Recent research highlights the significant impact of managerial industry tournament incentives on internal firm decisions. However, their potential impact on external stakeholders-in the context of evolving product market relationships-has received scant attention. To address this gap, we examine the effect of customer aspiration, incentivized by CEO industry tournaments (CITIs), on supplier innovation. Utilizing customer-supplier pair-level data from 1992 to 2018, we establish that customer CITIs enhance supplier innovation, both in quantity and quality. Additionally, we identify that CITIs positively impact the relationship-specific innovation and market valuation for suppliers. The effect of CITIs is more pronounced when customers are larger, geographically closer, socially connected, and have long-standing relationships with their suppliers. The results remain robust to alternative specifications and considering potential endogeneity issues. Our study highlights the bright side of executives’ industry tournament incentives, which not only drive innovation within the sector but can also positively influence related sectors within the supply chain.

中共二十届三中全会强调要健全高质量充分就业促进机制，就业是最大的民生，如何扩大就业对社会稳定和经济发展意义重大。本文基于投入产出表数据构建企业宏观层面的数字化转型指标，并基于中国31个省份代表性报纸构建中国省级行政区经济政策不确定性指数，考察企业数字化转型对经济政策不确定性与劳动力就业规模关系的影响。研究发现，经济政策不确定性对劳动力就业存在破坏效应，数字化转型能够有效缓解经济政策不确定性对劳动力就业的不利影响。机制检验发现，数字化主要通过减弱企业对经济政策不确定性的感知度、缓解企业融资压力和减弱企业金融化动机的途径缓解经济政策不确定性对劳动力就业的破坏效应。异质性分析表明，这一缓解作用在东部地区、知识产权保护强地区和国有属性企业效果更强。此外，数字化转型对第三产业和中高技能劳动力就业规模的缓解效果更强，有助于提升就业质量。本文基于企业数字化角度为高效减轻经济政策不确定对劳动力就业的破坏效应提供了新的经验证据。

With fintech growth and smartphone adoption, e-wallets, which enable instant transactions while offering cash management products with financial returns, have become increasingly prevalent. Using a unique dataset from Alipay, the world’s largest e-wallet provider, we find that holdings in Yu’EBao—an investment product usable for payments—are less affected by interest rate changes than similar assets without payment functions. This effect is stronger for users who depend on Yu’EBao for daily spending, during peak payment periods, or among less experienced investors. Our findings show that Yu’EBao reduces retail fund flow to riskier assets by 7.7% for every one-percentage-point interest rate cut, dampening monetary policy transmission through the portfolio rebalancing channel.

本文以沪深港通交易制度实施为准自然实验，选取2011-2023年沪深A股上市公司数据，探究金融开放对企业产品竞争力的影响机制。研究发现：（1）沪深港通交易制度的实施显著提升了企业的产品竞争力，此结论经过一系列稳健性检验后仍成立；（2）机制检验表明，沪深港通交易制度主要通过两条路径来提升企业产品竞争力，一是竞争压力倒逼效应，推动企业实施产品差异化战略和提升创新能力，重塑竞争优势。二是资源配置效应，通过优化人力资本结构，改善融资环境和拓展出口渠道，帮助企业实现要素升级，进而增强产品竞争力；（3）异质性检验发现，政策效果在资本密集型行业、盈利能力低及环境信息披露质量低样本中更为显著。本文丰富了金融开放对企业影响的实证研究，为党的二十大提出的“推进高水平制度型开放”提供了微观证据。

摘 要：随着互联网与电子贸易的发展，用户的个人隐私保护机制已成为当今社会的热点议 题之一。本文探讨《中华人民共和国个人信息保护法》实施对企业创新的影响。选取2021年《个 人信息保护法》的实施作为准自然实验以构建双重差分模型，并以机构投资者和分析师关注度为 中介变量构建机制分析。在《个人信息保护法》实施后，实验组比对照组的每年专利数量增量减 少了 12.4%。《个人信息保护法》的实施短期内对企业获职数据的能力造成限制，因此会抑制数 字化转型程度较高的企业的创新活动。此外，机制分析表明《个人信息保护法》通过抑制机构持 股比例和分析师关注度进而抑制企业创新，这一结论与异质性检验结果一致，即尽管长远看有助 于构建健康数字经济环境，该抑制效应短期内在国有高数字化转型水平企业及非四大审计的企业 中更为显著。

