坚定发展信心 积极应对挑战——温家宝总理在广东、深圳、上海考察调研时的讲话

中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝，在11月14日至15日深入广东的中小企业考察调研，在11月21日至23日深入浙江、上海的民营企业和大型企业考察调研。他深人工厂车间、主持召开座谈会，充分听取企业负责人和职工群众的意见、建议，就企业发展问题进行深人调研。温家宝总理强调要大力支持中小企业发展，要坚定发展信心积极应对挑战。他强调，     

温家宝走访浦东盛大网络公司和世博园

11月28日至29日,中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝到上海、江苏考察工作,走访了多家高新技术企业和科研院所,就加快转变经济发展方式、产业结构调整和升级等进行调研。在浦东,温家宝先后走访了盛大网络     

温家宝在东湖高新区考察指出：靠信心智慧和力量战胜困难

3月29日至31日，中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝在湖北省委书记罗清泉和省长李鸿忠等陪同下，深入武汉东湖高新区考察调研。 近年来，武汉高新技术产业发展迅速，“武汉·中国光谷”已经成为我国高新技术产业发展的一张新名片。温家宝总理先后来到冠捷显示科技（武汉）有限公司和武汉东湖高新区的烽火通信科技股份有限公司等高新技术企业调研。     

省内

温家宝总理在浙江调研中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝6月25日至26日在浙江调研,并主持召开了有上海、江苏、浙江三省市负责人参加的经济形势座谈会。温总理强调,要密切跟踪分析形势,始终保持清醒头脑,进一步加强经济运行监测,及时发现新情况、新问题,未雨绸缪,沉着应对,牢牢把握经济工作主动权。     

寰眼天下·省内

温家宝总理考察浙江 4月8日至9日，中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝在浙江就经济运行情况进行调研，考察海洋科技、装备制造、纺织出口企业和国际航运服务中心等。     

温家宝在辽宁调研：要求企业振奋精神迎难而上

全国“两会”结束不久．中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝来到辽宁就企业生产经营情况进行调查研究．3月20日至22日，温家宝在鞍山、沈阳、大连等地深入车间、码头、研发中心．和企业负责人及一线职工亲切交谈．了解企业生产经营情况和市场形势，共商落实《政府工作报告》各项任务，应对当前金融危机的对策。他强调．国家实行振兴东北等老工业基地的战略．为应对国际金融危机奠定了坚实基础．要继续坚定不移地实行这一方针．发挥东北老工业基地的优势．促进经济平稳较快发展。     

经济复苏中国抢先？

【法国《欧洲时报》1月12日】中国总理温家宝1月9日至11日在江苏考察时表示，中国要建立信心、迎难而上，在金融危机中最早复苏和振兴。一国总理的表态，很大程度上提振了各行业以及亿万国人同胞对经济复苏的信心。     

领导关怀

＂要统一思想,坚定信心,狠抓落实,让国家出台的一揽子扩内需、保增长的政策措施早见成效。＂2009年1月9日至11日,中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝到江苏省考察工作,他深入企业、市场、学校和社区,召开座谈会,就当前经济形势进行调查研究。温总理一行刚下飞机就来到长江岸边的江阴市,先后到江苏阳光集团、江苏新潮集团调研．并主持召开企业家座谈会,江苏省、无锡市和江阴市及江阴经济开发区领导陪同考察。     

资讯

政策法规温家宝主持会议部署节能减排应对气候变化国家应对气候变化及节能减排工作领导小组第一次会议9日在北京召开。中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理、国家应对气候变化及节能减排工作领导小组组长温家宝主持会议并讲话。他强调,一定要从全局和战略的高度,充分认识加强节能     

俯身听民意殷殷巴渝情 --温家宝总理在重庆考察纪实

4月21日到24日,中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理温家宝来到重庆,对重庆市经济社会发展,特别是三峡库区移民安稳致富和社会主义新农村建设的情况进行了考察调研。温家宝寄语重庆广大干部群众,要认真贯彻落实科学发展观,努力进取,开拓创新,以更加坚定的信心和更加扎实的工作,推动经济社会发展迈上新台阶,进一步带动西南地区和长江上游地区经济社会发展与繁荣。     

