近代天津堂会经营模式探析

天津近代的堂会属于市场规则主导下的纯粹的经营活动:演员在堂会演出中不仅获得了丰厚的经济回报,而且借名角同台演出切磋技艺提高了表演水平;堂会主人借堂会的影响力扩大了声望、提高了人气;观众则欣赏到了高水平的演出.堂会对于天津演出市场在近代的形成与发展起到了一定的促进作用.但由于堂会主办者的特殊地位与身份,他们在催生与扩大堂会演出市场的同时,也在一定程度上伤害了艺人和艺术.     

The surprising benefits of a parallel universe

Suppose that the successful completion of a project requires performing n tasks, each of which has a probability of success p. The paper establishes under what conditions it may be profitable to engage in parallel multi‐tasking, i.e. tackling each task by following two independent routes. It is found that for ?n>1 parallel multi‐tasking is profitable for a wide range of parameters when costs are linear and is always profitable for convex costs. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

湖南省旅行社网站营销功能现状分析

在网络经济时代,更新市场营销观念,是旅行社提升自身素质、提高竞争力的必然选择。本文以19家旅游社为例,分析了湖南省旅行社网站及其网站营销功能现状。指出了当前网站营销功能建设中存在的一些问题,并提出几点建议。     

ASSESSING THE ASSESSMENT OR,THE RAE AND THE OPTIMAL ORGANIZATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH

The UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is assessed as an incentive scheme affecting the allocation of research talent of varying ‘quality’ across departments. The ‘centres of excellence’ policy implicitly pursued through the RAE is an optimal allocation strategy only if all departments in all disciplines are of the generalist variety, i.e. each pursues a research path through all its stages. Conversely, the RAE‐induced research allocation minimizes efficiency if applied to specialist departments, when resources are concentrated on one specific research obstacle. It is argued that the RAE should not take the organization of University research as exogenous, but rather should encourage specialization. All results are obtained by applying to University research concepts and solutions borrowed from the mathematical theory of systems reliability.     

证券公司股权结构与风险承担行为研究——基于民间资本进入的视角

通过追溯中国上市证券公司的实际控制人和股权性质,本文将17家中国上市证券公司分为国有上市证券公司和民营上市证券公司,并研究它们的股权结构与风险承担之间的关系.通过实证研究发现,实际控制人的性质对风险承担并无显著影响,而实际控制人的控制权比例与风险承担负相关,即控制权越大,风险承担越低.这表明了可以鼓励民间资本进入证券公司,适当地提高其控制权比例,降低证券公司的风险承担.     

浅谈软土地基基础设计方法

通过对软土地基的分析,阐述了在地基基础设计中如何选择软土地基处理的方法。     

略论墨学与儒学消费思想之异同

在墨家与儒家消费思想中，墨家的节用、节葬、非乐思想，既与生产的动态过程相联系，又以劳动财富观为出发点，因此，墨家的消费观与儒家鄙视劳动的等级消费观形成鲜明而尖锐的对立；但儒家的“知足”说、“寡欲”论、崇俭思想以及“用不伤义”的消费标准，则和墨家的节用思想有着某种相通之处。从两者的比较中可以看到，两个学派因经济地位的不同而存在着思想分歧，但因二者处于同一历史时期，所以两个学派的消费理念也就具有一定的相近性和互补性。     

Mixed duopoly, inefficiency, and public ownership

If a publicly-owned firm has a higher marginal cost than a private firm, partial public ownership may be welfare-improving, if the public firm acts is Stackelberg leader. If the private firm's marginal cost is private information a simple transfer function is truth-eliciting. If the stock market is efficient, the cost of renationalization is “small”.     

Leviathan: Revenue-maximizer or glory-seeker?

We argue that the Hobbesian assumption of glory-seeking behavior, especially when applied to holders of high office, is both more realistic and has greater predictive power than Brennan and Buchanan's hypothesis of revenue-maximization. Whereas traditional public finance theory sees the sovereign as a benign agent without an objective of his own and Brennan and Buchanan endow him with the objective of revenue maximization, Hobbes's political construct envisages a sovereign-principal who devises rules and incentives to induce his subjects-agents to contribute to his own preservation and glory. We examine the implications of this Copernican revolution in public finance theory by referring to Brennan and Buchanan's key claim that the Leviathan ought to be constrained by a fiscal constitution. We argue that the interplay of the pursuit glory and the concern for self-preservation implies that the government cannot be bound by rules set by citizens.