This study examines whether and how minimum wage hikes affect workers’ strikes in the context of China. We show that minimum wage significantly increases strikes at the city-level, and this effect is mainly motivated by demands for unpaid wages and severance pay. Mechanism analysis reveals that workers’ strikes are caused by inevitable involuntary unemployment arising from wage hikes. In addition, the increase in workers’ strike activities is more significant in tertiary industries, which require a larger share of low-wage workers and in regions with a higher degree of digital economy and innovation. Our findings provide clear policy implications for policymakers concerned with minimum wage and unemployment.

金融创新分散风险的行为虽然对提升金融效率有益，但通常也伴随着系统性金融风险的累积。本文改进最新的“去一”法，运用云计算技术和分年度各2000万次蒙特卡洛模拟实验，测算2010-2021年包括中小银行在内的684家商业银行的系统性风险贡献值和易被忽视的间接关联风险，深度理论思考并实证探索银行数字化这一金融创新的伴生关联风险溢价，以及其系统性风险累积效应源泉。主要结论如下：首先，针对第一个新视角，银行数字化转型通过数字科技相关度提高基础资产相关度，从而产生了易被忽视的间接关联风险。这主要是因为中小银行跟随性创新引致了基础资产同质化，大银行则不显著。其次，针对第二个新视角，商业银行的数字化具有显著的系统性风险累积效应。这主要由个体风险主导，而总关联风险则显著下降，说明数字化虽然有助于分散风险，但激励了总量的风险承担水平。具体来说，其有利的一面在于拓展了新投融资渠道，降低了同业投资和负债，实现风险分散。除间接关联风险之外，其负向机制在于新投资渠道使得商业银行有能力进行高风险高收益的资产配置，但是对盈利能力提升作用不明显，导致提升了其风险承担乃至个体风险水平。最后，进一步探索研究表明，大银行通过数字化下沉业务的挤压效应，使中小银行表现出“太小而无法竞争”的现象，是系统性风险累积的主因。具体来说，中小银行在大银行数字化下沉业务的挤压下，导致数字化开拓新业务承担较高风险的同时，盈利效果、融资成本和风控优势均不明显。并且排除了监管约束和数字化门槛效应的替代假说。上述研究拓展了“太关联而不能倒”的理论以及发现了“太小而无法竞争”的典型现象，也有助于丰富关于银行数字化上述两个新视角的理论认识，并且对于推进数字金融的穿透式监管和行为监管，从源头上防范化解系统性风险具有重要政策参考意义。

文章在“不利冲击—集中型制度适应性效率—经济韧性”的框架下分析中国经济遭遇不利冲击时保持强劲韧性的制度根源。当经济遭遇不利冲击时,政府凸显“集中力量办大事”的制度优势并充分发挥公有制经济作用,将有限资源进行再配置,支持和扶持受冲击地区或者城市,对冲不利冲击的负面影响,使得经济快速恢复增长,从而保持经济韧性。文章采用地震这一不利冲击,运用 CRITIC-熵权 TOPSIS 模型测算出 1997—2020 年经济韧性和集中型制度适应性效率,检验集中型制度适应性效率的对冲效应。实证分析发现：（1）地震对经济韧性的负面冲击为 5.830 个百分点,集中型制度适应性效率的对冲效应为 6.452 个百分点；（2）集中型制度适应性效率的对冲效应存在地区差异,南方集中型制度适应性效率的对冲效应为 12.423 个百分点,北方集中型制度适应性效率的对冲效应为 5.500 个百分点；（3）政府部门适应性效率的对冲效应为 2.381 个百分点,银行部门适应性效率的对冲效应为 3.746 个百分点,企业部门适应性效率的对冲效应为 2.218 个百分点；（4）南方地区三个部门的对冲效应均高于北方地区,而且南北地区银行部门的对冲效应均最高,其次是政府部门的对冲效应,企业部门的对冲效应最低。上述发现是稳健的,从而揭示了制度适应性效率对中国经济保持强劲韧性的关键作用。因此,改革开放以来中国基础性制度建设和基本经济制度的不断完善是经济韧性形成的重要原因。

This paper decomposes news-implied linkages into two types: leader-follower links (LF) and peer links (PE), based on people's reading and information-processing habits. We explore how the structure of information impacts processing costs and subsequently leads to market outcomes by examining momentum spillover effects via these distinct linkage types. Our findings indicate that the information structure of leader-follower links is more readily comprehensible to investors than peer linkages. We provide empirical evidence of this by demonstrating faster attention spillover from leader to follower than among peer firms, using Baidu search data. Furthermore, we document that due to the lower information processing cost, information transmits through the leader-follower linkages more quickly, leading to a weaker momentum spillover effect compared to the more complex and less easily perceivable peer links.

