Firm-level interactions between exporting and productivity: Industry-specific evidence

This paper investigates interactions between exporting and productivity at the firm level, using a panel of firms in the UK chemical industry. This is both highly technology intensive and the UK’s largest exporting sector. We find exporters are more productive than non-exporters, but are also on average smaller. This superior productivity performance among exporters appears to be caused by both self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects. In contrast to other studies, we find learning effects are significantly positive among new entrants, weaker for more experienced exporters and negative for established exporters. JEL no. F14, D21, L65     

有的放矢 打造“一强三优”

国家电网公司确立了电网坚强、资产优良、服务优质、业绩优秀的战略目标,以及抓发展、抓管理、抓队伍、创一流的工作思路。结合四川省情和公司实际,针对突出问题,抓住主要矛盾,采取积极措施加快实施“一强三优”战略,以促进公司改革与发展的顺利进行,实为当务之急。以战略为先确立科学合理的发展战略,这是在市场竞争中求得生存和发展的必然要求,也是加快公司改革与发展的前提。根据国家电网公司“一强三优”的战略目标,四川省公司应根据自己的实际,尽快确立建设一个“电网坚强、资产优良、服务优质、业绩优秀”的现代省级电力公司的基本思路…     

Finding Pareto Optimal Insurance Contracts

This paper deals with on-line computation—or step-wise learning—of Pareto optimal insurance contracts. Our approach tolerates that the loss distribution might be unknown, intractable, or not well specified. Thus we accommodate fairly inexperienced parties. Losses are here simulated or observed, one at a time, and they cause iterated revisions of the premium. The mechanical and global nature of probability calculus thereby yields to more tentative, myopic procedures, possibly closer to how humans operate or reason in face of risk. Sequential revisions may also reduce the expense of insurers' time and money in seeking sufficient statistics. Emphasized below is the remarkable simplicity and stability of the resulting adaptive procedures. Special attention goes to catastrophic risks, and to subsidized or competitive insurance.     

WPS在处理质检办公文件中的合理使用

通过ＷＰＳ汉字编辑软件在处理质检办公文件的合理应用，提出了使用ＷＰＳ某些功能键的技巧，可使文件处理更规范，更完整。     

计轴自动站间闭塞及调度集中设备的行车组织对策建议

介绍了计轴自动站间闭塞和调度集中设备概况,针对这些技术设备在青藏铁路哈尔盖—格尔木间的应用,论述了相应的行车组织对策,并根据目前的有关规章要求,对计轴自动站间闭塞方式和调度集中作业提出了应进一步研究和探讨的问题。     

An empirical analysis of the relationship between the hedge ratio and hedging horizon: A simultaneous estimation of the short‐ and long‐run hedge ratios

This article analyzes the effects of the length of hedging horizon on the optimal hedge ratio and hedging effectiveness using 9 different hedging horizons and 25 different commodities. We discuss the concept of short‐ and long‐run hedge ratios and propose a technique to simultaneously estimate them. The empirical results indicate that the short‐run hedge ratios are significantly less than 1 and increase with the length of hedging horizon. We also find that hedging effectiveness increases with the length of hedging horizon. However, the long‐run hedge ratio is found to be close to the naïve hedge ratio of unity. This implies that, if the hedging horizon is long, then the naïve hedge ratio is close to the optimum hedge ratio. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 24:359–386, 2004