Anchoring of inflation expectations in the euro area: Recent evidence based on survey data

This article analyses the anchoring of inflation expectations of professional forecasters and consumers in the euro area. We study anchoring, defined as the central bank's ability to manage expectations, by paying special attention to the impact of the ECB inflation target and ECB inflation projections on inflation expectations. Our analysis indicates that in the post-crisis period longer-term inflation expectations have become somewhat more sensitive to shorter-term ones and to actual HICP inflation. We also find that the ECB inflation projections have recently become more important for short- and medium-term expectations of professional forecasters and at the same time the role of the ECB inflation target for those expectations has diminished. Overall, our analysis suggests that in recent years inflation expectations in the euro area have shown some signs of de-anchoring.     

北京山区生态保护对策探究

北京山区是北京的生态保护屏障和水源涵养地，是北京建设宜居之都的重要屏障。保护山区生态环境问题，促进山区生态发展的可持续，日益引起社会关注。在把握北京山区现状的基础上，剖析了北京山区生态存在的问题并分析其原因，并提出山区生态可持续发展的对策。     

四川省重点生态功能区有机农业生产效率研究——基于三阶段DEA模型的实证分析

[目的]有机农业为我国农业绿色发展起到良好的带动作用,但我国有机农业发展中,西部贫困地区较为滞后。针对西部贫困地区有机农业生产效率进行定量分析,揭示影响有机农业生产效率的主要因素,旨在提高该地区有机农业生产效率,丰富区域视角下的有机农业生产研究。[方法]采用三阶段DEA模型对2014年四川省重点生态功能区有机农业生产效率进行量化分析,识别环境变量对有机农业生产效率的影响。[结果]环境因素和随机误差对四川省重点生态功能区有机农业生产效率产生了显著的影响。环境因素中,农民人均纯收入的增加有利于促使农机、耕地等资源的有效利用,但同时也导致化肥投入冗余增加;城镇化率的提高会降低耕地、劳动力、化肥、农药等使用效率,从而对有机农业生产效率产生不利影响;财政支出占GDP比重的增加有利于提高农机使用效率,但同时也导致化肥和农药投入冗余增加;粮食播种面积占耕地面积比重对有机农业生产效率产生了不利影响。剔除环境因素和随机误差的影响后,四川省重点生态功能区各县平均技术效率和规模效率有所下降,纯技术效率则略有提升。基于纯技术效率和规模效率,四川省重点生态功能区各县有机农业生产效率可分为"双高型""高低型""低高型"和"双低型"等4种类型。[结论]三阶段DEA模型有效剔除了环境因素和随机误差对有机农业生产效率的影响,估计的效率值更真实地反映了四川省重点生态功能区有机农业生产效率水平。针对四川省重点生态功能区各县有机农业生产效率的不同特征,应结合地方实际,通过扩大要素投入规模或改进要素配置效率和使用效率,提高有机农业生产效率。     

新时期加大农村土地流转力度的思考

[目的]在系统阐述我国土地流转现状的基础上探索新形势下加大土地流转力度的新思路,以期为新形势下的农村土地流转提供理论参考。[方法]文章运用文献研究法和调查法,对我国目前土地流转的模式、面积、速度等进行调查和分析,总结目前的发展趋势,寻求新形势下加快农村土地流转的措施。[结果]2007~2014年,我国农村土地流转面积在稳步上升中,从2007的0.042亿hm~2增长到了2014的0.269亿hm~2,翻了6倍多。2007年约为424.8万hm~2,仅占家庭承包耕地总面积的5.2%。截止2014年底,全国家庭承包耕地流转面积达到2 686.7万hm~2,比2013年底增长18.3%;流转面积占家庭承包经营耕地面积的30.4%,比2013年提高4.7个百分点。2007~2010年,农村土地流转面积年际变化逐年减小,从2007~2008年的0.031亿hm~2减少到2009~2010年的0.025亿hm~2;2011~2014年,农村土地流转面积年际变化呈现为逐年增加的趋势,从2010~2011年的0.027亿hm~2增加到2013~2014年的0.042亿hm~2。2007~2010年,农村土地流转面积年际增幅呈现逐渐下降的趋势,从73.8%急速下降到25%;从2010年开始,农村土地流转面积年际增幅趋于稳定,保持在21%左右,上下浮动不大。[结论]农村土地流转速度和进程逐渐加快,规模越来越大,流转形式多样化并存协调发展。国内土地流转面积表现出渐趋增加的态势,年际增幅趋于稳定,规模运营表现出攀升趋势。由于国家政策,市场经济的发展,农村形势的改善等原因,我国的土地流转进程进一步得到推动和加快。     

Revising the European Central Bank’s fiscal rules to support growth and employment

Abstract

The paper presents a reform proposal for the operations of the European Central Bank (ECB) whose purpose is to create a common set of risk-free assets for financial institutions operating in the euro area (EA), which is the necessary condition for having a single internal financial market. The proposal does not require the introduction of changes in the existing European Union treaties. The effects of this reform on the debt dynamic of EA member countries permit a revision of the existing fiscal rules. With the help of some simulations, it is shown that maintaining compliance with the European treaties, the reform of the ECB operations and revised fiscal rules would transform the current fiscal deflationary stance into a reflationary one. Some implications for aggregate demand and growth for the EA are briefly discussed.     

