Macroeconomic adjustment with managed exchange rates and capital controls: Some lessons from China

This paper examines the performance of capital controls and exchange-rate management when the economy finds itself in dark corners. These are times when the real sector experiences a sequence of prolonged negative shocks from world demand, while the central bank faces low world interest rates on its foreign-exchange reserve holdings. We examine two regimes, one of a fixed exchange rate with strong capital controls and another with a more open capital account with a managed exchange rate. We show how this model replicates recent experiences of China as it moved from a relatively fixed exchange rate regime with strong capital controls to a more flexible exchange rate regime with a more open capital account. Our results show that capital-account liberalization should be accompanied by domestic price liberalization to avoid large losses in foreign exchange reserve and jumps in unemployment during dark corners in the more open regime.     

Does the transformation of accounting firms’ organizational form improve audit quality?Evidence from China

In this study,we examine the effects of the transformation of accounting firms’organizational form on audit quality.We find that the transformation from limited...     

财政支农的市场一体化效应及其政策

以增加农民收入从而支撑具有产业、区域特征的市场一体化为视角,对财政政策不同的支农方式和支农工具所产生的不同的农业市场一体化效应进行了分析,认为直接收入补贴明显好于价格支持;间接支农优于直接支农;而且不同的支农项目对市场一体化的促进作用差异显著。为此,提出了逐步减少价格支持,增加直接收入补贴,增加财政间接支农力度,引导农业生产要素多渠道利用,促进农业系统内外部合作,重视三农无形资产,建立适当监督机制等政策建议。     

西部大开发与广西旅游扶贫

广西的苗、瑶、侗、壮等少数民族地区，民风纯真，民族民情古朴浓郁，景色秀丽。规划开发这些旅游资源优势，将它们转化为经济优势，开展旅游扶贫，能很好地促进贫困地区经济发展，致富一方百姓。     

不能把"社会主义初级阶段"混同于"共产主义社会第一阶段"--与方生同志商榷

社会主义初级阶段≠共产主义社会第一阶段,两者是完全不同领域的范畴;马克思所论述的旧社会痕迹≠社会主义初级阶段存在的非公有制经济.     

铁路局管辖范围增大的管理问题思考

针对南昌铁路局管辖范围扩大后面临的实际问题,按照现代企业组织管理的基本原理,提出实施分层分类、分层分权管理,并对应该做好的产业结构和生产力布局调整、建立管理新机制、规范分层管理决策程序、提高人员素质等相关工作进行了探析,以期对铁路局直管站段的管理工作有所裨益。     

Incentives for voluntary disclosure

Rule l0b-5 of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act allows investors to sue firms for misrepresentation or omission. Since firms are principal–agent contracts between owners – contract designers – and privately informed managers, owners are the ultimate firms’ voluntary disclosure strategists. We analyze voluntary disclosure equilibrium in a game with two types of owners: expected liquidating dividends motivated (VMO) and expected price motivated (PMO). We find that Rule l0b-5: (i) does not deter misrepresentation and may suppress voluntary disclosure or, (ii) induces some firms to adopt a partial disclosure policy of disclosing only bad news or only good news.     

A note on the projection properties of Hadamard matrices obtained by the first Payley construction

We show that the projections on four factors of an arbitrary orthogonal array of strength 2 allow the estimation of main effects and two-factor interactions when all other effects are assumed to be zero, if those projections satisfy the bounds given by Weils theorem. The only exceptions are the Hadamard matrices of orders 16 and 24. A consequence is again the estimability of main effects and two-factor interactions for the projections on four factors of the first Payley construction for arbitrary run size.     

农村金融:现实挑战与发展选择

农村金融体制的改革严重滞后，已经成为农村发展的重要障碍。当前中国农村经济已进入新畴发展阶段，其面临的主要矛盾是由增加供给转变为提高效益，传统的数量扩张为主的增长方式受到严重挑战。农村和农业发展对资金要素的依赖程度日趋增强．然而现实表明：由于农村正规金融组织功能不全、农村合作金融明显缺位，农村金融抑制变得更加严重，农村非农产业和农民获得金融服务极为困难已成为普遍存在的现象。     

Measuring performance in the presence of stochastic demand for hospital services: an analysis of Belgian general care hospitals

Since demand for hospital services is subject to substantial variability, the relationship between uncertain demand, excess capacity, hospital costs and performance should be investigated thoroughly. In this paper a waiting time indicator to proxy hospital standby capacity is incorporated into a multi-product translog cost function for Belgian general care hospitals. The indicator is derived from queuing theory and improves on the conventionally used (inverse of the) occupancy rate. The multi-product stochastic frontier specification allows calculation of cost elasticities and marginal cost of seven hospital departments, as well as the degree of economies of scale and scope and enables identification of differences in efficiency.