Discrimination in Employment Provisions in the Mexican Federal Labor Law

The discrimination in employment provisions in employment provisions in the Mexican Federal Labor Law (FLL) are surveyed in a general overview. Employment discrimination in Mexico under the FLL is generally proscribed but is mandated in a limited number of instances. Discriminatory violations can induce various sanctions against transgressing Mexican employers.     

Democracy and Growth: Alternative Approaches

This article focuses on two previously unexamined aspects of the relationship between economic growth and democracy. First, the growth experiences of countries that experience significant changes in democracy are examined directly. Countries that democratize are found to grow faster than a priori similar countries, while countries that become less democratic grow more slowly than comparable countries. These differences do not seem to be due to differences in education or investment levels. Second, regression tree analysis suggests that democracy, along with initial income and literacy, contributes to the identification of regimes of countries facing similar aggregate production functions.     

欧盟证券强制要约收购规则及启示

本文以2004年5月20日生效的《欧盟要约收购指令》为基础，对欧盟及其各成员国有关强制要约收购的临界点、强制要约收购的价格以及强制要约收购的豁免制度进行了重点分析，对如何完善我国上市公司强制要约收购制度作了探讨。该指令的研究对完善我国证券法律制度具有重要的现实意义。     

《广告法 》上的"广告"——兼论《广告法》之修改和完善

以《广告法》上的"广告"为视点展开分析和论证,具有同时评判现行广告法制之各种制度设计的功能和价值。通过对《广告法》上的"广告"的诸要素的分析,以及对《广告法》所列举之违法商业广告的类型化梳理,有助于我们在深刻把握作为《广告法》规制对象的"广告"的真实内涵的基础上,全面评判《广告法》对"广告"之规制现状,进而为《广告法》的修改和完善提供参考与借鉴。     

日本发展循环经济主体责任论

循环经济是谋求可持续发展的经济模式。20世纪70年代以来,日本政府把推动循环经济发展,建立循环社会作为日本经济增长的主要模式,取得了良好的经济效益和社会效益。日本政府治理环境污染的基本手段是立法,而在推动循环经济的各种法律中起主导作用的是《日本循环经济社会推进基本法》,该法分别明确了国家、地方公共团体(地方政府)、企业与公民个人的责任,其责任的分担与协作解决了环保与发展经济之间的矛盾。这个方法值得我国借鉴。     

商标法第三次修订的若干思考

商标法对保护市场经济的有序发展发挥着巨大作用,与人们的生活息息相关。现行商标法已不能满足商品经济的发展。修订商标法应保留相对理由审查制度,应加大对恶意行为人的处罚,驰名商标标准应增加商品质量优异和良好售后服务的内容。     

我国外汇储备增长与人民币升值关系的实证分析

本文利用我国2005年7月-2007年6月的月度数据，通过协整分析、误差修正模型和格兰杰因果检验对外汇储备增长与人民币升值之间的关系进行了实证研究。结果表明，汇率形成机制改革对于释放两者之间弹性，维持缓和的、相互促进的长期稳定均衡关系起到显著的效果，继续稳步推进人民币汇率市场化改革将是明智之举。     

从草根版《学生教育惩戒法》解析教师惩戒权

一部草根版《学生教育惩戒法》反映了当前教师惩戒现状,进而解析教师惩戒权逐步消解的原因,探讨如何正视、解决教师惩戒的两难局面,以有效规避教育中惩戒过度与惩戒消解现象。     

Into the Mussa puzzle: monetary policy regimes and the real exchange rate in a small open economy

Industrial countries moving from fixed to floating exchange rate regimes experience dramatic rises in the variability of the real exchange rate. This evidence, forcefully documented by Mussa [Nominal exchange regimes and the behavior of real exchange rates: evidence and implications. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 25 (1986) 117], is a puzzle because it is hard to reconcile with the assumption of flexible prices. This paper lays out a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy that combines nominal price rigidity with a systematic behavior of monetary policy able to approximate a continuum of exchange rate regimes. A version of the model with complete exchange rate pass-through is broadly consistent with Mussa’s findings. Most importantly, this holds independently of the underlying source of fluctuations in the economy, stressing the role of the nominal exchange rate regime per se in affecting the variability of the real exchange rate. However, only a model featuring incomplete exchange rate pass-through can account for a broader range of exchange rate statistics. Finally there exist ranges of values for either the degree of openness or the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign goods for which the baseline model is also consistent with the empirical insensitivity of output volatility to the type of exchange rate regime, as documented by Baxter and Stockman [Journal of Monetary Economics 23 (1989) 377].     

Market integration and convergence to the Law of One Price: evidence from the European car market

This paper exploits the unique case of European market integration to investigate the relationship between integration and price convergence in international markets. Using a panel data set of car prices, we examine how the process of integration has affected cross-country price dispersion in Europe. We find surprisingly strong evidence of convergence towards both the absolute and the relative versions of the Law of One Price (LOOP). Our analysis illuminates the main sources of segmentation in international markets and suggests the type of institutional changes that can successfully reduce it.