公共资本与西部经济增长的相关性分析

通过东、中、西部之间比较以及对西部地区分共资本与经济增长的回归分析，得出公共资本与西部经济增长之间有显著的相关性。因此，为了配合西部大开发战略。应该加大公共投资力度，不但要扩大融资渠道，而且要提高公共投资的效率，加快西部经济发展的步伐。     

物质资本投资、人力资本积累与西部经济增长

西部经济增长是倍受关注的理论和实际问题,也是西部开发能否成功的关键。本文首先从分析西部经济增长的现状入手,论证物质资本投资与西部经济增长的弱相关性,然后以新经济增长理论为基础,分析人力资本积累替代物质资本的作用机制,最后提出西部地区人力资本积累的重点选择。 一、西部经济增长中的物质资本投资 现从我国三大地区经济增长的比较来说明西部经济增长中的物质资本投资问题,包括以下三个方面: 1、三大地区人均GDP的比较:人均GDP反映了一个地区的产出与人口的关系,西部地区本身的人口数要小于东部     

政府公共投资、地区经济增长与效应差异——基于我国省级面板数据的经验分析

本文构建一个包含民间经济、地方政府等主体在内的内生增长模型，考察了公共投资对经济增长的影响机制。理论分析表明，地区均衡经济增长率与公共政策之间的关系并不明确。基于我国省级面板数据进行经验分析，结果表明：公共投资在当期显著地促进了经济增长，而在滞后期却一致、显著地抑制了经济增长；在长期中，我国公共投资对经济增长的总体影响并不明显，但区域间存在较大差异，即东部地区公共投资显著抑制了经济增长，而中、西部地区的该效应却相反。     

政府公共投资与经济增长关系的研究

本文通过总量和动态生产函数对公共投资与经济增长之间的关系进行理论和实证分析,并得出结论:公共投资通过直接的资本形成和间接对私人投资的刺激,对经济增长具有明显的促进作用,二者呈现显著的正相关关系。     

FDI、政府公共支出、私人投资与经济增长——基于东部、中部和西部省际面板数据差异化分析

基于1991-2005年中国东部、中部和西部地区的省际面板数据,在内生经济增长理论框架下,比较分析了外国直接投资(FDI)、政府公共支出、私人投资对经济增长的影响。实证结果表明:由于不同类型资本对经济增长贡献率的差异导致中国东部、中部和西部地区的经济增长呈现收敛与扩散并存的格局。在任意特定地区里,不同类型资本贡献率也不同,各个地区应当因地制宜,积极引入适合本地区发展的资本积累途径,以促进经济快速和可持续发展。     

政府公共投资与经济增长关系的研究

本文通过总量和动态生产函数对公共投资与经济增长之间的关系进行理论和实证分析,并得出结论公共投资通过直接的资本形成和间接对私人投资的刺激,对经济增长具有明显的促进作用,二者呈现显著的正相关关系.     

公共投资与经济增长的相关分析--中国数据的计量检验

本文在现有文献研究的基础上,依据中国改革开放20多年的实际数据,运用内生增长理论构建计量经济模型,对公共物质资本投资、公共人力资本投资及R&D投资与经济增长的相关性进行了协整检验和格兰杰因果关系检验,结果发现:三种公共投资具有不同程度的正向经济增长效应,并且其促进经济增长的路径也不相同.公共物质资本投资主要是通过资本积累效应拉动经济增长,而公共人力资本投资及研发投资则是通过提高全要素生产率及外部性效应促进经济增长.并且,在不同的发展阶段上,三种公共投资与经济增长的因果关系及驱动机制又有所不同.针对实证结果得出结论及政策建议,进而为优化我国公共投资政策提供决策依据.     