Secular declines in global sovereign yields are concentrated in short event windows around U.S. monetary policy announcement dates. Cumulative changes in sovereign yields during FOMC announcement dates contain critical information for explaining the persistent variations in the yields, predicting future yields and excess bond returns, and determining interest rate expectations and term premia. We build a dynamic term structure model with shifting endpoints to study the effects of U.S. monetary policy on world yield curves. Our findings highlight that U.S. monetary policy drives the secular declines in global interest rates by reducing expected interest rates.

布雷顿森林体系结束后所形成的以美元所主导的国际货币体系的一个基本特征是，美元这一主权国家货币作为世界货币取代了金本位和金汇兑本位时期具有超主权性质的黄金。本文将单一国家的主权货币作为世界货币引入到多国动态模型，分析了这一国际货币体系不仅涉及到非世界货币发行国家的货币政策独立性和货币主权等问题，还会改变各国货币政策的决策激励并给全球带来更高的通胀率，从而产生更大的福利成本。同时，世界货币发行国的货币政策的全球外部性会放大，并在福利水平上带来全球的不平等。本文的研究表明一个好的国际货币体系应该保证所有国家的货币主权、货币政策的独立性且尽可能对全球产生最小的外部性，并能够激励各国实现一个更低的通胀目标以降低通胀的福利成本。

行为金融学的发展离不开各种心理学理论。大量的心理学研究成果显示，人们在进行实际的投资决策时，其信念的形成并不遵循贝叶斯理性，其选择的偏好也并非满足“理性”的假设，而是存在种种“非理性”的局限。事实上，这种“非理性”成为人们在实际生活中的一种普遍的思维和决策模式，对其决策行为和结果产生总体的和长远的影响，典型的如代表性思维、经验法则、锚定与调整效应、框定依赖偏差、首因效应和近因效应、证实偏差等。本文在介绍这些经典金融心理学理论的同时，予以借鉴并对我国A股市场上发生的投资者心理就行了分析，本文成果对于研究我国证券市场投资者的心理状态具有较强的启迪与借鉴意义。

This work explored the changes in production decision-making trends of Chinese steel enterprises under the influence of the carbon border adjustment mechanism. First, using evolutionary game theory, the interactive mechanism of complex production strategies among steel enterprises considering the carbon border adjustment mechanism was studied, including the impact of government subsidy coefficients, additional profits and carbon tax prices on enterprise decisionmaking.Second, the influence of key parameters on the dynamic evolutionary process was analysed. On this basis, the empirical simulation method was used to verify the game model and the main conclusions. Finally, the sensitivity analysis of the selected parameters was determined using Matlab software. The results showed that additional profits from green investment, government subsidy coefficients, input-output values and carbon tax prices had a higher impact on the evolution of enterprise production strategies. The results of this study provide a decision-making basis for the selection of future production methods for steel enterprises.

Using the firm-level data of the Chinese industrial sector from 1998 to 2010, this study investigates the impact of the previous environmental protection experience of prefecture-level Communist Party secretaries on the COD regulation within the secretaries’ respective jurisdictions. The study finds that the secretaries’ previous environmental protection experience has reduced the COD discharge intensity. The duration of the previous environmental protection experience is selected as an instrumental variable and the endogeneity is further addressed; the research conclusion remains unchanged. However, this negative impact only lasts for two years and presents an unclear long-term impact. The negative effect on COD discharge intensity caused by the previous environmental protection experience is affected by the mandatory regulation pressure from the central government and the overall polluting density of the sub-sectors. Secretaries with previous environmental protection experience do not reduce the COD discharge intensity by using the punishment mechanism of increasing sewage charges. The secretaries, instead, encourage enterprises to use clean production technology, save water resources, and reduce the produced COD level. Also, the secretaries place an emphasis on the treatment of wastewater pollutants, thus reducing the COD discharge intensity. The conclusions of this study can provide decisionmaking reference for the selection and training of local officials, with the goal of environmental regulation.

Overseas compliance management is crucial for multinationals to operate with high character, but existing research has paid little attention to emerging multinationals’ overseas misconduct. Focusing on different directions and the interaction of the institutional gap and aspiration gap, we conducted an empirical analysis of a sample of Chinese multinationals who engaged in outward direct investment from 2009 to 2021 and found that in the case of a negative institutional gap, there is a positive linear correlation between a positive/negative aspiration gap and overseas misconduct. In the case of apositive institutional gap, there is a U-shaped relationship between a positive aspiration gap and overseas misconduct, and an inverted U-shaped relationship between a negative aspiration gap and overseas misconduct. Research conclusions bridge the divergence of the institutional paradox and aspiration paradox, provide a nuanced understanding on overseas misconduct, and distinguish different situations to guide emerging multinationals to operate in compliance overseas.