Bubbles, crises, and policy

In many recent cases financial liberalization has led to a bubblein asset prices. The bursting of the bubble results in a bankingcrisis and recession. It is suggested such bubbles are causedby an interaction of the risk-shifting problem arising fromagency relationships in intermediaries and uncertainty concerningthe expansion of credit. Two important policy objectives areidentified. The first is the prevention of bubbles in assetprices. The second is minimizing the impact of spillovers onto the real economy during post-bubble banking crises. The differentpolicy approaches taken in Norway and Japan are compared.     

Finance, governments, and trade

We study how financial transactions may respond to exogenous variation in trade opportunities not only directly, but also through policy channels. In more open economies, governments may find it more difficult to fund and enforce public policies that substitute private financial transactions, and more appealing to deregulate financial markets. We propose a simple theoretical model of such policy-mediated relationships between trade and financial development. Empirically, we document in a country panel dataset that, before the 2007–2008 crisis, financial market volumes were robustly and negatively related to the share of government consumption in GDP in regressions that also include indicators of financial regulation and trade openness, and we seek support for a causal interpretation of this result in instrumental variable specifications.     

Migration,FDI, and Welfare

We investigate migration and foreign direct investment (FDI) for a small trading economy. Historically, immigration in small countries has been accompanied by FDI inflows (complementary capital movements). Based on the skill composition of migrants, empirical evidence finds that skilled immigration is accompanied by FDI inflows but unskilled immigration is accompanied by FDI outflows (substitutable capital movements). We prove that the Heckscher-Ohlin model cannot reconcile these apparently contradictory observations. We introduce a theoretical model in which capital and unskilled labor are sector specific, and demonstrate that this model can reconcile the historical and empirical observations on migration and FDI.     

Emotions,Sanctions, and Cooperation

We use skin conductance responses and self‐reported hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. We argue that the availability of sanctions sets in motion a “virtuous emotional circle” that accompanies cooperation. Emotional reaction to free riding leads cooperators to apply sanctions. In response, and in addition to the monetary consequences of receiving sanctions, the negative emotions experienced by the free‐riders when punished lead them to increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of cooperation that becomes a new norm. Therefore, emotions sustain both the use of altruistic punishment and cooperation.     

Growth, equality, and history

Complex policy issues deserve frequent reassessment, and the relationship between economic growth and equality is undeniably complex. Policymakers who care about trade-offs between the two goals continue to press the scientific limits of empirical economics. It takes an enormous sample of long-term national experiences to approximate the data base necessary to move debate from allegation to evidence. Fortunately, the sample continues to expand. Since the 1950s dozens of countries have produced evidence on income distribution and growth, and the records of some currently developed countries have been extended back into the 17th century. This article assesses the empirical harvest. Most of our inferences, however, are based on American and British history.     

Investment financing, inflation, risks, and stabilization

This paper discusses financial problems of stepping up the investment process in Russia, approaches to intensifying financial redistribution, opportunities for using government savings to boost and upgrade economic growth, and suggests financial support measures for the modernization of the Russian economy.     

Sickness, absenteeism, presenteeism, and sick pay

The annual cost of absenteeism from the workplace in the UKhas been estimated to be over 1% of GDP. The traditional approachto a discussion of absence has been for the firm to passivelyaccept both wages and sick pay and allow workers to choose theirabsence behaviour. Most empirical research has been based onthis approach. However, if absence is costly why should firmspay extra-statutory sick pay? One reason may be the phenomenaof presenteeism (ill workers attending work). This may adverselyaffect productivity. This paper shows that allowing for presenteeismhas important implications for both the design of optimal wage-sickpay contracts and for the interpretation of empirical studies.Specifically, we show that firms will offer a level of sickpay greater than the statutory minimum.