高端航运服务业发展机理、模式与启示

高端航运服务业的发展水平一定程度代表了一个国家航运业的全球竞争能力。信息技术的融合、服务业内部的融合与制造业的融合促进了高端航运服务业的产生和发展。高端航运服务业可分为市场交易型与知识经济驱动型两种发展模式。中国在发展高端航运服务业的过程中要有选择地介入市场交易型高端航运服务业领域,大力推进知识经济驱动型航运服务业发展。     

航运高端服务业的发展机理——服务业融合的视角

航运高端服务业的发展水平在很大程度上代表了国际航运中心的全球竞争力.文章通过对服务业融合文献的回顾,总结服务业融合的机理和模式,研究了航运高端服务业的发展机理.服务业内的融合、技术的融合以及与制造业的融合是航运高端服务业产生发展的重要模式.     

上海发展航运咨询业的若干思考

航运咨询业是航运业发展过程中出现的新兴产业,作为高端航运服务业的重要组成部分,航运咨询业的发展有助于改善上海国际航运中心建设的政策环境,为政府制定政策、企业进行决策提供依据,是我国赢得国际航运话语权的重要保障。一、上海航运咨询业的发展现状《国务院关于推进上海加快发展现代服务业和先进制造业建设国际金融中心和国际航运中心的意见》发布以来,上海国际航运中心建设进入攻坚阶段,为了     

陆家嘴:金融航运梦想启动

上海打造国际航运中心,浦东完全可以利用陆家嘴的金融优势,促进金融界和航运业的沟通,创造新的金融品种,用资金扶持国内航运业的发展。浦东地区最独特的优势是集聚了众多的航运专才,其二是陆家嘴区域内集中了众多的金融、保险企业和机构,第三是其自然环境、商务空间、楼宇条件、交通设施、服务配套等都非常有利于发展航运金融服务业。航运中心就是“枢纽港+发达的航运服务业“模式。     

促进我国高瑞航运服务产业集群发展的思考

当今,产业集群已成为引人注目的区域经济发展趋势,有力地带动了区域发展。航运服务业存在集群现象,甚至比有些产业更具典型性,比如已经发展得相当成熟的伦敦海事服务集群和荷兰海运集群、初具规模的香港海运服务集群,都充分说明航运服务业的集群特性。本文试图从产业集群的角度对促进我国高端航运服务产业集群发展进行初步的探讨。     

关于大力发展广州船舶交易业的思考

一、广州发展船舶交易业的必要性、迫切性与可行性 1．必要性。船舶交易是现代航运服务业的重要组成部分，也是广州建设国际航运中心的一个重要依托。广州发展船舶交易业可以带动航运、游艇、造船、修船、船舶配件、船舶评估、船舶检验以及银行、保险、诉讼／仲裁等地方相关经济的发展，是集聚航运要素的基础力量。大力发展船舶交易业，延伸其上、下游产业链，对广州发展船舶制造业和现代航运服务业等具有重要现实意义。     

关于航运经纪人

航运经纪人提供的增值服务是航运市场买卖双力不可缺少的组成部分。 航运交易的技术和法律要求较为复杂，仅靠供需双方很难顺利完成交易，通常有专业的经纪人从中提供服务。伦敦凭借着拥有世界一流的航运经纪人公司，掌握了全球航运的信息资源，与其他高端航运服务业相结合，     

青岛市加快港口高端服务业发展的对策建议

港口高端服务业是现代服务业的重要组成部分,依托港口发展航运服务业,形成港口业与航运服务业两股相辅相成的互动力量,是世界各大国际航运中心崛起的共同特点。青岛港应超前规划,积极引导投融资向港口高附加值服务倾斜,加快发展港口高端服务业。     

船舶融资租赁及航运企业资金困境摆脱:宁波证据

船舶融资在航运企业的发展中起着决定性作用,航运业高风险的特点导致航运企业融资困难。船舶融资租赁作为一种全新的融资方式,满足了航运业特别是中小航运企业的资金需求。船舶融资租赁在我国起步较晚,还没有形成一个良好的经营环境。发展浙江省宁波市船舶融资租赁业务,应继续加强航运企业和金融服务业的合作,政府应出台扶持航运企业船舶融资租赁业务的政策,并设立船舶产业投资基金。     

