Wage and Price Inflation in Poland in the Period of Transition: The Cointegration Analysis

The paper focuses on the long run relationships between wages, prices and labour productivity in the Polish economy by applying recent developments in the field of multivariate cointegration analysis. We followed modeling strategy which is suggested by Greenslade et al. (1999) and present all stages of the analysis which leads to the fully economically identified system of equations representing long run relationships. The investigation is based on the quarterly data from 1992.1 to 1999.2 which covers the period of transition of the Polish economy from the centrally planned system towards the market one. Basing on the empirical results we can argue that wages (costs) were one of the main forces driving inflation in Poland during that period. Also labor productivity proved to be stimulated by the increase of the real wages. On the other hand the hypothesis concerning the relationship between wages and unemployment was rejected by the data.     

Optimal Patent Protection in a Two-Sector Economy

This article addresses the issue of optimal patent protection in an economy with a downstream and an upstream sector. The key insight is that higher patent protection in the downstream sector raises the incentives of agents to do R&D in that sector but discourages innovation in the upstream sector because of a market size effect. Hence, higher patent protection in the upstream sector accelerates growth whereas higher patent protection in the downstream sector slows it down. If some innovation is socially desirable, optimal patent protection is necessarily higher in the upstream than in the downstream sector.     

Explaining the Cross‐Section of Stock Returns in Japan: Factors or Characteristics?

Japanese stock returns are even more closely related to their book-to-market ratios than are their U.S. counterparts, and thus provide a good setting for testing whether the return premia associated with these characteristics arise because the characteristics are proxies for covariance with priced factors. Our tests, which replicate the Daniel and Titman (1997) tests on a Japanese sample, reject the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model, but fail to reject the characteristic model.     

中国城市化的背后--农业的潜在危机

城市化的实质含义是人类进入工业社会时代,社会经济发展速度加快,农业活动的比重逐渐下降、非农业活动的比重逐步上升的发展过程.与这种经济结构的变动相适应,乡村人口比重逐渐降低,城镇人口比重稳步上升,居民的精神面貌和人们的生活方式逐渐向城镇性质转化和强化.2000年中央提出<促进小城镇健康发展的若干意见>,各地掀起"城市化"和"工业化"甚至是"经营城市"的浪潮,致使大量的农业用地转为非农用途,同时产生了大量的失地农民,形成了四千万的失去土地又没有社会保障的农民存在,严重阻碍了城市化的进程.     

涛雒鱼骨庙

日照市靠海,在其辖区内的历史文化名镇涛雒镇,有一座颇具特点的鱼骨庙. 据史料记载,涛雒从汉代(公元前206年)开始就是商贾云集之地,到明朝时,已是人口密集、生意兴旺,再到后来,尤其进入20世纪初期,它已成了方圆百里的名镇.商户100多家,有银行,贩运、商铺、客栈、茶楼等,整个古镇经济繁荣、物流通畅,教育超前,名人辈出.     

满意度测评结果分类分析

满意指数已经成为许多国家衡量经济产出质量的重要指标，为宏观经济管理提供了有效的决策参考依据，但是，如何进一步开发利用满意指数调查信息，加大对微观层面的经济组织经营管理活动的指导作用，仍然是满意度研究的重要课题。本文利用真实的用户满意指数测评调查数据，对营销管理中用户类型划分问题进行了分析，结果表明，用户满意指数测评调查数据，可以准确地将用户划分为逃离型、趋利型、受制型和忠诚型。     

道路交通对城市空间形态的影响

城市交通方式和道路系统的布局对城市的规模和空间结构分布具有重大影响 ,同样它作为重要的基础设施和对外交流通道对城市的发展方向也起着重大的引导作用。本文通过对道路交通的研究 ,揭示了城市的演变规律和发展趋势。     

高等职业院校信息化建设的几点思考

通过对高等职业院校信息化建设中存在的一些问题进行分析,提出了职业院校信息化建设过程可能存在的问题、并提出解决方案。     

反腐败之"高薪养廉"对策辨误

“高薪养廉”是很多人极力推崇的对策之一，无论是从理论上还是实践上看，“高薪养廉”都不适合中国国情，不能从根本上解决腐败问题。腐败问题的解决是一项系统工程。