The curse of natural resources in the transition economies*

The curse of natural resources is a well‐documented phenomenon for developing countries. Economies that are richly endowed with natural resources tend to grow slowly. Among the transition economies of the former ‘Eastern Bloc’, a similar pattern can be observed. This paper shows that a large part of the variation in growth rates among the transition economies can be attributed to the curse of natural resources. After controlling for numerous other factors, there is still a strong negative correlation between natural resource abundance and economic growth. Among the transition economies the prime reasons for the curse of natural resources were corruption and a neglect of basic education. In order to overcome the curse of natural resources and move to a sustainable path of development, the resource abundant transition countries should fight corruption and ensure that their resource revenues are invested in human capital or the preservation of natural capital.     

Regionalization, public spending and growth: a stylized model dealing with ‘predatory states’

In this paper, a micro-founded model analyzing the effects of ‘regionalization’ on economic activity is developed. It shows that the spatial division of public competencies can have an impact on the growth rate via the efficiency of governmental choices: initially advantageous for weak levels, decentralization (/reduction of regional size) becomes limited due to the risk of underestimation of the real profitability of public expenditure by local governments (non-internalized cross-border effects). In accordance with the theory, a transversal estimation for a sample of 51 countries for the 1990s establishes a ‘bell-shaped’ relation between indicators of regionalization and the quality of governance.     

人本自觉与学术独立--论青年王国维的个体生命意识

该文以青年王国维对个体生命意义的探寻为轴心，剖析其生存痛苦的心理动因和学术研究的价值定势，试图表明：青年王国维是站在近代人文主义的立场审视生命存在和生存价值，他的文哲之学是他个体生命探索的学术延伸和诗性观照，他对现代学人和现代学术应达到的精神境界有着超越时代与民族的见解。故，青年王国维是中国20世纪初人本自觉的先驱和学术独立的先锋。     

腐败与国际直接投资关系研究综述

腐败与FDI关系研究是制度与经济增长关系研究的一个新兴分支,也是近年来新制度经济学和国际投资理论研究的前沿问题.目前学术界的研究主要围绕四个方面进行:腐败对国际资本流动类型的影响;东道国腐败对FDI总量的影响;东道国腐败对FDI构成的影响;东道国和投资国腐败程度差异对FDI的影响,且实证研究的结果一般支持腐败对FDI流入的负效应.对已有的研究成果进行梳理和总结,有助于后续的相关研究.     

挪用公款罪行为方式研究

分析了公款挪用行为的犯罪化演进过程,指出了现行挪用公款罪罪状模式的缺陷,重构了挪用公款罪的罪状模式。     

论政府信用失缺及其解决措施

从寻租的角度,主要运用政府官员和民众之间所形成的囚犯困境博弈,分析政府官员腐败产生的机制及原因,并提出相应的解决措施。     

Representation and Educational Background of European Economists in Top Journals of Economics

We assess the contribution of European authors to 10 topjournals of economics from 1980 to 1998. Despite efforts on the European Union and national levels topromote academic excellence, European authors still play a minor role in top journals. Examining the development overtime we find little evidence for an increasing share of European contributions. Particular attention has been paidto the educational background of European authors. There is still a segmentation of academic education alonglanguage barriers in continental Europe. However, a considerable proportion of European authors has received a PhD from the US.     

Sex role socialization and perceptions of student academic dishonesty by male and female accounting faculty

We examine differences between male and female accounting faculty members’ perceptions of academic dishonesty and their uses of controls to prevent academically dishonest behaviour. We use socialization concepts to motivate our examination of these differences. Specifically, we find that females generally perceive academic dishonesty to be a more significant problem than do males, females see individual incidences of academic dishonesty as more frequent and more significant than do males, and female academics report they exercise controls to prevent academic dishonesty more frequently than do male academics. These findings are consistent with differential sex role socialization for women and men. We also find that male and female accounting academics’ perceptions converge with professional training and teaching experience, suggesting moderating impacts of professional and/or organizational socialization on perceptions of academic dishonesty. Lastly, we document some differences in how male and female accounting academics respond to known incidences of academically dishonest behaviour.     

Logics,Leaders, Lab Coats: A Multi‐Level Study on How Institutional Logics are Linked to Entrepreneurial Intentions in Academia

Situated in the context of academia, this study integrates ideas from institutional theory, person‐environment fit theory and leadership research to conceptualize and examine the cross‐level link between the organizational‐level institutional logic of research commercialization and the entrepreneurial intentions of researchers. Multi‐level analyses based on a sample of 254 researchers working for 85 research group leaders in 49 German research institutes reveal that two distinct attributes of research group leaders – that is, their track records of entrepreneurial behaviour and their entrepreneurial intentions – play a significant role in transmitting the organizational‐level logic to the individual level. We also observe a complementary interaction between organizational‐level commercialization logic and the entrepreneurial track records of leaders. We discuss how these findings advance our understanding of science commercialization through academic entrepreneurship and how they inform institutional theory and theory development in other domains of entrepreneurship research.     

项目式教学:法学本科人才培养的新路径

当前法学本科人才培养同质化严重,脱离岗位实际,学生实践能力和创新能力较差。项目式教学有别于传统教学模式,其环节包括通过岗位调研制定项目列表;将项目内容转化为教学内容;确定项目课程;制定专业课程体系等四个方面。项目式教学以工作岗位技能为基础,注重理论和实践的有机结合,激发学生的学习兴趣和创新能力,培养学生独立与合作完成工作的能力,便于有效评价教学目标是否达到,突破了传统教学模式的局限,为法学本科人才培养提供了一条新的途径。