A CGE model of 'Dutch disease' economics in Taiwan

A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of Dutch disease economics in Taiwan's economy is established in order to examine the impacts of the imbalanced growth in output, endogenous learning effects from imports and exports and the import tariff reduction. Twenty-nine industry sectors and five quintiles of households are taken to measure the changes in industry structure and functional distribution of income. An imbalanced growth, either from output or exports, contributes to the reduction in the share of manufacturing industry, but the deterioration in the functional distribution of income only happens to an imbalanced growth in intersectoral output. A widespread trade liberalization policy helps to mitigate the Dutch disease phenomenon in the sense that de-industrialization and deterioration of the distribution of income by an imbalanced growth in manufacturing industry are not so severe.     

Implementation of a Course Management System

ABSTRACT

This article describes the implementation of a course management system in a university hotel and tourism management school. The results of a small-scale evaluation are presented. To help teachers consider the pedagogical aspects of using such systems to provide supplementary opportunities to on-campus students, ten techniques based upon the views of students are presented.     

Running on the spot? A review of twenty years of research on the management of human resources in comparative and international perspective

Research using a comparative and international perspective on the management of human resources is examined, drawing on articles published in leading human resource management, management/organizational behaviour and related social science journals between 1977 and 1997. In total a little under 2 per cent of the articles under review focused on the management of human resources in a comparative and international perspective. The largest group of these articles was comparative in nature (44 per cent), followed by those with an international perspective (35 per cent). A smaller number adopted a combined approach (17 per cent) and a few were separately classified as foreign national studies (4 per cent). Over time, there has been some progress made in terms of the number of articles published and the scope of topics covered. However, many of the articles displayed similar shortcomings to those noted in earlier reviews of cross-national management/organization studies: in particular, an over-reliance on a small number of primarily Anglo-Saxon countries, a lack of a longitudinal perspective, a loose specification of culture, an ethnocentric bias and a frequent failure to explain observed differences and similarities.     

An information-based adaptive strategy for resource exploitation in competitive scenarios

Given an exploitation problem, in which a number of agents compete for a limited renewable resource, the optimal harvesting strategy depends on the ratio between resource availability and exploitation effort. For scarce resource a purely competitive, greedy strategy outperforms a more collaborative approach based on the Collective Intelligence, while for more abundant resource the opposite holds. The rationale for this behaviour lies in the amount of information each strategy is able to provide and a combined strategy is possible according to which agents choose dynamically the most informative strategy according to a minimum entropy criterion. This approach, which provides best performance for both under and over-exploited scenarios, can be used to monitor the resource status for management purposes and is effective in both centralised and decentralised decision making.     

大学英语课程测试与试卷分析

课程测试是考核学生学习效果和检查教师教学效果的重要方式与途径。本文通过对《大学英语》这一课程的试卷和检测结果进行分析和讨论，以求对《大学英语》课程进行客观、准确、公正的测试，以便提高大学英语教学质量。     

科教兴镇战略与科技进步 --以辽宁省建平县哈拉道口镇为例

辽西资源重镇-哈拉道口镇继科技兴国战略之后,提出科教兴镇战略.本文阐述了该镇科教兴镇的现状及存在的问题,大胆提出了在乡镇科技进步中建立科技园区、引进优秀科技人才等对策建议.     

Gay tourism in a sun and beach destination

Gay tourism is seen as an attractive business opportunity for many destinations. However, there is a lack of research at identifying the resources necessary for success in this type of tourism. This work is aimed at filling this gap by using the premises of the resource based view and transfers them to the analysis of territories to identify the valuable resources that are required for a sun and beach destination to attract gay tourists. To this end, this study has focused on a gay tourism sub niche, tourists lodged in gay-exclusive resorts in Gran Canaria. In order to confirm the validity of this approach, the relationship between the satisfaction of gay tourists and the condition of the valuable resources was studied by means of a robust statistical new method, namely Bayesian model averaging. That method permits the inclusion of uncertainty in the theoretical models that determine destination competitiveness, thus reducing many of the problems that arise in the application of the more conventional statistical methods in this type of analysis.     

基于公地悲剧理论的共生旅游资源开发研究——以环太湖旅游区为例

共生旅游资源在开发利用中,由于产权未界定,各方在获得收益时都将成本最大化地外化到公共领域,从而造成资源浪费、过度开发、资源使用效率低下、环境恶化的悲剧后果。在资源共生的相邻行政区划土地产权不可能明确界定的刚性约束下,消除公地悲剧主要通过建立开发联合体实现,依托联合体,统一规划,加强开发分工,实施整体营销,保护核心共生产品从而保证共生资源开发的市场绩效,实现共生资源开发的竞合有序化。     

人力资源会计信息披露的动机——基于我国A股上市公司年报的分析

过对国内A股上市公司人力资源会计信息披露情况的调查和分析,得出以下结论:人力资源会计在我国实践中已经有所发展,并非以往所认为的基本处于停滞状态;企业对人力资源会计信息的披露也表现出比较强的积极性。