The Impact of Demographics on Policy Outcomes Under Varying Institutional Frameworks

This paper examines the impact that demographics have on policy outcomes. The impact that aldermanic ward-level demographics have on the number of liquor licenses is measured in two US cities. In one city there is a great deal of direct resident involvement in the issuance process, while in the other city, issuance decisions are handled by elected representatives. This research does find that demographics have a significant impact on policy outcomes. However, the paper does not find a significant difference in outcomes between decisions made by elected representatives and those made by the community.     

热钱流入对中国经济的影响及其对策

人民币升值预期和国内房地产、股市价格上涨预期使得国(境)外热钱大量流入中国,对中国的经济产生了严重的负面效应,干扰了中国货币政策的有效性,也威胁到中国的金融安全。本文界定了热钱的概念和特性,分析了国(境)外热钱进入中国的动机及其对中国经济的影响,提出了应对热钱异常流入的对策建议。     

基于共生理论的集群企业迁移对合作营销的影响——以浙江永康五金产业集群为例

浙江经济是以企业集群为主体的特色区域经济。近年来,随着集群的发展,群内企业纷纷选择外迁以实现更进一步的扩张。目前已有不少学者对集群企业迁移的现象进行了研究,但鲜有从合作共生的视角进行的研究。借鉴合作共生理论,提炼了迁移影响合作营销的4个维度,即依存度、信任度、贡献度、沟通度。在对永康五金集群企业实地调查的基础上,构建了迁移对合作营销的影响模型。     

固原上黄村农业生态经济系统建设示范总结

固原上黄村农业生态经济系统建设示范研究始于1983年,目的在于探索黄土丘陵区建立良性农业生态经济系统的途径与技术。现经8年试验,系统的结构得到了进一步改善,生态经济效益得到了显著提高。     

商誉本质研究综述

一百多年来,会计理论界在商誉本质研究方面进行了诸多卓有成效的探索,提出了多种不同的观点,他们的研究主要沿着商誉构成要素、直接计量以及间接计量三方面进行,但并没有取得根本性的突破。进一步研究首先必须明确商誉的定位,在此基础上再应用相关理论论证商誉的本质问题。     

房地产"新政"后西部地区房价的分析与预测

2005年被称为我国房地产市场的政策年,中央政府启动了全面调控房地产供给与需求的房地产新政,而且不断出台新的政策,直到2007年.这些新政策对各地区的房地产市场造成了程度不一的影响.本文在分析西部地区房地产市场的现状和特点的基础上,力图揭示新政对西部地区房地产市场的影响,预测西部地区房地产价格的未来走势.     

我国企业信息化现状与改革措施

我国企业在信息化进程取得了一定的成绩,但仍存在问题,在此基础上,应明确我国企业信息化的总体发展思路,加速我国企业信息化的建设。     

From economic stagnation to systemic fragility?

Advanced economies are in a rut of slow growth. Growth in emerging economies has also slowed. Explanations are meager and policies have not worked or have made problems worse. The Trump administration of hard-line billionaires will likely exacerbate problems. Jack Rasmus’s book Systemic Fragility in the Global Economy offers a penetrating analysis of economic stagnation in advanced economies by providing a sustained and systemic focus on the role of finance, an analysis that probes further than mainstream economic analysis. Rasmus has made a signal contribution to contemporary economics and provided a vitally important X-ray of the political economy of stagnation.     

徐霞客对永州风景名胜的旅游考察—纪念徐霞客逝世360周年

徐霞客历尽艰难险阻,对永州地区的风景名胜进行了考察,热情赞美了永州地区山水风光和人文胜迹,对永州现代旅游开发富有启示作用。     

高校辅导员胜任力研究述评

目前我国高校辅导员胜任力的研究主要集中在三个方面,即胜任力维度划分、胜任力模型的构建和胜任力理论的应用。研究已经取得了一定成果,但有待进一步深化,需要在高校辅导员胜任力模型的开发和基于胜任力模型的高校辅导员人力资源管理实证研究等方面取得更大进展。     

Retirement plan technology delivers big benefits to small business

Retirement plan technology has made it possible for small businesses to be "competitive" in the benefits they offer employees. Small firms that have upgraded their plans have found they are able to offer programs that are less expensive for them and richer for their employees. Integration and Web-based technology have also facilitated employees' retirement planning.     

