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本期话题:北京市交通委发布消息,禁止手机叫车软件私自设置"小费"等加价功能。你怎么看?你愿意多花多少钱叫到一辆出租车?     

China’s Stone Market

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Alan Rugman’s methodology

This paper argues that the intellectual contribution of Alan Rugman reflects his distinctive research methodology. Alan Rugman trained as an economist, and relied heavily on economic principles throughout his work. He believed that one good theory was sufficient for IB studies, and that theory, he maintained, was internalisation theory. He rejected theoretical pluralism, and believed that IB suffered from a surfeit of theories. Alan was a positivist. The test of a good theory was that it led to clear predictions which were corroborated by empirical evidence. Many IB theories, Alan believed, were weak; their proliferation sowed confusion and they needed to be refuted.Alan’s interpretation of internalisation was, however, unconventional in some respects. He played down the trade-offs presented in Coase’s original work, and substituted heuristics in their place. Instead of analysing internalisation as a context-specific choice between alternative contractual arrangements, he presented it as a strategic imperative for firms possessing strong knowledge advantages. His heuristics did not apply to every possible case, but in Alan’s view they applied in the great majority of cases and were therefore a basis for management action.     

Italy’s fiscal crisis

Italy is presently one of the most vulnerable economies in the eurozone. Over the past twenty years it has failed to adapt to increasing global competition and its public finances have deteriorated dramatically. Even with huge fi scal support from the other members of the eurozone, Italy’s perspectives look rather bleak. How did this situation come about? Did Italy’s EMU membership make things worse?     

Jared Jackson’s Dilemma

Whether to use privileged information as a basis for a decision to sell stock is the central issue in thiscase. A conflict between a stockbrokers perceived obligations to maximize clients stock values and protect their investments (fiduciary responsibility) and violating Security and Exchange Commission insider trading regulations must be resolved.     

Ethics in Nanotechnology: What’s Being Done? What’s Missing?

Nanotechnology shows great promise in a variety of applications with attractive economic and societal benefits. However, societal issues associated with nanotechnology are still a concern to the general public. While numerous technological advancements in nanotechnology have been achieved over the past decade, research into the broader societal issues of nanotechnology is still in its early phases. Based on the data from the Web of Science database, we applied the main path analysis, cluster analysis and text mining tools to explore the main research fronts and hierarchical structure of these societal issues. We found that the research studies fell into four categories: “General Toxicity and EHS (Environment, Health and Safety),” “Medicine and Cytotoxicity,” “Assessment and Regulation,” and “Environment and Ecotoxicity.” These research studies have disclosed much information about the potential effect of nanotechnology on public health and the environment. Relatively speaking, the studies on the assessment, regulation, preventive solutions, and environmental protection are just emerging. This finding indicates that an abundance of effort should be conducted on these emerging themes to maximize the benefits of nanotechnology while minimizing its potential harm. The implications for various parties in this domain are also presented.     

Novell’s网络之春

Novell公司4月8日在天津市大宇大酒店举行了以“网络之春”为主题的Novell’98新产品发布会,向用户及新闻界广泛而系统地介绍了该公司98年新推出的5种功能强劲的网络产品,并再一次宣讲了其独具特色的教育培训策略。作为IT产业界著名的网络产品供应商,Novell’98新产品着重于向用户提供完整的企业级网络解决大寨。通过这些产品,用户可以建立起从小型局域网到大型广域网,以操作系统到应用服务器,以单一网络环境到异种网络环境,以Internet到IN-TRANET等一整套网络体系. 发布会上,Novell向广大用户代表和新闻记者介绍了新产品的功能与应用,它们包括: 新一代的网络操作系统Netware 5.0、Netware是第一个作为网络操作系统而推出的产品。是Net-ware首先引入了网络操作系统的慨念。Netware优秀的文件及打印服务、NDS技术是业界公认的标准。在网络操作系统领域,Netware曾几度开风气之     

Trump’s Trade Policy Agenda

President Donald Trump espouses “America First” positions which are commonly interpreted as protectionist. However, a closer reading of Donald Trump’s business interests, of his administration’s published trade agenda and of US trade negotiation history calls into question whether “America First” means protectionism. Trump will use large trade deficits to pressure trading partners to further open up their markets. Companies that are successful in exporting to the US market from those countries will be alarmed by protectionist announcements and will therefore most likely pressure their governments to give in to the demands of the Trump administration.     

The role of a municipality’s financial health in a firm’s siting decision

When deciding where to locate a new facility, a firm needs to consider the financial health of the municipality where its activities will take place. Unless it sites its facility in a financially viable community, a firm is putting a substantial investment at risk. Despite the importance of this issue, many firms pay insufficient attention to a municipality’s financial condition. Instead, they focus on matters such as the tax rate, the quality of the school system, or the absence of regulatory constraints. All of these features are important, but unless a municipality is financially healthy, they can evaporate before a company has attained its expected return on investment. There are 5 financial statements and 10 financial ratios that can be used to create a financial health template, which can help a firm to assess a municipality’s financial strength, or its counterpart financial weakness. The template goes beyond the debt-repayment focus of credit rating agencies to matters such as financial autonomy, cash flows, and borrowing capacity. We use data from three cities—Barcelona, Dublin, and Detroit (pre- and post-bankruptcy)—to demonstrate the template’s ability to facilitate comparisons among cities that are in different countries and that use different accounting systems.     

GATT’s role in East-West trade

After a phase of stagnation in East-West trade lasting several years, both sides have more recently been at pains to intensify economic relations between East and West, the reasons being both economic and political. What part can the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) play in this regard?     

Levi’s操作牛仔新锐品牌

牛仔服市场相对比较成熟，仅从价格区间和目标消费者定位就可以推出一个新的品牌，进而撬动一个巨大的市场吗？Levi’s 推出的dENiZEN品牌会给出什么样的答案呢？     

中国制造：let’s购

正在热映的美国电影《2012》即使明摆着有借讨好中国人赚取票房的嫌疑,但看完电影后大多数中国人觉得这回让美国人给忽悠一下还是挺值的。倒不是说我们真的就相信,如电影中所暗示的那样,人类世界的未来命运全系于中国之手,而是我们真切地感受到,艺术来源于生活,把“Made In China,”这几个字印在“诺亚方舟”上,就成了这部科幻电影中最现实的部分。     

Strategic Evaluation of Kenya’s Tourism

1. Introduction Currently, tourism plays a major role in the world economy and has become more important in some countries endowed a variety of tourism attractions. Kenya, which is an East African country, continu- ously outpaces its neighbour countries on tourism industry. In Kenya, tourism industry, as the largest single export earner, is one of vital     

Assessment of Yeats’s Drama Career

Yeats’s poetry, in spite of all its Irish imagery, myths, legends and symbolism, is as much a part of English poetry as of Irish. But his plays belong almost wholly to Ireland. This is mainly due to the fact that Yeats’s work as a dramatist has centered round the Abbey Theatre, a theatre mainly of his own creation. It is when one thinks of his connection with the Irish Dramatic Movement that one feels, as George Moore has said that all the Irish movement rose out of Yeats and returns t…     

The Economics of Japan’s Stagnation

The Japanese economy has been mired in subdued growth and deflation for more than two decades. This paper describes the key economic facts and features of Japan’s decades of stagnation. It discusses why long-term Japanese government bonds’ nominal yields have stayed very low in spite of elevated government debt ratios and chronic fiscal deficits. It also provides a brief overview of Abenomics and recent economic developments in Japan.