Revisiting Border Effect: Evidence from Taobao.com in China

Inherent home bias and trade barriers (particularly local protectionism in China), which are difficult to separate, are two main explanations of border effect. We attempt to solve this problem by analyzing online trade. Different from offline trade, inherent home bias is the only cause of online border effect because local governments are usually unable to restrict online trade. Thus, the difference between the border effect in online and offline trade can be reasonably interpreted as the existence of government protectionism in the offline market. We find a statistically significant difference between online and offline border effects in China, which can be interpreted as strong evidence that policy barriers remain significant and hinder interregional trade.     

Forecasting development outcomes under alternative surplus labour assumptions

Economic forecasts are useful to policymakers both as aids to planning, and as baselines against which counterfactual scenarios can be compared. However, policy makers should be aware that assumptions relating to model structure can influence forecast results. We explore the sensitivity of forecasts to one aspect of model structure important in modelling developing economies: surplus agricultural labour. We outline a framework for modelling surplus agricultural labour that relies on average product remuneration. We embed this within a model of a developing economy (the Philippines) characterized by surplus agricultural labour. We compare the results of two forecasts that differ in their treatment of the agricultural labour market. In the first, the surplus labour theory is activated, establishing average product remuneration in agriculture. In the second, the surplus labour theory is not activated, creating a failure to recognize average product remuneration in agriculture. By comparing the two simulations, we show that failure to model the presence of average product remuneration, when it would be appropriate to do so, has an impact that would be material to economic planners, leading them to: under-estimate agricultural employment; over-estimate GDP growth; and, over-estimate important policy variables (like tax revenue) that are related to GDP growth.     

高职高专院校EGP与ESP相结合的教学模式探析

近年来,随着我国经济的快速发展及与国际交往的日益密切,社会对于专业外语人才的需求日益增加,学生学习外语的目的性也变得越来越明确,原有的EGP教学模式已无法满足当代学生的需求。因此,一个新型的EGP与ESP相结合的英语教学模式应运而生。这种新型的教学模式符合市场对人才的需求,也有利于培养出＂语言＂＋＂专业＂的复合型人才。通过这种教学模式,可构建具有鲜明特色的高职英语教学体系。     

理性主义观照的英国BTEC课程模式探析

理性主义哲学体系崇尚科学与实证，理性主义的真理标准为自身观念的清楚明白。这种哲学观指导下的英国BTEC的课程模式，表现出课程目标设定清晰明确、注重学生的主体性学习、实施客观公正学生评价的特点。     

飞行器风洞试验标模体系研究初探

风洞试验标模是一种评估风洞试验准度和验证CFD算法的通用校准模型。本文归纳分析了北大四洋公约组织AGARD系列、法国ONERAM系列为代表的国外风洞试验标模发展情况,阐述了我国DBM、GBM、HSCM风洞标模系列的发展现状,探讨了建立和完善风洞试验标模体系的一些问题,意在为国内风洞和试验技术发展提供参考。     

标准综合体

建立标准综合体是开展综合标准化的关键环节。文章对标准综合体的特征和特点、标准综合体的建设步骤,以及标准综合体的结构模式等进行了阐述。     

中小企业成长及模式研究进展

中小企业与大型企业在成长路径和成长方式等方面存在不同之处,但从发展规律来看,中小企业仍然具有一般企业的成长特征。中小企业要获得持续快速的成长,必须选择适合自身的成长模式,实现规模从小到大素质由低到高不断发展壮大。     

企业组织沉默对组织承诺影响的实证研究

以组织沉默作为组织承诺的前因变量、组织承诺作为组织沉默的后果变量来构建组织沉默各维度对组织承诺各维度影响的结构方程模型,在运用结构方程模型的分析方法并运用相关软件处理调查研究数据的基础上,从实证的视角检验了组织沉默各维度对组织承诺各维度的负向影响效应。     

Consumption paths under prospect utility in an optimal growth model

This paper studies the Cass-Koopmans-Ramsey model of optimal economic growth in the presence of loss aversion and habit formation. The representative agent's preferences for consumption can be gradually varied between the standard constant intertemporal elasticity of substitution (CIES) case and Kahneman and Tversky's prospect utility. We find that the transitional dynamics of optimal consumption paths differ distinctly from the standard model, in particular consumption smoothing is more pronounced. We also show that prospect utility can cause the economy to remain in a steady state with low consumption and low capital.     

Making unilateral trade liberalisation beneficial to the poor

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of unilateral import liberalisation by a representative South Asian developing economy, Nepal, and demonstrate those conditions required to make the impacts ‘pro-poor.’ Applying the Computable General Equilibrium model to Social Accounting Matrix data, we conclude that import liberalisation is growth-enhancing but that, unfortunately, the rich benefit more than do the poor. We envisage a restructured but plausible model economy that requires a transformational period of ten years, and simulate unilateral trade liberalisation but, in the context of a dynamic model. We conclude that improvement in efficiency parameters, reorganisation of investment patterns, along with reallocation of factors of production by both household group and activity type are required to make growth accrued by import liberalisation ‘pro-poor’ in developing economies such as that of Nepal.