Foreign direct investment and inequality: Evidence from China's policy change

In this paper, we examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local urban inequality in China. Specifically, we consider the FDI policy change as an exogenous shock on the local labour markets. We find that cities that have experienced a bigger policy change in promoting FDI between 1997 and 2002 are significantly more unequal in 2005. This pattern is mainly driven by the positive association between FDI liberalisation and skill premia. The result holds after we control for other policy changes, such as privatisation of state-owned enterprises, infrastructure and trade liberalisation. We then turn to investigate the mechanisms using firm and individual-level information. Our firm-level evidence shows that FDI firms not only hire relatively more high-skilled workers but also provide relatively higher wages to high-skilled workers compared to domestic firms. Moreover, the individual-level analysis shows that FDI has a significantly positive spillover effect on wages received by skilled workers employed by state-owned enterprises, but not wages of unskilled workers.     

行政审批改革与制度性交易成本——基于效率评价的视角

制度性交易成本是经济主体为遵守制度规定而产生的非生产性成本,行政审批改革通过提高经营效率、节约时间成本、降低资金成本和促进行业竞争四种途径降低制度性交易成本。本文通过对我国地市级面板数据的实证分析后发现,行政审批改革可以有效降低地区制度性交易成本;当行政审批改革发生在营商环境相对较差的中西部城市、距离省会城市较近的城市以及当城市获得法律支撑时,能够更显著地降低当地制度性交易成本。本文据此提出如下政策建议:深化行政审批改革,减少不必要的审批事项;健全改革激励机制,确保政策的贯彻与落实;通过机构设置、法律规定、权责划分等进行配套措施改革。     

江苏省科技金融发展现状与对策分析

科技金融是一个互动的概念,科技金融的发展是以保持经济高速持续增长为目的。在当前以建设创新型国家为总体战略的目标之下,科技与金融的有机结合还存在着一些问题。在研究和调查了近年来江苏省科技金融的发展现状之后,提出存在的问题及解决途径。     

金融产业集聚对制造业转型升级的影响研究——基于省际面板数据的中介效应检验

本文运用中国2013—2016年的省际面板数据，引入社会融资规模、R&D经费投入两个中介变量，构建中介效应模型来考察金融产业集聚对制造业转型升级的直接效应和间接效应。研究结果表明，金融产业集聚不仅对制造业转型升级起到直接促进效应，而且分别通过以下两种路径方式对制造业转型升级产生一定的正向促进效应，即“金融产业集聚→社会融资规模增量→制造业转型升级”和“金融产业集聚→社会融资规模增量→R&D投入→制造业转型升级”。因此，进一步汇聚金融产业资源、扩大资本规模、支持科技创新，将有效促进中国制造业转型升级。     

Targeted information and limited attention

We examine the implications of limited consumer attention for the targeting decisions of competing firms. Limited attention alters the strategic role of information provision as firms may become incentivized to behave as mass advertisers, despite perfect targeting abilities. We analyze the consequences of limited attention for targeting, strategic pricing, market shares, attention competition between firms, and the value of marketing data to firms. Accounting for limited attention in an otherwise standard targeting framework can explain several recent key issues from the advertising industry, such as consumer-side information overload or the increased usage of ad blocking tools.     

产业转型升级示范区高质量发展的大数据分析

2017、2019年,国家发展改革委、科技部、工业和信息化部、自然资源部、国家开发银行在全国分两批遴选创设了20个产业转型升级示范区。以第一批12个示范区为对象,通过社会媒体报道和地方政府工作报告大数据分析,研究其在探索传统产业改造、新兴产业发展、绿色发展、园区建设、产业集聚、以及优化营商环境、融入国家战略、加强区域协作等方面的建设成效和典型经验,可以发现,推动国家产业转型升级示范区高质量发展,应因地制宜谋划示范区发展定位,依据功能定位实施差异化产业战略,进一步完善示范区评估考核指标体系,充分发挥中央预算内投资激励导向作用。     

Azéma martingales for Bessel and CIR processes and the pricing of Parisian zero‐coupon bonds

In this paper, we study the excursions of Bessel and Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) processes with dimensions . We obtain densities for the last passage times and meanders of the processes. Using these results, we prove a variation of the Azéma martingale for the Bessel and CIR processes based on excursion theory. Furthermore, we study their Parisian excursions, and generalize previous results on the Parisian stopping time of Brownian motion to that of the Bessel and CIR processes. We obtain explicit formulas and asymptotic results for the densities of the Parisian stopping times, and develop exact simulation algorithms to sample the Parisian stopping times of Bessel and CIR processes. We introduce a new type of bond, the zero‐coupon Parisian bond. The buyer of such a bond is betting against zero interest rates, while the seller is effectively hedging against a period where interest rates fluctuate around 0. Using our results, we propose two methods for pricing these bonds and provide numerical examples.     

中国特色经济发展模式的逻辑演化与多元特征

改革开放以来经济的快速发展显示出中国发展模式具有强大的生命力和独特性,其结构演化与创新需要系统地进行研究,同西方资本主义发展的典型模式相比呈现明显的差异,值得新兴经济体和发展中国家借鉴。在系统评述现有研究文献的基础上,文章阐明了中国特色经济发展模式的内在本质和演化逻辑,并围绕构成经济体制和经济运行的维度提炼和总结了中国特色的混合经济模式、中央集权与地方分权模式、新型工业化与城镇化模式、多元要素供给与综合优势模式和渐进式全方位开放经济模式,以此清晰勾勒出中国经济发展模式的鲜明特色和独特竞争力,澄清了一些西方学者及各界对中国发展模式的误判与否定。