Income and substitution effects of fiscal policy on work effort

The focus of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the impact on work effort of changes in government purchases financed with lump‐sum taxes, in a neoclassical framework, with respect to four industrialised countries. Second, it reconsiders the expenditure–work effort relationship in a broader conceptual context that allows for distortionary taxation and a disaggregation of the income and substitution effects. Our findings are shown to cast doubt on the empirical plausibility of the prevailing (neoclassical and New Keynesian) models which seem to rely heavily on the lump‐sum tax notion, thus ignoring the substitution effects of distortionary taxation.     

美国深空网的同波束干涉测量技术

讨论了美国NASA深空网(DSN)对深空飞船所采用的同波束干涉(SBI)技术概念和测量原理，并介绍了这一技术的应用和发展情况。     

我国独资企业法律制度缺陷与完善设想

我国于1999年通过《个人独资企业法》，该法颁布后并未出现人们期待的个人独资企业迅猛发展的现象。虽然有诸多原因，但个人独资企业法律制度自身规定的不完善应是主要原因。因此完善该制度就成了一种现实的选择。     

湖南省休闲农业发展战略研究

湖南具有丰富的乡村景观资源,较为优越的区位交通条件。该文在调查的基础上,分析了湖南休闲农业的现状,找出了湖南休闲农业存在的问题,提出了湖南休闲农业发展目标及战略重点:长株潭经济发展区重点发展以农业科技主题园和参与、体验性强的休闲景观群,结合农业产业带,发展特色休闲农业;湘中南区重点发展丘陵生态观光农业、风景区观光农业和农耕文化休闲农业;环洞庭湖区重点发展水乡特色的农渔风光等特色体验休闲农业,建设观光、保护等于一体的湿地休闲基地;湘西山区大力发展森林生态休闲,大力发展和挖掘民俗风情,体验民俗文化。     

Choice of Distribution System in the New Zealand Life Insurance Industry

Using 1988–93 panel data drawn from the New Zealand life insurance industry, this paper examines empirically the notion that the choice of distribution system is an efficient contracting solution to incentive conflicts between owners, managers and sales agents in life insurance firms. Consistent with what was hypothesised, the empirical results suggest that choice of distribution system is distinguished by organisational form, firm size, and sales commission. However, contrary to expectations, the variables representing product diversity and asset specificity were found not to be statistically significant. The empirical results thus lend mixed support for prior predictions.     

Efficient Liability Rules: Complete Characterization

Received May, 18, 2000; revised version received March, 19, 2001     

股权分置与中国上市公司多元化经营

本文剔除了上市公司中的相关多元化企业，以非多元化企业和不相关多元化企业为样本，区分了上市公司是否选择多元化经营战略和多元化上市公司具体选择多高的多元化程度两种情况．分别运用Logit模型和多元线性回归模型考察了股权分置对中国上市公司多元化经营的影响。实证分析结果表明，在控制了企业所处的行业、企业规模、技术水平和负债水平等因素后．股权分置对上市公司是否选择多元化经营以及对多元化上市公司多元化程度的选择均有显著影响。     

铅锌冶炼企业的购并决策

文章重点讨论铅锌冶炼企业的购并决策问题。购并决策是一个过程,它包括对企业自身特点的了解,目标企业的选择、决策等问题。     

Reporting Performance: Comprehensive Income and its Components

The underlying question raised in this article is: why is the accounting profession's conceptual framework (CF) so authoritative when it is conceptually incoherent? A supplementary question is how can ‘conceptually robust’ accounting standards be derived from an incoherent framework? This article draws on Page and Spira's (1999) contrasting framework metaphors to suggest that the appearance of conceptual robustness is more important than the reality, and illustrates the point with the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB’s) progress report on its reporting performance project. Some inherent weaknesses in the move towards internationally enforceable financial regulations have been acknowledged, but this article suggests the IASB's project demonstrates two additional weaknesses: internal incoherence, and the potential for political ends to drive supposedly technical regulations.     

Additive and Multiplicative Uncertainty Revisited: What Explains the Contrasting Biases?

above the certainty level while for additive uncertainty the price should be lower than the certainty level. This note gives an intuitive explanation for the result after first presenting a parsimonious review of the two models. We also discuss which, if either, of the two models is more realistic. Received December 14, 2001; revised version received July 16, 2002 Published online: April 30, 2003 We thank referees for helpful comments. Ciaran Driver would like to acknowledge the research facilities from ANU, Canberra for their help in writing this paper.