浅析Apple Pay在华发展阻碍及其未来使用场景探究

近日,苹果公司推出Apple Pay夏日促销补贴活动,但其收效甚微。自Apple Pay进入中国以来,已有近一年半的工夫,而各种原因导致其在第三方移动支付市场中所占份额连1%都未到。但从最近苹果公司对Apple Pay的推广举措可以看出,Apple Pay正在探寻发展城市交通服务的消费使用场景。     

非语言交际对利玛窦在华传教的影响

明末清初时期,利玛窦与中国士大夫的交往是其在华传教活动的重要组成部分,其中非语言因素在其成功交际中起着重要的作用。利玛窦利用服饰的变化表明自己的身份和立场,借用西洋器物传播西方先进的科技文明,通过著书立说的形式广结权贵,施展个人魅力笼络人心。利玛窦与中国士大夫阶层的紧密互动为其在中国传教奠定了基础并开创了新的格局。     

中国经济奇迹原因探析——全球视野中的中国道路

中国改革开放以来的经济奇迹震撼了世界,其根本原因在于：中国不相信任何教条,从国情出发走出了一条适合自己的现代化道路——中国特色社会主义道路.中国特色社会主义制度是中国奇迹的根本保障.新中国前30年的经济建设成就则为后来的经济起飞奠定了雄厚的物质基础.     

Exchange rate volatility and its impact on the transaction costs of covered interest rate parity

This paper provides empirical evidence on the linkage between foreign exchange market volatility and daily 90-day covered interest rate parity (CIP) conditions of the three major exchange rates against the US dollar (US$). Markov regime shifting models were utilized to generate time series of volatility regime probabilities and these were used to explain the first and second moments of the daily deviations from and the transaction cost bands around the covered parity conditions. We find a significant positive relationship between the deviations and the regime probabilities, indicating an increasing probability of higher volatility state being associated with rising deviations (both first and second moments) from the parity condition. Similar positive relationship is found for the transaction bands. Rising (falling) probabilities of high (low) volatility regimes increased the first and second moments of the bands. Furthermore, we find a higher volatility state combined with a US$ depreciation is associated with significantly higher volatility in the daily deviations than an appreciation. Also, US$ depreciation is associated with widening transaction bands. This suggests that the level of market uncertainty was higher when the US$ was depreciating.     

Advertising, Its Determinants, and Market Structure

This study derives a formal model of firm advertising behavior and applies it to the industry level to figure out the relationship between advertising and market structure. The firm advertising model shows that both consumer preference andfirm-specific advertising competence jointly determineprofit-maximizing advertising intensity. At the industry level, advertising intensity is represented multiplicatively by consumer preference and a measure of market structure, which reflects the joint distribution of the levels of advertising competence and market shares among firms. The new market structure measure suggests that those single-dimensional measures of market structure such as seller concentration and the Herfindahl index are inadequate in explaining interindustry differences in advertising intensity, and that the long-debated advertising-concentration relationship differs depending primarily on the appropriability of advertising. An empirical analysis of 426 five-digit Korean manufacturing industries shows that an inverted U-shaped relationship between the Herfindahl index and industry advertising intensity is observed for consumer goods industries but a lazy J-shaped relationship for producer goods industries.     

Institutionalism and New Trade Theory: Rethinking Comparative Advantage and Trade Policy

Gomory and Baumol (2000), and Samuelson (2004) have raised concerns about international trade’s future impact on U.S. national income. The focus is how globalization may affect the size and distribution across countries of gains from trade. Though their analysis is developed using a pure trade theoretical framework, it has strands in common with institutionalist thinking. Their findings spotlight the need for a new U.S. trade policy agenda aimed at maximizing the U.S. share of gains from trade, and complementing conventional Keynesian open economy macroeconomic analysis.     

旅游业中的不和谐因素与和谐发展

旅游业的发展不可避免地对自然、社会、文化等都带来一定的影响,造成某些方面的不和谐。要解决旅游业发展中人与自然之间、人与人之间、文化与文化之间的不和谐,需推广生态旅游,建立农民利益保障机制,实现文化之间的和谐发展。     

聚集外部性的非对称性承受与人口过度集中

由于农民工工资与城市生活成本的非相关性、农民工和应届大学毕业生对城市病的不敏感性、以及大城市居民中劳动人口数量很大的迁移成本等问题的存在,大城市工人部分丧失了向厂商索取较高名义工资以补偿其较高生活成本的能力。此时,厂商享受着大城市较高的聚集经济带来的高效率,却不用对工人较高生活成本进行完全补偿。这种厂商和工人承受聚集外部性的非对称性,必然引发生产与人口在大城市过度集中问题。     

论人民币内外价值偏离

近几年来,人民币同时面临对外升值和对内贬值的双向压力。本文以“一价定律”为理论视角,分析了人民币内外价值偏离的表现及其危害,并从涉外经济政策层面探讨了内外价值偏离的深层原因,进而提出纠正人民币内外价值偏离的对策性建议。