独立的内部和外部网络口碑为研究对象,分析网络口碑与在线销售的关系不同。基于评论环境理论,采用分层贝叶斯模型,以当当网、京东、亚马逊和豆瓣网为数据搜集对象,在充分考虑网络口碑异质性及其来源多元化的条件下,结合外部网络口碑平台信息提供的特点,在进一步引入免费试样因素的基础上,对内外部网络口碑与在线销售的动态交互作用进行研究。结果发现:在异质性网络平台并存且效价差异较小的情境下,效价不再是影响在线销售的关键,而内部网络口碑数量、数量信息熵才是影响在线销售的关键,反过来在线销售也刺激了网络口碑数量的提升。虽然外部网络口碑的存在削弱了这一环形机制的积极影响,但免费试样可有效削弱该负向调节机制。     

Population structure and correlation between auxiliary and target variables may affect precision of estimates in forest inventory

Simulations of forest inventory in several populations compared simple random with “quick probability proportional to size” (QPPS) sampling. The latter may be applied in the absence of a list sampling frame and/or prior measurement of the auxiliary variable. The correlation between the auxiliary and target variables required to render QPPS sampling more efficient than simple random sampling varied over the range 0.3–0.6 and was lower when sampling from populations that were skewed to the right. Two possible analytical estimators of the standard error of the estimate of the mean for QPPS sampling were found to be less reliable than bootstrapping.