我国人才资本投资与经济增长的关系研究

本文利用单位根检验、协整检验和向量误差修正模型等计量方法研究我国人才资本投资与经济增长之间的关系。研究结果发现:我国人才资本投资与经济增长之间存在着长期稳定的依赖关系;我国人才资本投资与经济增长在长期内互为Granger因果关系;我国经济增长在短期内是人才资本投资的Granger因果关系,但是,我国人才资本投资在短期内不是经济增长的Granger因果关系。     

外商直接投资、国内资本与经济增长的关系研究

随着经济发展,我国经济实力在不断增强。与此同时,我国利用外商直接投资的规模也在不断扩大。研究外商直接投资、国内资本与我国经济增长之间的动态关系非常有意义。本文利用1983-2018年时间序列数据对外商直接投资、国内资本与中国经济增长的关系进行var模型的实证研究,结果表明:外商直接投资和国内资本对中国经济增长都具有直接的正效应;国内投资对经济增长波动的影响要大于外商直接投资;长期来看,外商直接投资对国内资本具有"挤出"效应。     

西部地区经济可持续发展的关键因素分析

本文利用1978-2010年我国西部地区12个省市区的统计数据,测算了我国西部地区的资本、劳动力和TFP对经济增长的贡献率。结果显示:我国西部地区的经济增长主要源于资本投入,由于资本投入对经济增长的贡献太大,因此TFP呈现相对平稳下降趋势,TFP对经济增长的作用还不是很明显。本文又进一步分析了投资、劳动力及产业转移对西部地区经济可持续发展的关键作用,提出了西部地区实现经济可持续发展的政策建议。     

自动顶空-气相色谱法测定胶囊中9种残留溶剂

[目的]建立自动顶空-气相色谱法测定胶囊中9种残留溶剂的分析方法。[方法]准确称取样品于顶空瓶中,加入N,N二甲基乙酰胺,加盖密封,放入自动顶空进样器,供气相色谱分析,外标法定量。对不同极性色谱柱进行选择性实验,最终采用DB-624毛细管柱和氢火焰离子化检测器测定,同时对平衡温度和平衡时间等顶空条件以及色谱条件进行优化。[结果]9种溶剂在各自的浓度范围内呈良好的线性关系,相关系数为0.9847-9986,平均回收率为84%-105%,相对标准偏差为0.29%-1.72%。[结论]该方法简便、快速、灵敏、准确,适合胶囊中9种残留溶剂的测定。     

China Ranked the 7th in Global Influence Survey

The results of the Annual Global Public Opinion Survey were released by the British Broadcasting Company （BBC） on April 2,2008,the combination of 7,457 public opinion polls in 34 countries,gave Germany and Japan the No.1 and No.2 spots,respectively, while the last four went to North Korea, Pakistan,Israel,Iran.     

Quick decisions tend to reinforce self‐interest choices among MBA students: The direct and moderating effects of temporal constraint and situational factors in ethical decision making

Employees face increasingly time‐pressured operational environments. Using theory from Reynolds' ( 2006 ) neurocognitive model of ethical decision making, we explore how temporal constraint, consequence framing, and organizational norms affect self‐interested decision making in business. Conducting three experimental manipulations with a sample of MBA students, we found the following: First, consistent with previous studies, high time pressure promotes self‐interested intentions. Second, unethical framing encourages self‐interested intentions, though this relationship is unaffected by the presence of time pressure. Third, unethical organizational norms encourage group‐interested intentions. Lastly, however, when these same norms are experienced under high time pressure, individuals display self‐interested intentions. Copyright © 2016 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Principles involving marketing policies: An empirical assessment

We examined nine marketing textbooks, published since 1927, to see if they contained useful marketing principles. Four doctoral students found 566 normative statements about pricing, product, place, or promotion in these texts. None of these statements were supported by empirical evidence. Four raters agreed on only twenty of these 566 statements as providing meaningful principles. Twenty marketing professors rated whether the twenty meaningful principles were correct, supported by empirical evidence, useful, or surprising. None met all the criteria. Nine were judged to be nearly as correct when their wording was reversed.The authors thank the many people who commented on early drafts, including Eileen Bridges, Fred Collopy, Douglas Dalrymple, Alan Dubinsky, Andrew Ehrenberg, Jonathan Freeman, Raymond Hubbard, William Perreault, William Ross, Steven Schnaars, and Gerald Zaltman. Jennifer L. Armstrong, Gina Bloom, and Phan Lam provided editorial assistance.     

