数字普惠金融、数字创新与经济增长——基于省级面板数据的实证考察

数字普惠金融、数字创新已经成为驱动经济高质量发展的关键。利用省级面板数据，构建固定效应模型考察了数字普惠金融对区域经济增长的作用及其内在机制。研究表明：数字普惠金融不仅能够通过激励数字创新促进地区经济增长，而且其使用深度对经济增长、数字创新的促进作用均是最大的，覆盖广度、数字化程度的影响较小；进一步研究发现，数字普惠金融对经济增长、数字创新的作用程度存在区域性差异，数字普惠金融对中部和西部地区经济增长的推动作用较强，对数字创新促进作用在东北地区较强；而数字创新在中部地区的中介作用较大，在西部地区则较小。因此，应当持续推进数字普惠金融发展，多方推动数字创新战略实施，形成区域协调联动发展格局，促进经济不断增长。     

区域创业资本与经济增长关系——基于中部地区面板数据的研究

将区域创业资本作为新的经济增长要素纳入到经济增长模型,运用CPEA指数测度创业资本在中部地区各省的分布,并对1999—2011年中部地区省级面板数据进行回归分析,探讨中部地区区域创业资本与经济增长的关系。研究发现:创业资本在中部地区的分布处在较低水平,各省创业资本呈现不平衡性;虽然中部地区经济增长仍主要依靠实物资本和劳动数量的增加,中部地区的创业资本对中部地区经济增长的拉动较弱,还不足以支撑"创业型经济"模式,但创业资本已显著地影响中部地区经济增长;就各省情况而言,中部地区除山西与湖南外,其它各省创业资本与经济增长关系显著,且创业资本存量高的省份创业资本对经济增长的影响程度高。     

对外贸易的经济增长效应研究——区域经济视角下的面板数据检验

运用中部地区1995—2008年的省际面板数据,实证分析了对外贸易对地区经济增长的影响。研究结果显示：中部地区的出口增长拉动了地区经济增长;由于存在“为出口而进口”、缺乏技术人才等原因,进口对经济增长产生了负向的影响;进出口的总量较小,其对经济增长的影响较小,因此中部发展外向型经济具有很大的空间。     

中部塌陷、金融弱化与中部崛起的金融支持

本文从分析中部地区经济与金融发展的现状入手,探究中部地区经济增长瓶颈以及金融弱化之间的关系,并运用中部六省的省级数据,通过面板数据单位根检验、协整检验与误差修正模型,对中部地区金融发展与经济增长总量、产业结构优化以及城镇化水平之间的长期关系和短期关系进行了研究。结果显示,中部金融发展与经济增长具有长期的均衡关系,金融发展能够为中部崛起提供有利的支持,但在短期则无明显关系。在此基础上,提出了实现中部崛起与金融发展的路径选择与政策建议。     

关于加快中部地区农村商品流通市场发展的思考

当前中部地区农村商品流通市场发展速度还不够快速，无法满足El益增长的农村居民的消费需要，在当前国际金融危机的背景下，为刺激国内消费市场，加快中部地区经济复苏，中部地区省份应研究中部地区农村商品流通市场存在的问题，采取适当的措施，加快中部地区农村商品流通市场建设尤为重要。     

分税制改革、地方政府干预和金融加速器效应——基于中部地区1995～2008年面板数据的实证分析

运用双向固定效应模型,实证分析了中部地区地方政府对金融发展的干预对金融加速经济发展的效应的影响。研究表明,在经济转型期,中部地区金融业的低水平稳态发展成为阻碍地区经济增长的不利因素。而地方政府因发展经济的强烈动机,适当干预金融发展能弥补地方金融自身发展的不足,促进金融发展推动地区的经济增长。     

中东部地区区域经济竞争力定量比较研究

新经济增长理论对经济增长的研究表明,一国要取得经济持续增长必须长期重视教育、发展教育和培养人才,必须重视知识进步和知识积累。对我国中东部地区经济竞争力具体因素的比较研究表明:(1)我国中部地区在经济实力、经济管理水平、涉外能力、科技竞争力、基础设施和国民素质等各分类竞争力方面,与东部沿海地区都有一定的差距,但前四类竞争力的差距更大一些。应该说这四类竞争力的差距是造成中部经济竞争力整体弱于东部沿海的主要原因。(2)中部地区在人均GDP等方面与沿海地区存在很大的差距。(3)如果说资本、劳动力与技术是推动经济增长的…     

金融发展与经济增长的区域差异研究——基于我国省际面板数据的实证检验

本文通过建立基于我国31个省1978—2009年数据的面板模型,按照国家统计局的东、中、西部划分标准,采用面板单位根和协整检验方法分别对这三个地区金融发展对经济增长的促进作用进行了实证分析。检验结果表明,不论在东部、中部还是西部,金融发展与经济增长都具有长期均衡关系,金融发展对经济增长都发挥着重要作用,但是金融发展对经济增长的贡献水平在各地区之间存在差异,中部地区金融发展对其经济增长的促进作用最大,接下来是东部地区,西部地区最小。为了缩小区域经济发展差距、实现我国经济协调发展,推进西部地区金融发展成为当务之急。     

外商直接投资与中部六省经济增长相关性分析

随着＂中部崛起＂政策的实施,中部地区吸引外资数量越来越多,对中部区域经济发展起了重要的推动作用。本文利用1995～2009年中部6个省的数据研究中部地区FDI与经济增长的关系,根据实证分析的结果,为中部地区利用外资提供政策建议。     

我国中部地区对外贸易与经济增长关系的实证研究

本文利用1980～2004年的经济数据,在单位根检验和协整分析的基础上进行了Granger因果检验和建立误差修正模型,对我国中部地区对外贸易与经济增长关系进行了实证研究。结果表明:我国中部地区进出口与经济增长之间存在长期稳定的均衡关系,进出口与经济增长之间是单向的格兰杰因果关系,出口对经济增长的作用大于进口,应该继续坚持出口导向型经济发展战略,同时重视进口的作用。     

Pleasure and belief in Hume's Decision Process

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – we lay emphasis less on continuity than on the specific kind of hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays). Such hedonism clearly contrasts to its standard modern inheritance, expressed by the relation between preferences and utility.

