Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection: Implications for Discount Window Stigma

I study the implications for central bank discount window stigma of a workhorse model of adverse selection in financial markets. In the model, firms (banks) need to borrow to finance a productive project. There is limited liability and firms have private information about their ability to repay their debts, which gives rise to the possibility of adverse selection. The central bank can ameliorate the impact of adverse selection by lending to firms. Discount window borrowing is observable and it may be taken as a signal of firms' credit worthiness. Under some conditions, firms borrowing from the discount window may pay higher interest rates to borrow in the market, a phenomenon often associated with the presence of stigma. I discuss these and other outcomes in detail and what they suggest about the relevance of stigma as an empirical phenomenon.     

Believing in employment discrimination: The case of Forrest Mims,Scientific American,and title VII protection

This article reviews the law regarding Title VII employment discrimination protection from religious discrimination. The issues surrounding the principal legal protection in this regard are explored in the context of a recent controversial case in which an author, Forrest Mims, was not hired as a regular contributor forScientific American magazine, ostensibly because of his belief in the theory of creation over the theory of evolution. The definition of what constitutes a protected religious belief or practice is seen to have expanded over time. However, a belief in creationism is not necessarily seen as being tantamount to a religious belief under present legal interpretation of Title VII. The implications of this finding for future needed Title VII revision are discussed.     

湿地公园规划的生态服务功能影响预评价

鉴于湿地生态系统的特殊性和敏感性,科学地保护和利用湿地资源、合理地进行湿地利用规划,一直是相关学者所关注的问题;以安徽省北部淮河三汊河湿地为例,从水文调节、大气调节、水体净化、物质生产、文化功能、提供生境和生物多样性价值等方面采用替代成本法、恢复成本法、市场价格法和影子工程法对湿地生态服务价值进行经济核算;分别以生态服务功能价值的理论值(2152.9万元)和现状值(1982.7万元)为参考标准,进行湿地公园规划对湿地生态影响的比较分析,预评价湿地公园规划后的生态服务功能价值为2447.2万元,较理论值和现状值都高;在各项服务功能中,除物质生产功能影响为负值外,其它各项值均为正值,在水文调节、水体净化和文化功能方面变化值较大,因而,从生态服务功能角度考虑,可以认为公园规划具备合理性和可行性。     

道家的主体性思想初探

随着科学技术的飞速发展和现代化进程的日益加快,人的主体性问题遇到了前所未有的质疑和挑战,人到底应当高扬主体性还是消解主体性?主体性能够消解吗?本文探讨了道家的主体性思想并分析了这一思想的缺陷及现实意义。     

试论我国湿地生态效益补偿制度框架构建

湿地是物种多样、资源丰富的生态系统,同时兼具经济、生态和社会三大价值。湿地生态效益补偿制度的建立,是稳定湿地周边经济,保障湿地有效保护和可持续发展的重要制度。在分析阐述我国湿地生态效益补偿制度建立的目的、原则的基础上,进一步确立了我国湿地生态效益补偿制度涉及的相关利益者和主客体,探讨了建立湿地生态效益补偿制度的补偿标准、补偿手段,初步构建了我国湿地生态效益补偿制度的补偿框架。     

政府公职人员经济人性边界界定与启示

政府公职人员是特殊经济人,并且从"经济人"角度、从历史性角度、从社会契约论角度、从初始社会分工及分工发展过程角度看,政府公职人员经济人性应有必要的边界。其经济人性发挥应符合作用空间的"非市场性"、经济人性范围的日趋"紧缩性"、经济人性目标满足渠道的"单一性"及较强的"社会性"这些内在规律。把握这些规律,可有效地建立针对政府公职人员的约束机制和非市场性的竞争机制,还可有效地促进民主发展,这对提升基本公共服务综合绩效及构建和谐社会都具有重要意义。     

Disciplining: A question of ethics?

The importance of evaluating a discipline system from an ethical perspective is considered. Disciplinary practices in contemporary organizations are frequently characterized by managers having to choose from among alternative courses of corrective action. Since the selected alternative may have serious consequences for the individuals involved, its rightness or wrongness is of concern. The pattern of these choices reflects the overall disciplinary practice of the organization, and is an issue that warrants attention from an ethical perspective. Basic schools of thought that influence contemporary discipline practices are discussed and suggestions are made for conducting an evaluation of the ethical nature of a discipline system.     

上海城市发展中的湿地保护与可持续利用

认为湿地对上海的土地供给、水源补充、生物多样性保护和生态服务具有的重要价值,湿地是上海城市发展的重要战略资源;分析了上海市保护和利用湿地的现状和存在的问题;从泥沙利用、保护区调整、湿地科学利用等方面就上海实现湿地保护和利用协调发展进行了思考;最后从协调机制、功能分区、协调围垦和保护、规范利用、控制污染、法律保障和信息共享等方面提出了促进上海实现湿地保护和利用协调发展的政策建议.     

论企业的非线性性质

企业作为一个系统,其关键特征是系统的非线性。我们以Adam Smith的大头针工厂作为简单的示例,从个体的生产函数推导出一个非简单加总的总体生产函数,从知识的角度不失一般性地解释了企业非线性性质的来源,并对已有的关于企业性质的论述做了简单的评论。     

流动性过剩、中长期贷款与银行稳定性

近年来,我国商业银行出现了流动性过剩现象,在这样的背景下,商业银行依靠提高中长期贷款来获得超额收益,但是中长期贷款增加可能导致固定资产投资过热.调整存款准备金率可以直接影响新增短期贷款的规模,但对新增中长期贷款规模不能产生明显的影响.同时,流动性过剩导致了中长期贷款规模的快速增长,可能降低银行稳定性.