Vinyl record: a cultural icon

In this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as turntables, speakers, mixers, and rituals of object care. Additionally, these engagements are complimented by a mediation process which emplaces the vinyl historically, culturally, spatially, and also politically, especially in the context of digitalization. This relational process means that both the material affordances and entanglements of vinyl allow us to feel, handle, experience, project, and share its iconicity. The materially mediated meanings of vinyl enabled it to retain currency in independent and collector’s markets and thus resist the planned obsolescence and eventually attain the status of celebrity commodity with totemic power in music communities. This performative aspect of vinyl markets also means that consumers read closely the signals and symbols regarding vinyl’s status, as its various user groups and champions try to interpret its future, protect, or challenge its current position. Vinyl’s future, and the larger expansion of pressing plants and innovative turntable production around it, largely depend on processes of cultural and status mobility. In the current phase of market expansion, vinyl’s status might be challenged by its own success. Neither a fashion cycle phenomenon, nor simple market conditions explain vinyl’s longevity. Rather, cultural contextualization of vinyl as thing and commodity is crucial for avoiding symbolic pollution and retaining sacred aura.     

Factors Associated with Opinion Seeking

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between opinion seeking and cultural values and individual characteristics in the context of electronic products by surveying cosmopolitan adults of 15 nationalities, namely, American, Australian, British, Dutch, Filipino, German, Hong Konger, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Malaysian, New Zealander, Singaporean, Swedish, and Thai. It finds (i) positive correlation between opinion seeking and power distance, category knowledge, category purchase intention, category innovativeness, opinion giving, market maven, brand loyalty, and susceptibility to interpersonal influence, (ii) negative correlation between opinion seeking and the masculinity and uncertainty avoidance cultural dimensions, category ownership, self-esteem, education, and age, and (iii) no correlation between opinion seeking and individualism, long-term orientation, and risk taking. It then discusses the managerial implications of the findings.     

Two Contrasting Phenomena in Textile Exports

As the two traditional markets for China＇s tex- tile and clothing exports, the U.S. and Europe have recently shown a huge contrast.     

Who Invests in the Least Developed Countries?

Abstract

Africa is a giant market with a population of Europe and Japan combined, and highly diversified with respect to culture, natural resources, economic development, and political regimes. Yet, the continent is largely ignored with respect to research on the multinational activities of U.S. firms. In this paper, we provide the first evidence regarding the operating characteristics of U.S. firms that operate in Africa. We find that firms with operations in Africa are larger, more diversified, and more profitable than a matched control sample of multinational firms. This paper also shows that technology firms, manufacturing firms, and mining firms dominate the rest of companies operating in Africa. Certain geographical regions in Africa also seem to attract more companies than others, with Southern Africa being the most preferred region, while Central Africa is the least preferred. Finally, when a multinational firm invests in a specific country in Africa, it tends to do so in several business sectors.     

Utility of Ethical Frameworks in Determining Behavioral Intention: A Comparison of the U.S. and Russia

Using Reidenbach and Robin‘s ( Journal of Business Ethics 7, 871–879, 1988) multi-criteria ethics instrument, we carried out the first empirical test of Robertson and Crittenden‘s (Strategic Management Journal 24, 385–392, 2003) cross-cultural map of moral philosophies to examine what ethical criteria guide business people in Russia and the U.S. in their intention to behave. Competing divergence and convergence hypotheses were advanced. Our results support a convergence hypothesis, and reveal a common emphasis on relativism. Americans are also influenced by the justice criterion while Russians tend to emphasize utilitarianism. Rafik I. Beekun (Ph.D., the University of Texas at Austin) is Professor of Management and Strategy in the Managerial Sciences Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. His current research focuses on business ethics, national cultures, and the link between management and spirituality. He has published in such journals as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics and Decision Sciences. Correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to him: MGRS 28, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557–0206. James Westerman is an Associate Professor of Management at Appalachian State University. He received his Ph.D. in management from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include person-organization fit, employee ethics, compensation, and selection. Jamal Barghouti (B.Sc., MBA, Ph.D Management) is currently Advisor on Petroleum Affairs, H.H. Ruler’s Court, Dubai. He is also a lecturer at local universities including Dubai University College in human resources management, international business, organizational behavior and business communication. He has about 35 years of experience in the oil industry in the U.S.A., U.K., Russia, and the Middle East.