美国SAKS公司的越库配送系统

当今，越库配送为希望精简原产地到销售点供应链的零售商提供了巨大的发展潜力，除了可以消除不必要的产品输送和存储工作以及所有与过量存货相关的直接成本外，越库配送还为零售商提供了进一步节约成本的潜在可能。如果需要存储的产品数量较少，存储并输送该产品所需的空间和设备也会减少，这样订单履行速度将会提高而且产品损坏和过期的可能性也大大降低。     

Part-Time Employment of Married Women in the U.S.A

A bstract . The rapid growth since 1970, and especially in the 1980s, of part-time and temporary employment was attributed to the transition of the economy from manufacturing to service production and to labor demand side factors. Since part-timers are predominantly women and the majority of the female labor force are married women, the association between the female labor force participation rate and the part-time employment of married women across the 48 continental states of America in 1980 are explored. The empirical study supports the positive association between the two variables, but fails to support the role of the service sector in explaining part-time employment of married women across the states of America.     

A comparative study of bureaucratic corruption in Latin America and the U.S.A.

The starting point of this paper is a conceptual model of bureaucratic corruption, based on the assumption that bureaucrats (a) maximize personal utilities, and (b) control a monopoly in the production of certain goods and services. This conceptual model leads to a system of three equations representing demand, supply and market clearance of the goods and services supplied by the bureaucracy. Using the market clearance equation, an equation for the level of corruption in a bureaucracy is obtained. The conceptual model helps to specify the signs of the partial derivatives of the level of corruption with respect to the explanatory variables. Two sets of data are used to test the model. The first refers to levels of corruption in the bureaucracies of 17 Latin American countries, while the second deals with levels of corruption of Federal officials working in individual states in the U.S.A., state officials, and local officials. The conclusions obtained thus far using the statistical analysis confirm the expectations derived with the conceptual model.     

美国联邦大学生贷款资助体系研究

美国联邦大学生贷款资助体系经过半个多世纪的发展,已经成为一个相对完善的体系,包含有多种贷款项目和还款方式,并且具备了多样性、灵活性和政府担保性等主要特征。其成功的经验为中国的国家助学贷款改革提供了新的思路。     

A revisit to economic exposure of U.S. multinational corporations

To shed light on the influence of U.S. major trade partners’ currencies on MNCs’ firm values, this study investigates the asymmetric effects and the determinants of appreciated and depreciated economic exposure of the U.S. MNCs. Our empirical results reveal several findings: (1) The influences of exchange rate fluctuation on stock returns vary enormously for different currencies. (2) During the U.S. dollar appreciating period, MNCs benefit very little from this appreciation against major trade partners’ currencies, but most MNCs see harmful impacts from a U.S. dollar appreciation against the Brazilian real. (3) During the U.S. dollar depreciating period, most U.S. MNCs benefit from this depreciation against the European Monetary Union’s euro, Mexican new peso and Brazilian real; however, they overall suffer losses against the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, and British pound. (4) The level of foreign sales is the key determinant of economic exposure.     

美国《复苏与再投资法案》浅析

浅析了美国<复苏与再投资法案>的优势:先进的制度设计,促使投资尽早起效;严格的程序要求,保证投资准确到位;监管方式的多样,确保投资全面落实.