AN EMPIRICAL NOTE ON COMMUTING DISTANCE AND SLEEP DURING WORKWEEK AND WEEKEND

The author uses six years of large‐scale panel survey data for Germany to analyse the nexus between commuting distance from the place of residence to the workplace and quantity of sleep. Pooled and individual fixed‐effects regressions indicate that workers with longer commuting distance sleep significantly less per night during the workweek, but not less during the weekend. A one kilometer longer commuting distance is on average correlated with 0.0035 (pooled) and 0.0011 (fixed‐effects) hours less sleep per night during the workweek. As commuting seems to affect sleep quantity, it might negatively affect health and time allocation for other leisure activities.     

INTERNATIONAL CREDIT CHANNEL OF MONETARY POLICY: AN EMPIRICAL NOTE

A longstanding macroeconomic issue is how monetary policy affects the real economy. There are economists placing an emphasis on the role of bank lending in monetary transmission. Their view, called the credit view, is that a monetary tightening shifts the supply schedule of bank loans left, thereby forcing bank‐dependent borrowers to cut back on expenditures. In the literature, the credit view is typically studied in a closed‐economy context. In reality, however, banks make international loans through their overseas branches and subsidiaries. This suggests that the credit view should be studied in an open‐economy context. This paper proposes the international credit view: a monetary‐policy shock originated in one country propagates to another through banks’ reallocation of funds between the two countries. For testing the hypothesis, Australia and New Zealand provide an excellent case to study. This is because Australian‐owned banks dominate the banking market in New Zealand. This paper aims to test the international credit view within a framework of vector auto‐regression models. A significant and robust finding is that the supply schedule of loans shifts left in New Zealand after a monetary tightening in Australia.     

欧元区主权债务期限结构的实证分析

本文通过对欧元区成员国长期债务占总债务比重与各国整体宏观经济指标相关关系的实证分析表明,欧元区各国以GDP与税收比、债务与GDP之比所描述的当期融资能力与长期债务比例呈显著负相关,由于非对称冲击的作用,各国体现出不同的特征。本文同时构建了一个政府债务效用函数的二期模型,说明主权债务期限结构安排可以通过宏观调控进行跨期平滑,以防止主权债务危机的发生。     

FDI对上海经济增长影响的实证研究

经济全球化、加入、WTO以及国家经济中心的地位使得上海成为我国外商直接投资的"高地".基于1981-2006年上海市时间序列数据,运用ADF检验、Granger因果检验以及多元回归模型,对FDI与上海市经济增长之间的关系进行了实证分析,发现FDI是上海市经济增长的Granger原因.同时从资金本身、资金附着物以及资金运行的角度来看,FDI的外溢效应亦相当明显,从而对上海市的经济增长产生了积极的影响.     

中国工业化阶段性评价实证研究

1978年以来,中国的工业化加速发展,处于工业化成长阶段,期间受到政府宏观经济调控的影响很大。今后5年内中国工业化仍处于加速发展阶段。2008年前后中国的工业化发展将出现拐点,工业化发展趋势将开始下降。     

EVIDENCE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

This research provides empirical support for the hypothesis that learning economics increases a student's critical thinking skills. Using the short form of the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA-S) as our measure of critical thinking skills, we find that students who gain a high level of economic understanding in their introductory economics class, as measured by the Test of Understanding College Economics (TUCE), have statistically significant gains in their WGCTA-S scores. Students who spend more time taking classes and are more fully engaged in the university experience also have greater gains in critical thinking. These results lend support to the idea that introductory economics courses can work in concert with other university level courses, especially within the context of a full-time curriculum, to enhance critical thinking skills. ( JEL A22)     

澳门服务产业集聚效应实证分析

把澳门服务产业区位商作为集聚指数纳入生产函数的计量经济学模型中,通过回归分析,测算澳门整体经济和部分服务行业的集聚效应。从研究结果得知,澳门服务产业的区域集聚对整体经济以及博彩业、餐饮业、酒店业产生明显的促进作用,但对银行业、旅行社、运输和仓储三个行业出现负集聚效应,而通信业、批发和零售业、不动产管理业则不能确定集聚经济的存在。     

浙江省海洋产业就业效应的实证分析

海洋产业已成为目前浙江省扩大就业的主要领域。以浙江省的数据为基础,综合运用统计学、经济学、管理学的各种方法与理论,结合浙江海洋产业结构的实际情况,分析浙江海洋产业所占GDP比重和就业比重变化,考量浙江海洋产业的劳动生产率;在阐明浙江海洋产业发展和劳动就业现状的基础上,运用计量分析的方法,对海洋产业发展中的劳动就业贡献率及其对劳动力的吸纳能力进行了分析预测,指出海洋产业是浙江省吸纳就业的主力,并提出了相关的政策建议。     

中国省际资本流动规模实证研究

基于市场交易中资金与货物流向相反的逻辑,以地区货物和服务净流出减去其净出口的相反数来测算中国省际资本流动的规模,并分析其制度成因。结果表明:1980—2008年东部为资本净流入地区,中部为资本净流出地区,而西部则为持续的资本净流出地区;在东部地区内,京津冀为资本净流入地区,长三角和珠三角为资本净流出地区。资本跨地区流动的制度成因在于地方政府行为生成的内生交易费用差异,因而地区产业投资环境建设的重点在于持续降低当地的内生交易费用。在推进区域产业转移和产业升级过程中,可置信的保护产权的承诺等良好的公共治理对于改善地区投资环境必不可少。     

基于涉入理论的自驾车旅游购物行为实证研究——以少林寺景区为例

以少林寺景区自驾车游客为研究对象,用抽样调查的方法取得基础数据,将涉人理论引入到自驾车游客购物行为的研究中,分析不同涉人程度的自驾车游客的购物行为的差异,为相关生产、销售、服务、管理等部门提供参考.     

区域金融资源差异对经济发展的影响

作为一个区域化特征明显的发展中大国,我国中西部经济金融发展速度和水平明显落后于东部地区,且有进一步拉大的趋势,区域发展差距的扩大和非均衡问题已成为影响我国经济社会和谐发展的重要因素。选取存款作为一个地区的金融资源指标,以1987—2007年数据为样本,对GDP增长率、存款增长率建立模型。结果表明:区域金融资源与GDP之间存在正相关关系,但各地区的效应是不尽相同的,区域金融资源给GDP带来的影响力度整体表现为东部好于西部,西部优于中部。     

湖南省现代服务业发展因素实证研究

通过建立一个多元线性回归模型,对1995—2007年湖南现代服务业发展变化的决定因素作了实证分析。结果显示:人均生产总值、制造业增加值、就业人数、固定资产投资、城市化率与城镇居民可支配收入对湖南现代服务业产值均有不同程度的影响,其中固定资产投入对现代服务业的拉动作用最为明显。与此同时,与我们的预期相反,人均生产总值以及城镇居民可支配收入对现代服务业的发展具有消极影响。然而,现代服务业产值与人均生产总值、城镇居民可支配收入之间具有单向的因果关系。