事件经济:城市转型的发动机

面对农民工的返乡潮,可持续发展的压力,后工业社会的如期而至,城市如何实现华丽转身,从容器变为磁体,成为上海及许多城市发展的课题。文章从加拿大蒙特利尔市和意大利布雷西亚等城市利用事件经济实现城市转型的实证出发,结合城市发展与事件经济的关系梳理,探讨了事件经济对城市转型的作用模式,以上海为例,提出了利用事件经济、重视自组织事件发展、聚集创意人才来发动城市转型的具体建议。     

The Trucking Sector Optimization Model: A tool for predicting carrier and shipper responses to policies aiming to reduce GHG emissions

In response to the growing Climate Change problem, governments around the world are seeking to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of trucking. The Trucking Sector Optimization (TSO) model is introduced as a tool for studying the decisions that shippers and carriers make throughout time (focusing on investments in Fuel Saving Technologies), and for evaluating their impact on life-cycle GHG emissions. A case study of fuel taxation in California is used to highlight the importance of (1) modeling the trucking sector comprehensively, (2) modeling the dynamics of the stock of vehicles, and (3) modeling different sources of emissions.     

Book Review

Following review of definitions of New Public Management (NPM), the paper assesses whether Canada has adopted the NPM, organized by Kernaghan and Charih's (1997) categories and using Loeffler's (1997) definition. Canada has reorganized the machinery of government, changed management methods and reduced the federal public sector substantially. Despite high debt, Canada's federal government reduced its expenditures and/or public service as much or more than the UK and New Zealand. Its expenditures as a proportion of GDP are now similar to those of the UK and New Zealand, the major proponents of NPM.     

Assessing the Determinants of High-Growth Manufacturing Firms in Italy

Few firms grow rapidly, but their contribution to employment growth is often impressive. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse both the external and internal factors that can affect the probability of being a high-growth firm (HGF) in Italy. We found that HGFs are, on average, young firms and are present in different industries, but the role of demand is important to understanding their performance at the sectoral level. Moreover, our findings show that financial constraints and profitability are not associated with the probability of being a HGF. HGFs, on average, are characterised by high productivity, but only when growth is measured in terms of sales. The most original results of this study concern the endogenous determinants of rapid growth, which have yet to be adequately examined in the literature. First, we found that the concentration of ownership is important for HGFs that experienced rapid growth in their sales. Second, the quality of human capital is a strong point for firms experiencing rapid employment growth.     

The Industry Determinants of Exchange Rate Pass-Through into Canadian Producer Prices

This paper models and estimates exchange rate pass-through and its determinants in Canadian manufacturing industries. The paper predicts theoretically that the exchange rate pass-through should be between one and zero, where it is positively affected by the share of tradable inputs in production costs and the domestic firms’ market share, and negatively by the elasticity of marginal cost with respect to output. The sign for the degree of product differentiation is not theoretically clear. Results of estimation indicate that pass-through is incomplete and is mostly affected by the share of tradable inputs in production costs (positively) and the elasticity of marginal cost with respect to output (negatively).     

民间资本进入金融领域问题研究——以松原市为例

随着我国经济的不断发展,民间资本的实力不断发展壮大。为正确引导其健康发展,国家出台了很多相关的政策法规。民间资本对我国的经济发展有着重要的作用,其中,民间资本进入金融领域,发挥其灵活、多样的特点,既有利于经济发展,也有利于其自身的壮大。本文分析了松原市民间资本在金融领域的发展现状及特点,指出了存在的问题,并针对问题提出了对策建议。     

中国经济增长的周期性波动研究及其产业结构特征(1992～2010年)

本文使用基于贝叶斯方法的结构突变模型,研究了1992～2010年我国经济增长的周期性波动特征。研究发现,该阶段我国经济增长分别经历了一次六阶段的U形中长周期和一次三阶段的V形短周期,国际经济环境的变化对我国经济的影响日益显著,同时经济增长的波动存在季度性。通过对三次产业GDP增长率的分析,我们还发现三者之间存在着较大偏离,第二产业对我国经济增长的周期性波动起着决定性的影响,同时第二、第三产业之间的关联性在不断增强。     

区际产业转移的最佳路径选择研究

从广义空间观看,区际产业转移符合区域可持续发展的客观要求,与区域协调观和节约型社会的本质相一致。但产业转移对区域可持续发展三维度的影响效应存在差异,衰退性产业转移以及招商引资领域环境门槛过低普遍会对承接区域生态安全构成威胁。经过综合利弊权衡,坚持区域可持续发展观是产业转移承接地的最优路径选择。     

基于三产互动与城乡统筹的区域经济空间分析

随着经济社会的发展,城乡关系与区域经济空间结构不断从低级向高级阶段演化.长期以来,我国三次产业之问与城乡之间的非有效联动发展导致了城乡经济空间的二元割裂,而这又进一步制约了产业的升级与区域经济空间结构的优化.现阶段,三产互动已成为提升产业现代化的重要途径,以此为基础和重要内涵的城乡统筹发展模式在有效促进城市经济空间从大...     

Information flows within and across sectors in Chinese stock markets

We examine the patterns of information flows within and across sectors of the two Chinese stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen during 1994–2001. Using the generalized forecast error variance decomposition, we find a high degree of interdependence, indicating that the sectors are highly integrated and sector prices reflect information from other sectors. Industry is the most influential sector in both exchanges, while Finance in Shenzhen is the least integrated with other sectors. Implications of the findings for investors and policymakers are also discussed.