The dynamics of moonlighting in Russia1

This paper uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to analyse the dynamics of moonlighting by the working‐age population. We find that moonlighting is transitory and that a desire to switch jobs expressed in the past is positively related to moonlighting in the present and to actual job changes in the future. We also find that workers who moonlighted as self‐employed in the past represent 26.5 percent of the new self‐employed. These results suggest that moonlighting in Russia can be seen as an effective incubator for setting up new self‐employed businesses, thereby providing long‐term benefits for the economy.     

Static and dynamic efficiency of pollution control strategies

A great deal of the economic literature on pollution control strategies concentrates on the efficiency of environmental policy instruments. Most analytical studies in this field show that market instruments are more efficient with respect to the cost of pollution abatement of a given number of polluters than non-market instruments. According to several analytical studies, market instruments should also be more efficient with respect to innovation in pollution abatement equipment than non-market instruments. In the empirical literature a great number of case studies exist with estimations of the savings of abatement costs of market instruments in a situation without technological progress. Empirical studies about the impact of environmental policy market instruments on the abatement costs in situations with technological progress are lacking.The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap. The paper deals with an empirical estimation of abatement costs for the emission of SO₂ of coal-fired electricity units in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2000. First, the working of market instruments and non-market instruments (the existing environmental policy of the Dutch government) is simulated in a static situation. Second, we analyse the learning effects of flue gas desulphurization. The efficiency advantage of market instruments turns out to be larger in a situation of technological progress than in a static situation.     

茶产业发达地区茶农选择茶叶销售渠道的影响因素分析——基于福建安溪实证

以福建省安溪县茶农问卷调查数据为基础,利用二项Logistic模型对茶农选择茶叶销售渠道的影响因素进行计量分析。研究表明,茶农户主特征的年龄对茶农选择渠道的影响不显著;茶农户主是否是村干部对茶农自家开茶叶店有显著影响;茶农是否参加茶业合作组织对茶农选择茶业合作组织影响显著;茶叶收入占家庭收入的比重0~25%、26%~50%对茶农自家开茶叶店有显著影响,51%~75%对茶农选择茶叶经销商影响显著;农户到最近茶叶交易市场的距离≤3 km,对茶农选择茶叶经销商和茶叶批发市场这2个渠道影响显著。     

从无锡看区域性网上商店的经营策略

网上商店在经营中普遍遇到了商品交易数量少、无传统资源支撑及高成本运作等困难,区域性网上商店要发展必须对其本身有一个战略的认识,并能解决好成本控制问题。对于区域性网上商店,除了要提供价格优惠的商品外,还应该坚持本地化发展,坚持地域性和业务性联合,并采用商品价格依据配送时限而定的物流配送体系,从而有效降低配送成本,最终实现区域性网上商店从生存到发展的目的。     

一种新的尝试:利用JXTA P2P技术搭建自主计算平台

自主计算的目标是为了简化日益繁杂的IT设施管理,从而降低成本、提升效率。本文分析了自主计算的基本特点和需求,结合P2P计算的特性,以P2P的角度重新审视构建自主计算全局架构的方法,阐述了用JXTA实现自主计算自主管理器的思想。     

Beyond Flying Geese: The Expansion of East Asia's Electronics Trade

The flying geese (FG) hypothesis, which asserts the sequential catching‐up processes of the latecomers, holds well in the past. Yet a simultaneous boom within the electronics industry across East Asia casts doubt on the applicability of the hypothesis. By using the RCA and NET indices, the paper finds that the FG pattern shows in the electronics industry as a whole, but not always so at the disaggregated level. This suggests that the FG formation may not appear in other industries, if they are involved in international production fragmentation or have differentiated products, and if certain latecomers have become new leaders.     

THE LAST MILE: AN EXAMINATION OF EFFECTS OF ONLINE RETAIL DELIVERY STRATEGIES ON CONSUMERS

The Internet has increased the level of importance of the end‐consumer market to transportation carriers. In two between subject experiments, carrier disclosure on retail merchant websites is examined as a strategic differentiation strategy. Predictions are offered concerning effects of carrier disclosure strategies on product delivery‐related expectations, consumer attitudes, and intentions to purchase a product online. Results from Study 1 reveal significant differences between disclosure and nondisclosure of the carrier for numerous product delivery‐related variables, as well as many differences between the six carriers examined in this first study. Study 2 extends these findings by showing that providing consumers with a choice of carrier leads to increased levels of satisfaction with the online experience and greater willingness to buy, relative to nondisclosure and disclosure strategies.     

Orange County Bankruptcy: Financial Contagion in the Municipal Bond and Bank Equity Markets

We examine the spillover wealth effects of the Orange County, California bankruptcy announcement in December 1994 on municipal bonds, municipal bond funds, and bank stocks. This bankruptcy is prominent because of unprecedented losses and because it was caused by a highly leveraged derivatives strategy rather than a shortage of tax revenues and excess spending. We find contagion in the bond market with significantly negative abnormal returns for municipal bond funds without direct exposure to Orange County and for non‐Orange County municipal bonds. In addition, our findings suggest the contagion spills over to the common stocks of investment and commercial banks that deal in or use derivatives; however, the equities of banks unexposed to derivatives are not affected.     

构建高职计算机专业实践教学的信息化平台

构建实践教学信息化平台是解决高职实践教学中存在问题、提高教学质量和效率的有效方法。该文以一个信息化平台设计实例说明了信息化平台的设计过程。     

How are China''s state-owned enterprises doing in the 1990s? Evidence from three interior provinces

Since its inception in the early 1980s, the success of China's enterprise reforms remains hotly debated. This paper introduces a new element into the analysis of state-owned enterprise performance by drawing on the recent increase in inter-regional income disparities. It is argued that as a result of less favourable structural conditions and stronger fiscal dependence on the central government, reform implementation in the interior provinces has lagged behind the progress made along the coast. This hypothesis is investigated using enterprise survey data from three interior provinces which is compared to a similar survey carried out earlier in four coastal cities. The evidence generally supports the view of larger administrative restrictions in the interior and relatively poor economic performance.