The Industry Determinants of Exchange Rate Pass‐Through to Chinese Domestic Prices, 1980–2002

Previous research has found industry‐ and time‐varying effects of the exchange rate on domestic producer prices in China for the years 1980–2002. In this study, I examine the determinants of these variations. The variation of pass‐through elasticity across industries is explained by a set of variables that characterize market competitiveness, while the change of the pass‐through elasticity over time is interpreted by infrastructure development and the increasing proportion of non‐state‐owned enterprises in the economy, along with the structural break in years 1993–94. This study sheds light on the current debate on the effect of the urged appreciation of the Chinese Yuan.     

中国保障措施制度的发展对策研究

随着保障措施被世界各国越来越频繁的运用，中国与保障措施”打交道”越来越多，发展并完善中国的保障措施制度也成为一项十分紧迫的任务。本文从保障措施立法、国内产业、具体规定、前提条件等方面提出了完善中国保障措施制度的对策，从而促进中国保障措施制度的发展。     

苏州金融发展与经济增长关系的实证分析

文章依据金融与经济关系的原理,采用实证分析的方法论证苏州金融发展与经济增长关系,在此基础上做出合理的解释。     

中、外大型零售企业的竞争力比较分析

随着国际零售业巨头全面进入我国,中国本土大型零售企业面临激烈的竞争,本文就中国零售企业与国际零售企业之间在盈利能力、管理水平、自有品牌、规模、技术水平等方面的差距进行讨论后,并提出了缩小这些差距的对策。     

Price relations between export and domestic rice markets in Thailand

Many rice importing countries argue that rice exporting nations isolate their domestic markets through the use of stabilization pricing policies which cause international rice markets to become excessively volatile. For the argument to hold any weight, price transmission between exporting countries’ domestic and export markets should be unidirectional whereby export prices are driven by domestic prices but domestic prices are not affected by export prices. The study tests the hypothesis on Thailand, traditionally the world’s largest rice exporter. The results from the causality tests are not entirely clear, however the results from the impulse response functions show that while the shocks originating in the domestic market are higher in magnitude in the export market in the short-run, the shocks originating in the export market are more persistent in the domestic market. This suggests that although Thailand’s domestic policies are somewhat effective in the immediate months after the shock they allow price transmission from its export market to transfer over to its domestic market in the long-run. The results therefore imply that Thailand’s domestic pricing programs are not heavily distorting world rice markets.     

民营科技园竞争力测度研究

我国民营科技园正在迅速崛起，通过建立其竞争力测度指标体系和选择竞争力测度方法，摸索出一条可以对民营科技园竞争力量化的办法，揭示影响民营科技园竞争力的主观和客观原因，为其他的研究提供基础。     

Household Social Mobility for Paid Domestic Workers and Other Low-Skilled Women Employed in South Africa

This paper explores the theme of patronage by examining how the social mobility prospects of paid domestic workers differ from other vulnerable low-skilled black and colored women in post-apartheid South Africa. The literature provides contradictory predictions about the effects of a relationship with an affluent employer on a vulnerable employed woman and her household. Using data from the 2002–8 General Household Survey, this study uses propensity score matching (PSM) to compare paid domestic workers versus employed women with similar labor market characteristics. It finds that the household members of paid domestic workers tend to have a lower likelihood of unemployment, lower unemployment duration, higher likelihood of owning assets, and lower prevalence of hunger. It is, however, important to see evidence of such benefits in the context of a complicated employment relationship and to highlight that such benefits can reflect both altruistic and self-serving employer motivations.     

需求贸易理论与我国绿色贸易战略

从需求角度考查国际贸易理论，需求模式的变动会通过产业结构调整来影响贸易模式的发展和变化，因此，贸易格局的最终动因要到需求结构中去找。一国的竞争优势取决于市场规模，更取决于市场特征，内需在竞争优势中发挥了重要作用。目前，我国的外贸结构存在非持续性的弊端，实施绿色贸易战略，应该在注重外需因素的同时，充分发挥内需在培育绿色竞争优势方面的作用。     

FDI AND DOMESTIC INVESTMENT IN TAIWAN: AN ENDOGENOUS SWITCHING MODEL

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the FDI decision on domestic investment in the case of Taiwanese manufacturing firms. In addition, we also consider the deferral effect of the FDI decision and the role of firm size. To this end, this paper takes advantage of an endogenous switching model from which consistent estimators are obtained after correcting for the self‐selection problem. The empirical results show that the effect of these manufacturing firms’ FDI decisions on domestic investment is significant within the firms. Furthermore, a crowding‐out effect of FDI on domestic investment is found when Taiwanese firms engage in defensive FDI. Finally, FDI is found to have a positive influence on the domestic investment of the larger firms, while the influence is negative in the case of the smaller firms.     

A multi-spatial scale approach to urban sustainability – An illustration of the domestic and global hinterlands of the city of Beer-Sheva

Cities have always been dependent on ecological services from their local and regional hinterlands. In recent decades, however, urban population growth and rising material standards of living, in conjunction with technological development and globalization, have compelled cities to become reliant on global hinterlands. It follows that urban sustainability measures should target not only city and regional lands, but also the sustainability of global hinterlands. In this paper we disaggregate the urban hinterland into domestic and global hinterlands, using the city of Beer-Sheva, Israel as an example. We use a slightly revised ecological footprint analysis to separate the domestic and global hinterlands associated with various urban activities such as food, materials and water consumption, electricity use and transportation. We found that 94% of the Beer-Sheva footprint is ascribed to the global hinterland and only 6% to the domestic hinterland. We also found that the city's footprint is more than double that of a sustainable carrying capacity at the global scale and nine times more at the domestic level. After analyzing each component of the city's footprint, we identify some potential administrative measures at various scales – from local to global, which can help to minimize the size of the urban hinterland, reduce urban pressure on that hinterland, and thus promote urban sustainability.