The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition that come immediately before action. As a result, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well as with intertemporal decision and indiscrimination problems.

The latter are explored within a formal framework, and it is shown that the relation of pleasure is transformed by belief into a non-empty class of relations of desire, among which at least one is a preorder.     

Globalization,Neoliberalism and the attack on social security

Neoliberal political movements advocate privatization of public pension systems. Globalization imposes pressure on nations to conform to neoliberal policy views with respect to the design and structure of social insurance, including public pension systems. The paper begins with an investigation of the economic, ethical and ideological dimensions of the privatization debates in the U.S.; it argues that privatization advocates may be largely moved by ideology, since the other reasons advanced appear weak or unfounded. The second part discusses the history of Social Security, the purposes for its creation, and some of its economic effects. Differences between public and private pension systems are considered. A brief international comparison of some aspects of public pension system finance and benefit structures is presented. The final section considers the ethical, macroeconomic and distributional implications of privatization, prefunding and payroll tax funding, and argues for a pay as you go system financed with income taxes. In order to promote equity, economic security, community, and social cohesion, public pension systems should be universal in coverage. In order to reduce the inequality, income insecurity, and aged poverty generated by market economies, public pension systems ought to be progressive: benefit/contribution ratios should be inversely proportional to income, and progressive income taxes should finance the system. To promote economic growth, the systems should be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, and should not be prefunded except for an emergency reserve. The fiscal policy recommendations partially depend upon the theory developed by Abba Lerner in the 1940s, and recently advanced by Wynne Godley and Randy Wray: Lerner's “principle of functional finance.”     

John Stuart Mill's Theory Of Justice

John Stuart Mill has traditionally been portrayed as self-contradictory and failing to construct a unified social theory. Recent scholarship, however, has challenged this view, finding Mill's work to be creatively synthetic in bridging the antinomies inherent in liberal democratic thought. This revisionist interpretation of Mill is advanced by an understanding of his theory of justice and its role in shaping his policy positions on issues such as welfare, education, voting rights, property rights, taxation, government intervention, and the future of capitalism.     

A Rich Vein for “Reality Mining”北大核心CSSCISSCI

Arik Hesseldahl In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, U.S. officials quickly turned their attention to other potential targets, including California's Golden Gate Bridge. What would happen if terrorists took down the bridge between San Francisco and Marin County? How much of the region would be affected and for how long?     

Perspective on the Economic Evolution of the European Union States Under the Impact of the Pandemic and Financial-Economic Crisis

The European Union,which is at the beginning of its term of office for all Member States in the European Parliament,the European Commission,its governing body a...     

中国养活自己能力的长期预测:技术和政策分析

中国拥有世界五分之一强的人口 ,收入又在迅速增长。因此 ,国际上很自然地会考虑或推测她在今后的几十年是否有能力养活自己。中国的人口预计将从 2 0 0 0年的 1 2 8亿增长到 2 0 2 0年的 1 4 6亿 ,和 2 0 3 0年的 1 4 9亿。与此同时 ,人均收入的增长将导致对家畜和鱼类产品更大的需求 ,因而对饲料的需求也将有很大的增长     

Interest on reserves and inflation

The payment of interest on reserves has been a common practice in inflationary economies. This policy may seem paradoxical since it involves returning part of the seigniorage, generated by the inflation process, with the intention to finance the fiscal deficit. This paper argues that the motivation for this policy can be captured by the discretionary regime, where the policymaker pays interest on reserves because he is concerned with the erosion of real liquidity by inflation, which is in part beyond his control. However, this policy is an unlikely outcome in the commitment regime, where the policymaker is in full control of inflation.     

John Stuart Mill's Theories of Wealth and Income Distribution

Although he was much influenced by David Ricardo when he wrote the classical part of his Principles , John Stuart Mill was not a Ricardian when he penned his theories of wealth and distribution. They are based on a triple foundation. First, a belief that economics is a moral discipline. Second a theory of custom-driven human behavior. Third, an empirically formed conviction that the institutions of state, education and business cooperate to structure the distribution of income. On the basis of these presuppositions, Mill formulated 1) an institutional theory of the formation of human and non-human wealth and 2) an even more institutional theory of distribution demonstrating how the aforementioned institutions malignantly skew the distribution of income to the advantage of the propertied classes and to the extreme disadvantage of the working class. As a social economist, Mill recommended institutional reforms designed to eradicate the poverty of the working class.     

Forecasting the price of gold

This article seeks to evaluate the appropriateness of a variety of existing forecasting techniques (17 methods) at providing accurate and statistically significant forecasts for gold price. We report the results from the nine most competitive techniques. Special consideration is given to the ability of these techniques to provide forecasts which outperforms the random walk (RW) as we noticed that certain multivariate models (which included prices of silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium, besides gold) were also unable to outperform the RW in this case. Interestingly, the results show that none of the forecasting techniques are able to outperform the RW at horizons of 1 and 9 steps ahead, and on average, the exponential smoothing model is seen providing the best forecasts in terms of the lowest root mean squared error over the 24-month forecasting horizons. Moreover, we find that the univariate models used in this article are able to outperform the Bayesian autoregression and Bayesian vector autoregressive models, with exponential smoothing reporting statistically significant results in comparison with the former models, and classical autoregressive and the vector autoregressive models in most cases.