Entrepreneurship in post-socialist economies: A typology and institutional contexts for market entrepreneurship

There is growing recognition among post-socialist (PS) economies that free-market entrepreneurship is essential for ultimately improving their economic future. The promotion of market entrepreneurship, however, has been a challenging experience for these economies. This paper examines various forms of entrepreneurship in PS economies. Drawing upon the institutional theory, we also highlight the clear contexts and attendant mechanisms associated with institutions–entrepreneurship nexus in PS economies’ contexts.

Protection and jobs: explaining the structure of trade barriers across industries

This paper develops a model of protection and tests it using US data, including new protection measures. We find that protection in an industry increases with its employment but not with its level of output. We also find that lobbying entails significant transactions costs. We have limited evidence that industry characteristics, such as the number of firms and geographical concentration, affect protection. Nested tests imply that assuming lump-sum rebating of import revenues or rents is justified. The results also suggest that US policy makers weight a dollar of campaign contributions about 15% more heavily than a dollar of national income.     

Endogenous political organization and the value of trade agreements

In a bargaining model of endogenous protection, I introduce fixed costs of political-organization that need to be incurred by capitalists prior to actual lobbying. Unlike Maggi and Rodriguez-Clare [J. Pol. Econ. 106(3) (1998) 575] intersectoral capital mobility is disallowed. Nevertheless, I am still able to obtain their main result that a government with low bargaining power vis-à-vis the import-competing lobby precommits to a free-trade agreement. Further, with high fixed organizational costs, the government prefers to stay out of such agreements. Its maximum bargaining power consistent with signing a trade agreement has an inverse-V-shaped relationship with respect to the size of fixed costs.     

Social rights, essential services, and political mobilization in post-apartheid South Africa

This paper discusses movements that organize constituencies in order to allow them access to the consumption of goods and services, while rejecting at the same time their identity as consumers. Instead, they base their claims on people’s identities as citizens of the state and members of communities. Putting forward the notion of social rights, the paper examines how movements operating among marginalized communities in the post-colonial world work to define rights and entitlements, and use these to mobilize for enhancing the delivery of social services. In particular, the focus is on rights to land and to public utilities (water and electricity) in post-apartheid South Africa. Examining these in the context of political transition, the paper looks at different legal and political strategies, and the ways in which they draw on and shape discourses of power, rights, and social consumption. It concludes that meaningful social change and effective service delivery require a combined strategy, working with the courts and legal professionals, together with popular constituencies, the media, civil society organizations, academics, and state officials.     

绿色贸易措施的政治博弈

随着贸易自由化和全球经济一体化,世界各国出于维护本国国际竞争比较优势战略目标和实现贸易与环境协调发展的客观需要,以可持续发展为口号,以保护环境和人类健康为目的或借口,以产品标准、环境标志、绿色包装、贸易制裁等为手段的绿色贸易措施正在成为国际社会特别是发达国家越来越频繁使用的新的国际贸易保护手段。形形色色的绿色贸易措施正在向系统化、制度化和国际化方向演进。本文通过对近期一些国外经济学家的相关文献回顾,对绿色贸易措施产生的政治博弈过程进行简单的综述,为我国参与新一轮的WTO谈判提供一些理论参考。     

关于印度反倾销调查中“中国市场经济地位”

“非市场经济地位”是我国遭遇大量反倾销调查和反倾销败诉的主要原因。近年来，连发展中国家印度也频繁动用非市场经济地位武器对付中国。本文先分析了印度未给予我国市场经济地位待遇的情况及原因，论述了印度拒绝承认我国市场经济地位所带来的危害，并且从政府、企业和行业协会三个层面提出了如何争取印度承认我国市场经济地位的具体措施。     

一种多传感器空情信息融合算法

针对防空指挥系统快速反应决策能力要求,给出了可行的系统信息融合处理软件组成结构及功能描述,提出了一种适用于快速空情信息融合的通用信息融合处理方法和模型算法。建模过程中,提出的信息融合处理方法和模型算法将防空指挥系统信息融合的复杂过程条理化、公式化和数字化。仿真结果证明,该方法是正确和有效的。目前,该方法已应用到实际工程中。     

中国土地利用碳排放及其空间关联

基于研究单元全部土地利用类型数据,采用碳排放计算模型,估算了中国31个省区1990-2008年的土地利用碳排放强度,揭示其时空演变规律,并利用空间自相关方法,探讨了中国省级尺度土地利用碳排放强度的空间关联特征.结果表明:①1990-2008年,中国土地利用碳排放量从9.67×108t持续上升至32.37× 108t.建设用地是主要的碳排放来源,其碳排放量占总碳排放量的97.83％以上.林地是主要的碳汇,其碳排放量占总碳排放量的90％以上.②受经济发展水平和地形差异的影响,碳排放强度空间差异显著,重度碳排放区域集中分布在东部、北部沿海地区,轻度碳排放区域集中分布在西北、西南地区.③全局自相关Moran'sI值从1990年的0.1558持续上升至2008年的0.2734,说明中国土地利用碳排放强度在省级尺度上具有明显的空间集聚特征,且集聚程度不断增强.④集聚中心和孤立点的空间转移存在较强的规律性.⑤局域自相关分析表明,中国土地利用碳排放强度表现出十分明显的局部空间差异.碳排放强度高值集聚区和低值集聚区均表现出较强的空间锁定和路径依赖特征,体现为高值集聚区向沿海集中,低值集聚区向内陆迁移.     

Are stock prices related to the political uncertainty index in OECD countries? Evidence from the bootstrap panel causality test

This study applies the bootstrap panel causality test proposed by Kónya (2006. Econ Modell 23, 978) to investigate the causal link between political uncertainty and stock prices for seven OECD countries over the monthly period of 2001.01 to 2013.04. This modeling approach allows us to examine both cross-sectional dependency and country-specific heterogeneity. Our empirical results indicate that not all the countries are alike and that the theoretical prediction that stock prices fall at the announcement of a policy change is not always supported. Specifically, we find evidence for the stock price leading hypothesis for Italy and Spain, while the political uncertainty leading hypothesis cannot be rejected for the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, the neutrality hypothesis was supported in the remaining three countries (Canada, France and Germany), while no evidence for the feedback hypothesis was found.     

基于灰关联分析与D-S证据理论的多传感器雷达辐射源识别方法

本文涉及中国公司针对美国商务部裁决产自中国的罐装蘑菇构成倾销的司法审查的案件,文章对该案的基本案情、推理理由、法院判决进行了归纳,并就我国企业如何利用美国反倾销的司法审查的程序进行了简要评述。