中国民营企业对外投资30年

当前,民营经济已经发展成为经济舞台上一股活跃而不可忽视的力量。民营经济"走出去"取得的巨大进展,蕴含着几代民营企业家的奋斗历程,也伴随着30年来国际国内环境的深刻变革。随着实力的壮大,越来越多的民营企业适应经济全球化潮流,对外投资势头越来越猛,取得了积极进展。与此同时,也给新时期支持民营企业参与国际竞争的政策环境提出了新要求。     

Do Gatt Rules Help Governments Make Domestic Commitments?

We investigate empirically whether GATT rules may have helped the US government make trade policy commitments to its private sector. We study choices under two distinct environments. One environment is the determination of sectoral exclusions in the Tokyo Round of GATT negotiations. The other is the determination of tariff responses under GATT's escape clause. In each environment the US government was faced with a similar decision, but only in the former environment did GATT rules serve as a potential commitment device. Comparing decisions made across these two environments, we find evidence that GATT rules did help the US government make domestic trade policy commitments that it could not have made in the absence of these rules.     

Comparison of alternative methods of updating Input-Output tables: A note

Various methods for updating Input-Output tables have been proposed and comparisons have been made on statistical bases. In this note we show on theoretical bases that several linear programming formulations are not suitable to this problem, since a large proportion of the resulting coefficients assume arbitrarily preset values.     

我国绿色公共投资的宏观效率分析

研究了我国绿色公共投资宏观效率,实证分析了我国绿色公共投资的产出效率、规模效率和结构效率,并对宏观效率缺失情况和增减变化做出初步评价。实证分析表明,我国绿色公共投资对经济增长有显著贡献,但产出弹性小于非绿色公共投资的产出弹性;现阶段我国最优的绿色公共投资规模应该占GDP的8.41%;与国际上其他国家的资源配置效率比较,我国绿色公共投资结构效率较低。     

美国、欧盟和日本生物技术产业政策研究

文章分析研究了美国、欧盟和日本的生物技术产业发展进程、所取得的成就,特别是三国为鼓励和推动其生物技术产业发展所制定和实施的产业政策。其研究可为我国政府制定相关产业发展政策提供借鉴和参考依据。     

Environmental Health Risks and Tradable Health Risk Permits

Health risk permits are suggested as an instrument for the systematic management of all health-relevant pollutants. These permits are denominated in statistical deaths due to pollution and have to be acquired by firms which emit pollutants inimical to health. They have two advantages: First, they guarantee that a clear decision about the acceptable number of statistical deaths due to pollution is made. Second, health risk permits are able to realize any level of health risk thus chosen in an efficient way. However, in practice some compromises have to be made: The health risk function relating emissions to health risk must employ some simplifying assumptions and complementary regulation is needed to make health risk permits feasible and acceptable. Furthermore, there are other aims of environmental policy besides the preservation of human health, such as climate control and conservation, for which health risk permits are of no use.     

Does income drive saving?: Exogeneity testing applied to East Asian Data

Many economic models have been developed which have had as their primary goal the elucidation and accurate prediction of economic growth patterns. In these models we frequently discover that many of the variables which determine growth are themselves determined by growth. Saving (investment) is one such variable. In the process of estimating a model, a commitment as to the casual ordering of variables must be made. The causal ordering is typically made on a priori grounds. In this paper I give the data themselves a chance to speak to the issue of whether income drives saving (investment) or vice versa within the context of a simple, but familiar bivariate saving-income model.     

Maximization,replication, and the economic rationality of positive economic science

This paper argues that gross, short-term capital mobility is excessive, but that long-term net capital mobility remains low. This combination of extremely high gross, but low net capital mobility can create great difficulties in achieving full employment. However, these difficulties fundamentally depend on the political structure and the choices made in individual nations; they do not result from technological advances, such as innovations in computers and communication. Faced with short-term capital mobility, groups and classes within nations have made political choices that hinder the ability of the nation to reach full employment. But other choices can be made.Nations can adopt political structures and rules of the game that reduce the constraints to achieving full employment.     

LABELLING CHARACTERISTICS AND DEMAND FOR RETAIL GROCERY PRODUCTS IN AUSTRALIA*

This paper examines whether labelling characteristics affect short‐run demand for manufactured foods in Australia. We estimate the effect of common labelling characteristics on demand using data from 92 brands in 12 product categories from major supermarket stores across Australia over the period 2002 to 2005. We find that certain characteristics – such as whether the product is made from recycled materials, certified as being Australian‐made, is a private label product, is health‐conscious or supports a charity – have a positive effect on demand. However, being an environmentally‐friendly good had a negative impact on demand as did products which offer the chance to win a prize and uncertified Australian‐made goods.