城市功能拓展区域文化产业园发展路径研究

城市功能拓展区既缺少核心区集聚的文化资源优势,又缺少郊区低廉的发展成本优势,但在着力发展文化创意产业的过程中,却可以通过整合文化产业园区资源,形成独特的发展优势.本文运用商业生态学理论,分析城市功能拓展区内文化产业园区发展的“三元”联动主体,构建园区资源整合的双重主体理论,并提出文化产业园区确定主导产业并吸引核心企业以“聚核”、拓展纵向产业链和横向服务链以“聚链”、打造公共平台并进行功能体系建设以“聚网”的“三聚”持续发展路径.     

Socio-environmental drivers of forest change in rural Uganda

Tropical deforestation and forest degradation are among the top global threats to biodiversity, carbon storage and rural livelihoods, but the social processes underlying these changes remain difficult to observe across large spatial scales and in data-poor contexts such as tropical Africa. We link longitudinal survey data from agricultural households in rural Uganda to high-resolution satellite data on forest cover change, and use this linked dataset to investigate processes at two scales: tree planting and harvesting at the parcel scale, and deforestation and reforestation at the community scale. This multi-scale analysis reveals that tree planting is more common on parcels with secure tenure, by educated heads and in isolated communities. Deforestation is highest in land-rich, agrarian communities with low population density and high baseline forest cover. These results provide explicit evidence that the social drivers of forest change in Uganda vary across scales, indicating a need for additional multi-scale studies.     

住宅用地基准地价的容积率系数修正新方法

容积率修正系数编制是土地评估领域探讨的热点之一。提出了先构建容积率、因素总分值与地价关系的地价模型,进而编制分级别的住宅用地容积率修正系数的新方法,并以北海市为例进行实证研究。研究表明:地理加权回归模型的拟合度明显优于最小二乘法,便于据此编制更精准的分级别容积率修正系数表;该方法引入因素总分值规避了传统区域修正方法的主观任意性问题,便于计算机进行批量快速处理,保证了编制的容积率修正系数的可靠性,在实践中行之有效。     

基于指数平滑法的组合模型对住房需求量的预测研究

以哈尔滨市2000—2015年的城市人均住房使用面积和总人口数为基础，分别对总人口数建立三次指数平滑法模型，对人均住房使用面积建立二次指数平滑法模型，预测出哈尔滨市未来五年总人口数和人均住房使用面积，将总人口数和人均住房使用面积的预测结果代入M-W优化后的预测模型，更加精准的预测出了哈尔滨市未来五年的住房需求量，并对此提出对策和建议。     

Ramshackle farmhouses,useless old stables,or irreplaceable cultural heritage? Local inhabitants’ perspectives on future uses of the Walser built heritage

Social and economic developments in rural regions call for a discussion of strategies of dealing with redundant traditional buildings. Using a social science approach, our study examines how the local population in two rural regions perceives the built heritage and which factors are underlying these perceptions. People’s attitudes towards maintaining the cultural heritage vary considerably and are partly influenced by the socio-cultural and economic context of the region. The present article discusses some of the core regional socio-cultural influences on attitudes towards the rural built heritage. Following from qualitative interviews, the article concludes that the scale of perception of the built heritage is related to the “liveliness” of the local culture: The more original and distinctive the local culture is, and the more the local economy is still based on agriculture, the wider the scale of perception of the traditional cultural landscape and built heritage. In a region with local traditions that are alive and followed in everyday life, and a local economy that is mainly based on agriculture, the entire settlement structure is perceived as cultural heritage. In such areas, alternative uses should be found for redundant buildings. In contrast, in regions where the culture is less visible and alive nowadays and where the local economy has changed, people tend to perceive single buildings as representing their cultural heritage, and they often wish to preserve and conserve such remaining houses, barns and stables. In the study, we show that from a social science point of view, there is no universal perception of the maintenance of built cultural heritage. Rather, we see different views and opinions that are important to consider when it comes to developing heritage protection strategies together with public authorities.