Commodity currencies

This paper looks at real exchange rate behavior by focusing on three OECD economies (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) where primary commodities constitute a significant share of their exports. For Australia and New Zealand especially, we find that the US dollar price of their commodity exports (generally exogenous to these small economies) has a strong and stable influence on their floating real rates, with the magnitude of the effects consistent with predictions of standard theoretical models. However, after controlling for commodity price shocks, there is still a purchasing power parity puzzle in the residual. The results here are relevant to developing commodity-exporting countries as they liberalize their capital markets and move towards floating exchange rates.     

Analysis of the Trade Dispute of Chinese Agricultural Products and Its Countermeasures

The trade dispute of agricultural products has become one of the hot issues that international community has paid close attention to for three years. This paper analyzes the current dispute situation, the characters and the causes in international export trade. It also points out how the government, enterprises and employer＇s organizations deal with the trade dispute of agricultural products.     

工业园区的物流建设

通过对我国工业园区的介绍,按物流活动特点对工业园区进行分类;介绍了我国工业园区的物流状况并提出提高园区物流水平的建议。     

城市副中心商圈定位研究

随着各地城市建设速度的加快 ,许多城市都面临着老城区商业中心的改造 ,城市副中心新商圈的建设问题。因此 ,商圈定位问题也一再被人们所关注。文章从解释商圈定位的涵义入手 ,阐述了城市副中心商圈定位 ,对政府的远景规划、商业方向的定位、零售业态的选择、房地产项目以及区域发展等的意义 ,探讨如何从商圈辐射力、商圈引客效应、商圈向心力、商圈竞争力、商圈发展潜力等方面对将要改扩建的商圈进行分析 ,研究不同条件下的城市副中心商圈定位模式。     

Trade intensity,country size and corruption

Abstract. Several authors claim to provide evidence that governmental corruption is less severe in countries where trade intensity is higher or populations are smaller. We argue that theory is highly ambiguous on these questions, and demonstrate that empirical links between corruption and trade intensity – or country size, strongly related to trade intensity – are sensitive to sample selection bias. Most available corruption indicators provide ratings only for those countries in which multinational investors have the greatest interest: these tend to include almost all large nations, but among small nations only those that are well-governed. We find that the relationship between corruption and trade intensity disappears, using newer corruption indicators with substantially increased country coverage. Similarly, the relationship between corruption and country size weakens or disappears using samples less subject to selection bias. Received: July 2001 / accepted: April 2002 We thank Anand Swamy and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions, Paul Schorosch for able research assistance, and Ray Fisman, Roberta Gatti, Aart Kraay, and Shang-jin Wei for kindly providing data. The conclusions of this paper are not intended to represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.     

我国产权交易市场的特征及其市场失灵问题解析

市场经济条件下的市场调节功能失灵是普遍存在的现象,必须依靠政府监管和调控才能有效克服。我国现行产权交易市场的基本特征表明,国有资产所有者非人格化缺陷是我国产权交易市场失灵的最主要原因。必须尽快健全和完善我国国有资产监督与管理的法律体系,为各级国有资产管理部门履行出资人职责提供立法依据,建立起一个在政府有效监管下的行业和企业自律的产权交易市场。     

从隆福寺变迁看城市商圈规划

通过隆福寺从繁华到萧条以至今日的逐步向高端发展的变迁过程反映了其商圈规划的缺陷和问题,从中分析了城市发展中商圈规划的基本原则及其注意事项。     

Infrastructure provision and international market share rivalry

The paper examines a model of strategic infrastructure investment. Two oligopolistic firms compete on home and foreign product markets for market shares. The national governments support the firms in the market rivalry by providing cost reducing public infrastructure services that are financed out of taxing an input used in the production process. It is shown, that infrastructure policy can be used as an instrument for strategic trade policy. However, governments are facing the problem of balancing the burden of taxation and the benefits of infrastructures. The theoretical model also raises some critical issues with respect to the policy relevance of recent empirical infrastructure research.     

对我国外贸的循环经济战略初探

我国经济发展面临资源环境的约束,对外贸易中面临越来越多的贸易壁垒,尤其是绿色壁垒。鉴于我国目前所面临的情况和循环经济的大环境,我国要在对外贸易中实行循环经济战略。     

服务贸易发展的宏观政策战略转变分析

顺应全球产业结构的发展变化趋势,做好中国服务贸易发展的战略准备。作者提出了中国宏观经济发展思路和宏观经济发展政策的八个战略转变建议及具有针对性的有关中国服务贸易发展的五大产业政策转变对策。