WTO与西部大开发战略的几个问题

中国加入WTO后，西部大开发战略的许多问题亟须在理论上深化，比如：西部大开发战略在中国加入WTO的前后是否有所不同，西部大开发的根本目标和实质会发生什么变化，东西部地区之间的差距会不会进一步扩大，西部开发的手段主要有哪些，西部地区能不能接替东南沿海地区淘汰的资本密集型和劳动密集型的产业，等等。     

入世三年来我国农产品贸易发展态势分析

加入世界贸易组织三年来，我国全面履行了农产品国际贸易方面的入世承诺，农产品的进出口都得到了迅速的发展，取得了良好的成绩。通过分析入世以来我国农产品贸易的发展状况、面临的问题和发展趋势，提出未来我国农产品贸易发展的应对策略，以利于我国经济更加健康地融入世界经济。     

论贸易政策合理性的评价标准及反倾销的不合理性

目前，国内学界对反倾销的合理性问题存在着激烈的争论。合理性问题是一个评价问题，合理性评价的前提是合理性的评价标准。国内学界在对反倾销合理性问题进行争论的时候忽略了这一前提，即没有给反倾销合理性确定一个比较明确的评价标准，这就使这种评价失去了依据。文章从合理性的含义出发，提出了贸易政策是否具有合理性的三个评价标准，并在此基础上对反倾销的不合理性进行了分析和探讨。     

对外开放与对内开放的协同机制研究——以党的十八大以来区域协调发展战略为例

协调好对外开放和对内开放的关系,是贯彻新发展理念、建设现代化经济体系的题中之义。对外开放与对内开放的协同机制,是从区域空间布局和区域产业结构两个层面展开的。文章梳理了党的十八大以来实施的区域协调发展战略,结合以“一带一路”倡议为引领的对外开放战略,对产业全球化资源配置活动进行了分析,把区域空间布局调整与产业结构跨国调整贯通起来,刻画了对外开放与对内开放协同的内在机理。从区域协同机制来看,要建设基础条件好的开发区、自贸区、经济带,作为对外开放和对内开放协同发展的重要载体,东、中、西部地区应配合对外开放的整体布局有意识地进行梯度开放。从产业协同机制来看,对于不同类型的产业应分别采取资源占优型协同合作机制、成本占优型协同合作机制、要素融合型协同合作机制、创新引领型协同合作机制。     

农村脱贫人口返贫的阻断机制研究

随着我国扶贫的伟大胜利,返贫问题成为新的关注点。针对返贫现象形成的原因、阻断机制和对应建议,论文采用观察和深度访谈的方法对湖南一些扶贫地区展开了调查研究。研究发现,造成返贫的原因主要有四个方面:自然环境、重大疾病、文化程度和思想桎梏。论文提出其阻断机制为:建立灾害预警和应急系统、建立针对性的健康库、组织乡村培训和展开科普教育。论文对国家、地方政府和农村脱贫后的发展提出了一些建议。     

Does the social security fund help non-financial enterprises to transform from the virtual to the real?

At its 19th National Congress, the Communist Party of China vowed to “strengthen the financial sector’s ability to serve the real economy.” However, many studies provide evidence of the opposite trend, a problematic “transition from the real to the virtual,” among Chinese enterprises. Meanwhile, the investment efficiency of China’s Social Security Fund (SSF), a public fund, attracts much attention. In this context, we use A-share listed companies in China from 2009 to 2018 to study the relationship between holding by the SSF and enterprise financialization. We find that SSF holding significantly inhibits financialization and that this effect is non-linear. Mechanism analysis indicates that SSF holding suppresses enterprises’ financialization mainly by improving their governance. Moreover, SSF holding more strongly inhibits small-scale (vs. large-scale), state-owned (vs. non-state-owned), and non-eastern (vs. eastern) enterprises in China. Furthermore, SSF holding can alleviate corporate value impairment caused by financialization. The conclusions enrich theoretical research and provide empirical evidence that may help regulatory authorities to guide investment by enterprises and prevent financial risks.     

Do we really care about Biodiversity?

This paper addresses from an economic perspective the issue of global biodiversity conservation. It challenges the perception that the world really cares a great deal about biodiversity and is prepared to pay the full cost of maintaining this stock of natural capital. Despite the existence of a plethora of international agreements there still seems to be a global ‘deficit of care’ surrounding efforts to combat challenges such as those posed by global warming and biodiversity conservation. More light can be thrown on the degree of care by measuring both the actual expenditures and the stated willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation. However, actual expenditures are much lower than willingness to pay estimates recorded in the published literature. Using the criteria that the ‘right’ amount of conservation effort is one where the marginal economic benefits from conservation just equal the marginal costs of conservation, the paper explores the biodiversity conservation conundrum and concluded that, on the available evidence, the world does not care too much about this natural capital stock and bequests to future generations. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Dimensions of quality upgrading

The impact of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies’ trade integration with European markets on CEE trade structures has been studied extensively. These studies frequently observe a quality upgrading of CEE exports. In this paper we consider three dimensions of quality upgrading: upgrading across industries, upgrading across different quality segments within industries and, finally, product upgrading within quality segments inside industries. For the analysis we partition industries into quality segments based on EU‐15 import unit values. The results for ten CEE countries (comprising the CEE‐5, the Baltics and South East Europe) and thirteen industries suggest fundamental differences, both across country groups and across the three different notions of quality upgrading. The CEE‐5 show no evidence of entering a ‘low‐quality trap’ in all three dimensions. By contrast, while there is a general catching‐up process across industries and inside quality segments, the second notion of low‐quality specialization may be applicable within the high‐tech industries to the performance for the Baltics and South East Europe as a group.     

加入WTO后科技型中小企业技术创新战略调整

随着中国加入WTO，科技型中小企业直接面临国外企业的竞争和挑战，国家对技术创新的支持政策也受到WTO相关规则的冲击。本文从加入WTO后我国科技型中小企业创新环境的变化，在分析我国科技中小企业的发展现状和技术创新优劣比较的基础,上根据WTO相关规则和现状，提出我国科技型中小企业入世后技术创新战略调整的应对之策略。     

Costly pollution abatement, competitiveness and plant location decisions

The NAFTA debate included assertions that were used as arguments against trade and investment liberalization. (1) Trade liberalization increases production sensitivity to environmental restrictions (‘environmental dumping’?). (2) Investment liberalization, leading to multinational firms, similarly increases the production and welfare response to costly environmental restrictions. I find that: (1) Trade liberalization increases production sensitivity to costly environmental restrictions, but arguments against liberal trade on welfare grounds do not follow. (2) Multinationals do not increase the production-reallocation effect caused by environmental restrictions or regulations. In addition, I find a great difference between restrictions that fall on fixed costs and restrictions that fall on marginal costs.