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Is Higher Price Deserved? The “G” Train of China

近日一好友问我为何最近不再更新博客,我笑而不语。其实并非我懒惰,而是我最近在家天天研究多元统计、数学分析以及Matlab和Mathematica两个软件,实在是没有什么东西可以往博客上写。与在学校的时候相比,家里的日子的确是清闲了很多。清闲的日子固然很好,但是也却给了我一个难题。那就是,平淡的日子下实在是没有什么特别的事情可以让我来写博客。

Google.cn: Let’s Say Goodbye!

image6[1] If you are familiar with the happenings these months related to the Google in China,  you should not forget the debating several months ago that concerns the exit of Google, a world-famous search engine, from China, a country that is famous around the world for its strict censorship on both Internet and traditional medias, like TV, newspapers and magazines. In fact, in the past few months, majority of Chinese like me, are still holding the hope that the Google should maintain its service in China, with the consideration on the commercial benefit, which, in my opinion, ultimately determines the decision for most businessman.

Property Rights Protection: A Conceptual Problem

好久没有更新博客了。最近因为忙于准备毕业论文和博士入学考试,我也就无暇顾及这片天地了。同时,最近也似乎实在没有什么值得去深究的题目。本打算就林妙可在今年春晚的直播现场不尊重老艺术家,后来想想也算了。俗话说的好,子不教,父之过。恐怕林妙可这个小丫头的所作所为也并非出于其自愿,而更可能是父母的功利心在作祟。考虑到这种现象也属于个案,大多数的中国人还是非常懂得尊老爱幼的,故而我也就就此搁笔了。但是今天早上QQ群里转发的一条消息却让我来了兴趣。如果说林妙可只是个案,那么我们国人当前的羊群行为和对知识产权的不尊重则是到了发指的地步了。

Some Words for The Chinese New Year of 2010

Time has been passed over the 12:00 point and now it is the last day of the 2009 and we are welcoming the first day of the new year, according to the traditional calendar of China. Just like the westerners are caring much on the Christmas and New Year’s day, that the Chinese have paid adequate attention to this festival for thousands of years. However, the Chinese New Year is a bit different from the others. More precisely, I find no feeling that I am welcoming an important festival. Instead, I have received some unexpected gifts for my coming new year.

Some Tips for Rookie Empirical Researchers

image 最近大家都开始做毕业论文了。鉴于现在国内外的学术潮流,大家都开始做实证了。哎,说实话,我们80后这一代可真是累,穿衣服、吃饭、看书什么都要赶时髦,甚至连现在这“人人得而诛之”的毕业论文都开始给我们找麻烦。您说洋洋洒洒数万字的规范研究有什么不好,既可以天马行空,也可以写的很潇洒。若有哪位牛人从小熟读唐诗宋词、楚辞汉赋,此时论文写作便是该君最为得意的时候。可惜,古人云,天有不测风云,今人曰,研究有风险,如今实证研究大行其道,不做点实证研究,毕业论文不放几个表格,不放几张统计图,不去写上一些数学模型,如何能一讨恩师的“芳心”?

Citizen-managed Teachers: Their Past and Future

villiage school For most students like us, who were born and grew up in a city, participating state-owned schools, from kindergarten, primary school to middle school and university, it is hard for us to imagine the ‘citizen-managed’ teachers. The only impression for me is from the documentary films. But a recent notice on the future of these teacher bring such persons into our sight. It is the headlines of the journals and newspapers bring us the opportunity to take a consideration of all these teachers. Prior to the start of this article, I do wish all these teachers everything goes well. They have devote too much to the development of the education in China.

Freedom on Internet: An Alternative Explanation

image Abstract: This article mainly discuss the production of regulation on Internet, as well as its anticipated consequence, grounded with the traditional economic theory. i argue the appropriate regulation on Internet is necessary due to the existence of naive users of Internet as well as the herding behavior. But I also argue that strict censorship can also mean cliff effect, which is a tragedy for the users. The contribution of this article is that it is the first time to link the development of Internet to the economic understanding. And the conclusion is also of practical meanings to the academics and practitioners who are focus on the investors protection in emerging markets.

THFD: Free Lunch for Researchers

image It is widely acknowledge for the researchers on finance and accounting as well as related fields that the access to the data for their researches are undoubtedly essential. Unlike the traditional research framework that our predecessors did in 1950s and earlier, when narrative researches are mainstreams, the research nowadays, defined as contemporary researches in most literatures, are taking great preference on analytical methods and quantitative analysis. For researchers in China, especially for the fields of accounting and finance, empirical research is very popular these days. While, the data for these researchers who are conducting empirical researches means a lot, because they can directly decide the availability of a proposed research.

Google in China: To Be or Not To Be

It would be amazed to see that a young man who works at the computer for eight hours and more that is ignored about Google. For us, the coming out of search engine has changed our lives. Their service make the seeking of specified information from the pool of Internet become easy. Among the numerous search engine, Google is undoubtedly the most famous one due to its advantage on technology and service. And in less than a decade, the Google has developed from a small workshop, settled in a garage, to a global company that integrated various services, like online photo album, Email service, Books, etc. However, it is this large firm that announced his willing of exiting China this morning.

Accounting Theory: Positive or Narrative?

image Since the development of contemporary research of accounting in 1992, when numerous HK scholars started to conduct the empirical researches under the Chinese stock market, a discussion between the traditional (We call Narrative Accounting Theory) and the contemporary (We call it as Positive Accounting Theory, PAT) theory has been started for decades until recent years. Now the empirical research has been a popular trend in China, which can be easily observed from the conference proceedings,  working papers and published papers, especially those from young scholars.