上海国际航运中心信息服务建设现状及发展策略

国务院《关于推进上海加快发展现代服务业和先进制造业、建设国际金融中心和国际航运中心的意见》中明确提出"到2020年,将上海基本建成具有全球航运资源配置能力的国际航运中心"。届时上海国际航运中心需要对港口、航运、国内物流的资源具有配置能力,而完善和高效的信息服务是基础之一。世界著名国际航运中心都拥有发达的信息服务,伦敦的航运高端信息服务水平尤为突出,拥有许多世界著名的航运信息咨询服务和科研机构。上海国际航运中心航运信息服务与一流国际航运中心相比还存在一定差距。本文通过对上海国际航运中心信息服务建设现状的分析,提出上海国际航运中心信息服务建设的发展策略。     

基于熵权TOPSIS模型的中国海洋综合实力评价

海洋强国战略目标的实现需以海洋综合实力的整体提升为基础。运用熵权TOPSIS模型,根据中国海洋经济及相关统计数据对海洋综合实力及其动态变异规律进行分析评价。结果显示,2001—2016年中国海洋综合实力呈上升趋势,且具有阶段性特征,但要素层七大子系统对海洋综合实力提升的传递作用具有异质性。为此,需从以下方面提升中国海洋综合实力：完善海洋科技发展体制机制,提升海洋经济发展质量与效益;改善海洋基础设施效能,提高海洋产品与服务的消费市场与国际竞争力;在合理利用现有海洋资源基础上进一步开发海洋新资源,提高海洋生态保护能力。     

信息服务优先期权定价模型与实证分析

基于所建立的信息服务优先期权定价模型、实物期权定价模型、完善的二叉树模型和完善的Black-Scholes模型,利用样本数据对图书馆信息服务进行了定价研究。结果表明:当基本的下载服务费为3元、服务周期为一年时,四个期权定价模型均表明消费者只需要额外支付约0.2—0.3元即可购买优先期权直接享受下载服务,同时也验证了信息服务优先期权定价模型的有效性。     

基于组合模型的股票预测研究综述

随着金融业数据环境的日益复杂,利用传统单一模型进行高精度股价预测变得愈加困难。面对日益突出的股票分析技术需求,组合预测模型开始得到发展并取得了很多成果。首先介绍影响股价波动的分析指标,概括基于传统统计预测模型、机器学习、神经网络等单一预测模型在股票预测中的优势与不足。然后依据组合预测模型的组合形式,将其分为线性模型的组合、非线性模型的组合以及线性与非线性模型的组合3种类型,并报告多种组合模型的实际应用与研究现状。最后,对组合模型股票预测方法的有效性和稳定性进行展望。     

Wage Reform in Singapore

Singapore attained self-government in 1959. Her policy of relying on the MNCs to achieve industrialization has proven to be very successful. The Singapore model shows that economic strategy must be flexible to meet the changing needs of the Singapore economy. One such economic strategy is the wage system.
During the period 1959–1990, the wage system in Singapore changed twice, once in 1968, and again in 1985. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we examine the need for wage reform, and secondly to discuss various patterns of flexible wage models in Singapore. The main conclusion is that Singapore's flexible wage models can benefit both the worker and the employer.     

Market Risk in Demutualized Self-Listed Stock Exchanges: An International Analysis of Selected Time-Varying Betas

Abstract

This article examines market risk in four demutualized and self-listed stock exchanges: the Australian Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Börse, the London Stock Exchange and the Singapore Stock Exchange. Daily company and the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Index returns provide the respective asset and market portfolio data. A bivariate GARCH model is used to estimate time-varying betas for each exchange from listing until 7 June 2005. While the results indicate significant beta volatility, unit root tests show the betas to be mean-reverting. These findings are used to suggest that despite concerns that demutualized and self-listed exchanges entail new market risks that merit regulatory intervention, the betas of the exchange companies have not changed significantly since listing. However, market risk does vary considerable across the exchanges, with mean time-varying betas of 0.56 for the Deutsche Börse, 0.66 for the London Stock Exchange, 0.78 for the Singapore Stock Exchange, and 0.95 for the Australian Stock Exchange.     