As digital transformation strategies have emerged as a primary approach for enterprises to enhance their Total Factor Productivity (TFP), it is crucial to empirically examine the impact of these strategies on TFP. For this purpose, this study considers these transformation strategies as a quasi-natural experiment and employees a propensity score-weighted difference-indifferences methodology on data from Chinese firms listed on the A-share market between 2007 and 2020. The key findings include: (1) digital transformation has a significant positive influence on TFP; (2) Generalized boosted regression trees analysis reinforces this finding after controlling for other TFP determinants; (3) notably, non-state-owned and technology-intensive enterprises exhibit a more distinct enhancement in TFP following digital transformation. These results underscore the need for firms to increase investment in research and development capabilities and digital competencies.

The aging population is expanding globally, and addressing the challenges of elderly care is urgent. Using the 2019 China Household Finance Survey data, this study finds that commercial pension insurance significantly promotes households’ allocation of risky financial assets. We test the mechanisms using household risk perception and investment risk preference as mediating variables. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the positive effect of commercial pension insurance on risky financial asset allocation is more significant in rural households with household registration, those with two sets of housing, and households in the northeast. The research findings of this article aim to promote the continuous improvement of China’s elderly care system and provide important empirical evidence for the formulation of relevant policies.

This study assesses the impact of China’s Green Credit Guidelines (GCG) 2012 on the quality of firms’ green innovation and their financial asset allocations. While examining patent applications and grants, our findings reveal that, although the GCG 2012 led to a significant increase in green patent applications, its influence on granted patents, especially in the invention category, was minimal. This highlights a discrepancy between innovation intent and quality, suggesting that highpolluting enterprises (HPEs) prioritize rapid policy compliance rather than substantial environmental improvements. However, HPEs seem to prioritize liquidity over long-term financialization, potentially indicating enhanced credit allocation efficiency.

We investigate the impact of financial geographic density on corporate financial asset holdings in emerging market. We proxy for financial geographic density by calculating the number of financial institutions around a firm within a certain radius based on the geographic distance between the firm and financial institutions. Using data on publicly listed A-share firms in China from 2011 to 2021, we find that financial geographic density has a positive impact on nonfinancial firms’ financial asset investments, especially for the firms located in regions with a larger number of banking depository financial institutions or facing greater market competition. An increase in the number of financial institutions surrounding firms increases corporate financial asset holdings by alleviating information asymmetry. Moreover, we document that Fintech has little impact on the relationship between financial geographic density and corporate financial asset holdings. As the rise of financial geographic density, firms hold more financial assets for precautionary motives, which contribute to corporate innovation.

Firstly, the article elaborates on the concepts of metaverse and industrial metaverse, pointing out that the metaverse has driven changes and optimizations in multiple dimensions such as urban form, social organization form, and industrial production form; Secondly, the metaverse has empowered urban governance in Guangzhou, improving the efficiency of urban management, enhancing the city's emergency management capabilities, improving the quality of interaction between people and the city, and promoting the construction of a smart city; Once again, the focus was on the practices and good results achieved by Guangzhou in utilizing blockchain technology, digital twin technology, generative artificial intelligence technology, unmanned aerial vehicles+AI and other technologies in urban governance and serving the public; Finally, it is clarified that metaverse related technologies will promote the integration of carbon based civilization and silicon-based civilization in urban and social governance. Humans can use silicon-based civilization technology to expand their living space and improve their quality of life, while silicon-based civilization can also draw inspiration from the culture and emotions of carbon based life, achieving more comprehensive development.