Collaboration, peer review and open source software

Open source software development may be superior to proprietary development because the open source organizational form naturally minimizes transactions costs associated with privately distributed information. This manifests itself in the ability of open source communities to encourage critical peer review and the sharing of ideas. When these activities are important, the open source organizational form may do better than a proprietary organizational form. My results suggest why open source is particularly powerful when maintainability of software is critical, and also suggest that the founder of a software project may be more likely to choose open source if there is an existing dominant proprietary software project.     

Multinational firms, international trade and international telecommunications

The study analyses the determinants of international telephone, telex, telegram and leased lines communication between the United States and 46 countries. It focusses on the role of multinational firms, international trading firms and new information technologies within the framework of the theory of transaction costs.Results of the econometric estimates suggest that: (a) technological conditions of telecommunication infrastructure, i.e., international diffusion lags of new information technologies, play an important role in the explanation of international telephone and telex telecommunication flows but not in the demand for telegraph and leased lines, (b) multinational firms use international telecommunication to reduce the coordination costs and are strong customers of leased lines and telephones, but less so of telex and telegrams, (c) international trading firms exhibit less clear preferences in the use of the different media to reduce transaction costs.     

降低电网企业垄断程度的改革策略分析

电网一般认为是自然垄断经营的.降低电网垄断经营的主要手段之一是输配分开.输配分开是我国电力体制改革存在争议的热点问题,具有较高的改革成本和风险.分析了自然垄断行业的模拟竞争,提出模拟竞争是在自然垄断行业引入竞争的主要方式;通过总结分析国外改革情况,提出输配分开并不是电力改革的必然选择;全面分析了输配分开的改革成本和改革风险,如输配电界限的动态变化、降低电网经营的规模效益等,指出了输配分开的改革成本和改革风险;最后分析了输配分开的期望效益.     

Comparing Environmental Policy Instruments in the Presence of Imperfect Compliance – A Case Study

In this paper, we aim to include rule making, implementation, monitoring and enforcement costs into the cost comparison of policy instruments. We use a simple partial equilibrium model and apply it to the textile industry. The model includes discrete abatement functions and costly monitoring and enforcement. The case study uses individual firm data to simulate the differences in abatement costs and compliance decisions between firms. We compare combinations of regulatory instruments (emission taxes, emission standards and technology standards) and enforcement instruments (criminal fines, civil fines and transaction offers). We show that the inclusion of information, monitoring and enforcement costs indeed alters the relative cost efficiency of the different instruments.     

公共产品供给主体及边界确定的交易费用经济学分析——兼论我国公共产品供给过程中交易费用的计量

将新制度经济学中交易费用理论引入公共产品供给分析,给出了供给公共产品的主体确定的理论模型,并在威廉姆森范式扩展的基础上得出了各个主体的边界,认为最优公共产品供给方式的选择和主体边界的确定,取决于公共产品供给过程中发生的交易费用.测算了中国公私部门供给公共产品过程中存在的交易费用,发现就我国公共产品的供给而言,在一定的条件下将公共产品供给由政府部门交给私人部门与第三部门可以节约交易费用,提高公共产品供给的效率.     

基于顾客满意的企业供应链创新设计

重点分析了供应链物流服务与提高顾客满意度的关系，明确了提高顾客满意度的供应链物流服务要素，提出了基于提高顾客满意度的企业供应链设计思路，并给出了基于供应链物流服务的企业利益创造模型。     

基于CRM理念的企业电子商务实施

通过CRM理念指导企业电子商务实施，帮助企业建立更加完善的客户关系，提高客户满意度，进而提高企业核心竞争力。本文从CRM理念和CRM软件两方面阐述CRM理论并分析电子商务与CRM之间的关系。研究如何以CRM理念指导企业电子商务的实施，并针对实施的不同阶段提出相应的措施。     

基于感知价值的服务失误补救后顾客满意的实证研究

本文在资源交换理论的框架下，提出了一个基于感知价值的顾客补救后满意的整合模型，研究服务失误和补救服务属性的交互作用对顾客感知价值的影响，最终决定顾客补救后满意。研究表明，感知价值对顾客补救后满意有较强的解释作用，同时还证明了服务失误内容和补救服务属性之间的交互作用，确实对顾客感知价值有显著的影响。     

Analysis and Forecast of the State of Environmental Protection in Russia

The main purpose of the present study is to analyse the emission dynamics of atmospheric and water pollutants in Russia and cost of their removal in the 1980s and early 1990s, and to forecast them by means of a Dynamic Input–Output Model according to different scenarios of future economic development till 1998. Main results of the work are:– methodological principles have been elaborated for singling out the environmental protection sector within the national economy;– a method has been offered for including the ecological block into a Dynamic Input–Output Model of the Russian economy;– a method of data preparation has been elaborated for the ecological block of the above-named model, the data base which characterizes the ecological situation in Russia has been formed and analysed;– calculations for 1994–1998 have been executed for forecasting the economic and ecological development of Russia using the above-mentioned model and the results obtained have been analysed. The results showed that if the existing tendencies towards low environmental protection capital costs remain the same, then the negative environmental impact will increase. In order to implement ecological programs and international agreements, to increase the proportion of removed pollutants, it is necessary to increase substantially expenditures on purifying water and air resources. The proportion of environmental protection investments in the total amount of the national economy capital costs should increase by up to 12–40% according to different scenarios of the economic development and different purposes of the environmental protection policy.