Markup Variation and Productivity Measurement in Singapore*

Conventional measures of total factor productivity using growth accounting may not be appropriate when there is variation in markups across industries. The existence of market power implies that total factor productivity contains an endogenous component related to the variation in markups. I examine the variation of markups at the industry level for the manufacturing and services sectors in Singapore from 1983 to 2003. Using two different measures, I find that the markups in Singapore are significant in most industries, at around 28 and 55percent for the manufacturing and services sectors, respectively. Markups for the services sector declined during the period, while the markups for the key manufacturing industries increased after the Asian financial crisis in 1997. Accounting for variation in markups suggests that improvement in technological progress tends to be underestimated by 0.5–1.0percent per year. The underestimation is more severe in industries with relatively high markups.     

Canal carriers and creative destruction in English transport

Canals played a key role in the industrial revolution by creating the infrastructure for inland waterway transport. Public carriers responded to canals and the growing demand for transport by innovating in service speed, quality, and reliability. How did their innovations affect the transport market, especially road carriers? One hypothesis is that road and canal carriers complemented one another, offering services with different speeds and prices. Another sees them as competitors with canal carriers winning based on their lower operating costs. We test these hypotheses using London trade directories, which detail road and waterway services from London to most towns and cities from 1779 to 1827. Our main results show that introducing the standard canal barge service between London and a major city had no effect on the number of road carrier services supplied to that same city-pair. By contrast, introducing an express canal service, known as the fly boat, significantly reduced road carrier services supplied. Fly boats are found to have weaker competition effects if the ratio of waterway to road distance was greater and on short and long route distances. The results provide new insights on the importance of speed and service innovation during the industrial revolution.     

国外养老保险立法的启示

养老保险立法在西方发达国家及一些新兴的发展中国家已经历了一个发展、改革过程 ,目前走向了相对成熟的阶段。典型的有以德国为代表的权利义务均衡型立法模式 ,以英国为代表的福利型立法模式 ,以及以智利、新加坡为代表的强制储蓄型立法模式。尽管各国具体的立法模式有别 ,但     

Foreign Direct Investment and Services Trade: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore

Abstract

Services trade is an important source of growth in Malaysia and Singapore. Both economies are export-oriented and actively court foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic objectives of industrialization and economic development. This paper examines the causal linkages between inward FDI and the country's engagement in services trade in bi-variate and tri-variate VAR frameworks. The empirical findings for Singapore show evidence of bi-directional causality between inward FDI and the total trade volume in services (i.e. the absolute sum of payments and receipts) as well as between FDI and services imports (in the tri-variate specification). This may reflect her relative open foreign investment policy and free trade regime in services. For Malaysia, the evidence of causality is weaker and uni-directional, from inward FDI to services imports. These findings are consistent with the different stages of economic development and openness attained by the two sample countries, and they provide useful background for trade and foreign investment policies and development strategies.     

International bimetallism and silver absorption in Singapore, 1840–73

This study reveals the mechanism underlying the silver trade in Singapore during the third quarter of the nineteenth century by analysing banking business and bullion arbitrage. After 1849, the California Gold Rush induced gold depreciation and silver appreciation in Singapore's bullion market, and arbitrage profits for silver imports from Britain emerged. At the same time, the expansion of banking business by eastern exchange banks enhanced the connectivity of Singapore's exchange market with London, and enabled bullion arbitrage between the two distant cities. As a result, there was an influx of silver from Britain. In addition, Dutch silver, which was exported to Java by the Netherlands after 1854, flowed into Singapore due to the unfavourable exchange policy of the Dutch government.