Valuing Food Store Access: Policy Implications for the Food Stamp Program

Food stamp recipients may lack access to larger stores, reducing the availability of nutritious food. Reliance on smaller stores may have undesirable impacts. Policy alternatives include limiting food stamp redemption to larger stores and subsidizing store development. I estimate that limiting redemption to supermarkets and grocery stores, or supermarkets alone, results in losses ranging from $499.2 million to $1.05 billion, or $1.17 billion to $2.44 billion (respectively) annual loss in food stamp recipient welfare nationwide. The impact of improving access is also significant, ranging from $333.6 million to $931.2 million.     

The Nested PIGLOG Model: An Application to U.S. Food Demand

A new demand system is introduced, the Nested PIGLOG model, nesting thirteen other demand systems including five that are also new. This new model and its nested special cases are applied to models of U.S. food demand that include food-at-home (FAH), food-away-from-home (FAFH), and alcoholic beverages. Although nested tests and out-of-sample forecasting performance favor generalizing models to a certain degree, statistically insignificant improvements to in-sample-fit and even poorer out-of-sample forecast accuracy undermine further generalizations. Based on a subset of preferred models, FAFH is found to be price and income elastic compared to FAH which is price and income inelastic.     

农村居民食物消费的可持续发展

农村居民食物消费的可持续发展不仅决定着农村居民的健康水平 ,还决定着农村居民食物消费的可持续性。通过对我国农村居民食物消费的合理性分析 ,提出了农村居民食物消费的合理选择和可持续发展对策。     

如何提升企业的核心竞争力

企业的核心竞争力是企业获取持续竞争优势的来源和基础。中国企业欲在经济全球化大潮中立于不败之地，最有效也是最关键的一点．即是提升企业的核心竞争力。以技术创新为核心，以信息化为动力，以争创名牌为手段．以企业文化为后盾．全面提升自己的核心竞争力，才能在日趋激烈的国际市场竞争中有所作为。     

Globalization frustrated: The case of white goods

This paper challenges the common view that mature industries are always ripe for global strategies. Based on data from the European Domestic Appliance industry, this paper shows how changing economic conditions can diminish the value of global strategies. Critical in these shifts were simultaneous rises in demand for variety (that eroded the benefits of scale and continental market share) and decreases in manufacturing scale (that permitted new supply options), which reduced the extent of the strategic market to national dimensions. They added complexity that decreased the profitability of the global players and increased that of national strategies. The fluctuating fortunes of leading firms are shown to have been caused primarily by choices of strategy, not by national factor costs.     

全球化背景下中国文化的创新

经济全球化的进程已经深刻地波及到文化领域。面对全球化的态势我们必须深刻地反思中国文化及文化产业所面临的一系列问题。发展建设中国文化及文化产业 ,最根本的问题就是要解决文化创新的问题 ,即实施国家文化创新、文化思想学术创新和文化观念创新。     

杜邦莱卡:化纤产业互动营销的经典案例

系统地剖析了杜邦莱卡纤维独特的互动营销模式，阐述了导入消费品营销手法、与下游企业建立互动联盟从而推动化纤产品市场营销运作的新思路，激励本土化纤食业创新理念、争取主动。     

外商直接投资对产业结构升级的作用机制研究

随着知识经济时代的到来,产业结构升级成为现代经济发展中的焦点问题。外商投资起到了促进传统产业转移、新兴产业成长和产业组织结构优化等作用,并且带动了产业的调整和升级。但是,外商投资对于产业结构升级也存在一定的阻碍作用,通过研究外资对产业升级产生的影响,从而制定合理的引资政策具有十分重要的现实意义。     

济南市物流产业现状分析及对策研究

本文介绍了近年来济南市物流产业发展的现状，分析了济南市物流产业已经取得的成绩和存在的问题。并提出了相应的解决措施。     

发展深圳都市工业的思考

都市工业是适应大都市可持续发展要求,并与城市环境相协调的制造业。发展都市工业是调整工业结构、优化资源配置、培育特色经济、完善城市产业功能、改善生态环境、扩大就业、提高城市综合竞争力、实现经济和社会可持续发展的战略选择。本文结合国内主要城市发展都市工业的经验,分析了深圳的优势,提出深圳发展都市工业的建议。