Asset Revaluations in the Accounts of UK National Health Service Trusts

This paper reports the results of an investigation into the impact of the revaluation of fixed assets on the reported results of NHS ambulance services. It recalculates the accounting rate of return of individual trusts after removing revaluation adjustments and examines the published responses of trusts. The numerical analysis demonstrates that, in general, revaluation has depressed the stated rate of return in an inconsistent manner. Failure to meet the required rate of return may cause a trust to be subjected to additional monitoring and management reorganisation while the trusts respond by explaining deviations in the accounting return measure by referring to revaluations and other technical adjustments. Management decisions made in response to these accounting measures may be sub-optimal in delivering health care but appropriate in achieving the desired accounting outcome.     

Qualitative Input–Output Analysis of the Indian Economic Structure

Qualitative input–output (IO) analysis can be considered mostly in terms of a graph-theoretic formulation, which involves the construction and use of an adjacency matrix, derived from a binary transformation of the IO coefficient matrix. Classical attempts at qualitative IO analysis have derived the structure from the direct IO coefficient table. In more recent attempts, greater sophistication has been achieved by incorporating a degree of quantification into the qualitative analysis. Also, the concept of important coefficients (IC) has been used for the construction of the adjacency matrix. The present study is carried out along these lines for the Indian economy.     

Managing capital flows in Poland, 1995-98

Poland has been encouraging foreign direct investment, including the purchase of company shares, but has been attempting to limit the inflow of speculative short-term capital. The policy so far has been effective without the use of any capital controls. The paper explains the policy and the reasons for its apparent success. The paper also discusses the evolving threats to macroeconomic stability of the Polish economy and policy responses to these threats.     

Creative Destruction, Investment Volatility, and the Average Age of Capital

In this article, a new numerical procedure is used to compute the equilibrium of a vintage capital growth model with nonlinear utility, where the scrapping time is nonconstant. We show that equilibrium investment and output converge nonmonotonically to the balanced growth path due to replacement echoes. We find that the average age of capital is inversely related to output, which is consistent with recent micro evidence reinforcing the importance of the embodied question. We also find that an unanticipated permanent increase in the rate of embodied technological progress causes labor productivity to slowdown in the short run.     

Determinants of Swap Spreads in a Developing Financial Market: Evidence from Finland

This paper presents empirical evidence on the determinants of swap spreads in Finland using four years of data. Spreads exhibit a significant negative relationship with the amount of fixed rate deposits with banks, which reflects the importance of banks in the Finnish capital markets. Spreads are positively linked to business cycle and market risk factors such as the slope of the yield curve and the volatility of interest rates. The influence of hedging costs has become increasingly important over time, especially in longer dated swaps. A relationship is also observed between swap spreads and the external value of the currency.     

Employment and wage dynamics in Estonia, 1989-951

This study monitors the effects of economic transition on wages and employment in a former Soviet Republic. Estonia's case is of particular interest because of its early adoption of relatively free labour market policies. Relative wages for the highest educated groups rose for all age groups. There were also rapid increases in returns to job experience, particularly at young ages. Increasing wage dispersion across human capital groups was accompanied by narrowing wage dispersion within human capital groups. Relative wages rose in sectors which gained relative employment, while they fell in shrinking sectors. In addition, there were large flows of labour between shrinking and growing sectors, suggesting that labour market equilibrating mechanisms developed very rapidly in Estonia.     

生态资本价值的计量

随着中国市场经济的快速发展,生态资本对经济可持续发展的重要性,越来越受到人们的关注。但生态资本准确的计量一直是个难题。本文首先对生态资本的概念进行了界定,然后分析了生态资本的价值构成,最后在此基础上提出了具体的计量方法,特别是对生态资本的服务价值的计量进行了定量分析。     

标准化组织知识产权政策分析

标准化组织作为技术标准的制定者，其政策的制定对广大技术标准的采用者来讲均有重大影响。现在众多掌握核心技术的公司纷纷将其拥有的专利技术融入到技术标准中，以此来获得市场及技术的优势地位，因此，标准化组织的知识产权政策至关重要。     

论公平分配实现的微观基础

文章首先在理论上提出初次分配是实现公平分配的基础,强调企业内收入分配制度的改革是在初次分配领域实现公平分配的微观基础上进行,并详细论述了实现企业内公平分配的产权基础,从而为中国解决收入差距过大、实现公平分配提供实践指南。     

我国现行防伪税控系统及替代方案的探讨

为了避免现行税控系统增值税虚假抵扣的发生,一种全新的解决增值税管理的思想,即在线式增值税管理系统,可以作为金税三期工程解决增值税问题的参考。在线式增值税管理系统依托计算机网络系统,采取在线式开票和在线式抵扣的方法,把增值税发票的使用、开票等所有的信息通过网络采集到数据库服务器中,从而进行开票和抵扣。通过数据的集中和传递,把相应的信息直接传递到抵扣方所在税务局,从而方便使用。