Utility Regulation and Risk Allocation: The Roles of Marginal Cost Pricing and Futures Markets

The effects on consumer welfare of requiring a utility facing cost or demand risk to use either a fixed retail price or marginal cost pricing are assessed. With marginal cost pricing and cost volatility an efficient futures market allows consumer welfare to be at least as high in every state as with the fixed price. With demand risk marginal cost pricing can benefit the consumer in every state without harming the firm if the profit difference is transferred to the consumer. A futures market can act as a partial replacement for the transfer.     

Price-Cap Regulation and Inefficiency in Relative Pricing

The allocative efficiency properties of three price-cap schemes are compared. The scheme that uses lagged quantities in the price index and has a fixed cap works well when the firm is myopic but generates inefficient relative prices otherwise. With myopia prices are efficient and welfare is higher than with equal pricing, but the gain to the firm comes at the expense of lower consumer surplus. When the firm is not myopic pricing can be so inefficient that steady-state welfare is below the no-regulation level.     

论强制性环境治理制度的实施效率

In the eco-environmental governance system,the compul-sive institutions are the most important as well as the mostcommonly utilized.A nation utilizes its administrative,lawand economic power to forbid,boost,bestir and help indi-viduals’behavior concerning environmental governance toensure the realization of eco-environment conservation.The fact,however,turns out to be disappointing about theimpulsive institution’s implementation.Actually,the unsatis-factory practices sometimes even lead to“…     

地区专业化的度量

在封闭经济假设和地区间需求结构一致假设下,本文构造了地区专业化的度量指标——地区专业化系数;这一度量指标更具一般性,产业结构差异系数、空间分布差异系数、绝对利差及行业分工指数等指标只是作为它的特例而存在。在讨论地区专业化问题时,如果忽略地区的(或行业的)相对规模因素,除了犯有逻辑推理错误外,在实践中还存在着可能得出错误判断的倾向。本文发现:中国工业的地区专业化水平自20世纪80年代中后期以来有了较大程度的提高;如果忽略地区的(或行业的)相对规模因素来讨论中国工业的地区专业化问题,则会高估中国工业的地区专业化水平。     

岷江上游生态重建的模式

本文在分析岷江上游干旱河谷区生态环境问题的基础上，阐述了该区生态退化是脆弱的自然生态环境和人类的不合理经济营活动综合作用的结果，指出生态恢复与重建必须与经济建设紧密结合，走生态经济发展之路，将岷江上游干温河谷区划分为干旱河谷粮果林生态我，中山，亚高山林药菌生态林业区，高山灌丛草甸，草甸生态特业区，并提出了不同的生态经济类型区的生态恢复与重建模式，最后，论述了生态恢复与重建的工程措施，生物措施及管理措施。     

中国农业发展:多重困境与突破路径

作为新农村建设顺利推进的经济基础和逻辑起点,农业发展主要表现为农业增产基础上的农民增收.由于增产和增收、宏观战略和微观目标不一致,在理论和经验上表现出多重困境:主体形成困境、结构调整困境、谈判能力困境和生产效率困境,农业发展的基础不稳定也不牢靠.基于此,将家庭联产承包责任制转变为以家庭专业承包责任制为基本特征的组织创新将至关重要,这个组织演化过程是对农业发展多重困境的一个系统的、积极的回应.     

Hitting the Jackpot or Hitting the Skids: Entertainment, Poverty, and the Demand for State Lotteries

A bstract .   State-sponsored lotteries are a lucrative source of revenue. Despite their low payout rates, lotteries are extremely popular, particularly among low-income citizens. State officials laud the benefits of lottery proceeds and promote the fun and excitement of participation. This entertainment value is one explanation for lottery demand by the poor: individuals with lower incomes substitute lottery play for other entertainment. Alternatively, low-income consumers may view lotteries as a convenient and otherwise rare opportunity for radically improving their standard of living. Bad times may cause desperation, and the desperate may turn to lotteries in an effort to escape hardship. This study tests these competing explanations. We examine lottery sales data from 39 states over 10 years and find a strong and positive relationship between sales and poverty rates. In contrast, we find no relationship between movie ticket sales, another inexpensive form of entertainment, and poverty rates.     

企业、政府与产业结构升级

内容当前我国正处于工业化过程中的中级阶段向高级阶段转变的时期,在这一时期,产业结构升级是我国新一轮经济结构调整的主要任务之一。产业结构升级涉及政府和企业等多方面,究竟是政府还是企业在产业结构升级进程中起主导作用,笔者通过分析试图回答这个问题。     

零售业上市公司业绩的DEA有效性分析

本文应用DEA模型对零售业上市公司的业绩进行了实证研究,通过DEA有效分析和规模收益分析对八家上市公司的业绩进行了效率衡量,为投资者理性投资提供了参考依据,也为上市公司提高效率提供了数据借鉴。     

分工差异与二元经济结构的形成

分工程度包含着部门因组织方式不同而导致的生产率差异,它可以为二元经济结构对立提供一个分析起点。本文构建了一个逐次放松条件的新兴古典经济学模型,从分工角度解释二元经济结构的形成。模型显示:二元经济结构反差源于部门个人专业化水平、迂回生产程度和产品种类数的不同,二元经济结构是两部门分工水平差异的产物,此判断得到了实证分析的支持。从分工角度出发,可以对中国二元经济结构问题形成更深刻的理解。