Negotiating for Money: Adding a Dose of Reality to Classroom Negotiations

Negotiation and conflict management courses have become increasingly common in business schools around the world. Frequently, these courses employ role plays and simulations to encourage students to try new strategies, tactics, techniques, and behaviors. While these simulations generally are designed to elicit realistic negotiation dynamics, they often lack the full emotional tension inherent in actual negotiations. One possible reason for this reduced tension is that no tangible resources, such as money, are at stake. This article describes an experiment in which MBA students paid a player's fee at the beginning of a negotiation course, and in which each negotiation exercise had an actual dollar value at risk. The article reports some results from this experiment and offers suggestions for instructors who might seek to add a player's fee to their own courses. In general, most students found the experience valuable, as it provided performance benchmarks while focusing their attention more sharply on risks and returns.     

审理存单纠纷案件若干问题探讨

最高人民法院公布的《关于审理存单纠纷案件的若干规定》司法解释施行八年来,全国法院依据该司法解释审结了大量的存单纠纷案件,取得了丰硕的成果,但是在适用该司法解释时各地法院的认识却不尽相同,特别是在存款的所有权归属、存单的法律特征、以存单为表现形式的借贷纠纷案件的认定、公款私存问题等方面的认识仍存在分歧,本文将对上述问题进行分析。     

两岸跨境犯罪新情势、新问题分析

2010年的"1011"与"0810"项目,以及2011年的"0310"项目行动,让人们见识到跨境电话诈骗之猖獗。事实上,打击跨境犯罪的困境,体现在"跨境"的字义上。从犯罪人的角度而言,跨境犯罪的实施,便意味着增加了执法机关追诉的困难并降低了犯罪人被捕的风险。另外,在此信息社会下,两岸跨境犯罪呈现组织化、科技化、隐蔽化、严重化及被害普及化之新趋势,传统跨境治理体系已无法处理日益复杂化的全球跨境犯罪问题。如何避免全球治理缺口,即"管辖权的缺口"、"参与性的缺口"、"诱因性的缺口"及"功能性的缺口",成为当前防治跨境犯罪急需注意的课题。所以,未来两岸为了有效防治跨境犯罪,应以全球化治理的观点来检视两岸跨境犯罪问题,以强调"网络"、"互赖"及"规制"的特质(低政治、高功能),建立一个永续合作的发展模式,共创两岸人民双赢的局面。     

我国洗钱犯罪立法剖析

控制和惩治洗钱犯罪是包括我国在内的国际社会的共同任务。我国现行刑法关于洗钱罪的规定存在诸多不足,需要进一步加以完善。本文参照国际公约的有关规定,结合我国的国情,就我国反洗钱刑事立法的完善提出建议。     

Where Are the Big Five Headed?

正China’s banking behemoths face unprecedented challenges In China, there is a widely held stereotype concerning major state-owned commercial banks: They never have to sweat or bleed to make money. Instead, they just lie on their back and whistle as torrents of cash flow to them endlessly.The good old days, however, may be gone. Although the five biggest state-owned banks posted profits as hefty as usual in 2013, they are now cornered by more     

广东跨境汇兑型“地下钱庄”现状及治理对策

跨境汇兑型"地下钱庄"问题涉及两岸四地,严重破坏金融管理秩序、市场经济秩序,影响正常司法活动。由于社会制度、司法体系等多种因素的差异性,目前粤港澳台警方在合作打击"地下钱庄"跨境汇兑方面存在不少亟待改善的地方,需要两岸四地在办案协作、制度建设、情报交流等方面共同努力加以解决。     

网络电信诈骗犯罪帮助取款行为的定性——以两个文件存在的冲突为切入点

关于在网络电信诈骗犯罪中帮助取款行为,在《关于办理诈骗刑事案件具体应用法律若干问题的解释》和《关于办理电信网络诈骗等刑事案件适用法律若干问题的意见》两份文件中均有体现,但是二者对于帮助取款行为的认定存在冲突,表现为对"明知"的内容和程度的认定有差异、帮助取款行为的时间节点的认定不同、对诈骗罪既未遂标准判定不同。网络电信诈骗帮助取款行为定性的路径选择是:对"明知"内容和程度的认定进行类型化判断;对帮助取款行为介入的时间节点进行类型化划分;以"失控说"作为判断诈骗罪既未遂的标准。     

Harnessing Market Competition in PPP Procurement: The Importance of Periodically Taking a Strategic View

Public‐Private Partnerships (PPP) procurement is routinely portrayed as offering greater scope for harnessing competitive market forces to secure Value for Money (VfM) than traditional procurement approaches ( OECD 2008 ). The aim of this article is (a) to demonstrate the importance of periodically taking a more systematic and strategic view when assessing VfM in PPP procurement ( OGC 2003 ), and (b) to develop an analytical framework for such an analysis. Road infrastructure procurement in South East Queensland is used as a case study to test the usefulness of the proposed framework, and to show how a narrow focus on individual contracts increases the risk of overlooking overdependence on one supplier ( OGC 2003 ). Discussion focuses on the need to combine detailed analysis of individual contracts with longitudinal analyses of market competitiveness when assessing best VfM.     

Three paradigms in a single monetary circulation

The nature of money is simple and easy to understand, both what it is and what it was; it is the ＂law of gravity＂ we all understand. Many macroeconomic concepts and operations are based on money. Without it, they would be impossible to comprehend and, in fact, can only be understood by methodically tracking the circulation of money. There are three core paradigms of money and money circulation： the money multiplier, the velocity of circulation of money income and the money-income multiplier. In this paper, we try to demystify or decouple some of these circulatory mechanisms in order to establish, to the extent that is possible, a single comprehensive theory. A comprehensive theory or an approximation to such demands that the three economic operations corresponding to the above three paradigms form part of the same monetary macroeconomic phenomenon. To prove workable, it requires that the formulae arrived at being represented by a single mathematical expression. This paper shows that there is a conflict between, on one hand, the inevitable and persistent economic intuition that relates the three paradigms and, on the other, the mathematical formulae （and their components） that occasionally negate this.     

试论违约责任中定金、违约金、赔偿损失的竞合与适用

本文从违约责任的一般理论入手 ,着重论述了违约责任中定金、违约金、赔偿损失责任形式之间的关系 ,旨在解决现实生活中三者如何具体运用、能否一并适用等法律问题 ,分析了在适用三者的过程中应注意的几个问题。