武汉经济转型：从传统比较优势到竞争优势

改革开发以来,随着市场化进程加快,作为老工业城市的武汉市,其经济日益失去竞争优势,面临着经济转型的严峻挑战。本文分析了武汉市经济发展滞后的根源,认为武汉市发展滞后的根源是过分依赖于传统生产要素比较优势的发挥,没有实现竞争优势持续创造。文中提出新时期构建武汉经济的竞争优势体系的思路和对策。     

“比较优势陷阱”与中部地区经济增长

就地区经济增长而言,丰裕的自然资源既存在比较优势的促进作用,又存在比较优势弱势化的约束作用。因而自然资源对中部地区经济增长的影响,不仅要看到其促进作用,更要关注其约束作用。中部地区既要充分发挥自然资源的比较优势,更要消除其约束作用,促使经济健康快速发展。     

动态比较优势理论在实践中的发展

第二次世界大战以后,日本及东亚新兴工业化国家经济的迅速崛起以及当代国际贸易格局的变化,向传统的比较优势理论提出了挑战.越来越多的经济学家开始将技术进步和技术扩散的因素纳入研究范畴,他们从动态角度或采用动态分析方法解释国际贸易的发展变化,使动态比较优势理论不断发展和完善.虽然这一理论不像传统的比较优势理论那样具有公认的统一权威性,而是体现在不同经济学家的若干论述中,但其理论观点、分析方法以及对现实的解释,已经引起人们的关注.     

Interrelationships among banks,stock markets and economic growth: an empirical investigation

This article utilizes a simultaneous equations model to study the relationships among economic growth, banking and stock market development. In contrast to conventional instrumental variable approach, we implement the analysis via the methodology of identification through heteroscedasticity. Using Beck and Levine (2004 Beck, T. and Levine, R. (2004) Stock markets, banks and growth:panel evidence, Journal of Banking and Finance, 28, 423–42.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) dataset, we find that each of the three variables interacts in important ways. While both are conducive to economic growth, banking development matters more for growth in low-income countries and stock market development is more favourable to growth in high-income or low-inflation ones. The data also reveal coexistence of a positive effect of banking development on stock market development and a negative effect of stock market development on banking development. Besides, the feedback effects of growth on both banking and stock market development are found.     

Money,Trust, and Culture: Elements for an Institutional Approach to Money

The development gap between countries in tropical and temperate zones has been attributed to a variety of factors. Using data from the World Values Survey, we find that social norms about thrift, as opposed to sharing, vary with the length of the winter season. We also show that this cultural dimension “thrift versus sharing” and institutional quality both have an independent effect on contemporary economic outcomes. This suggests that the tropical development gap might be the consequence of deep-rooted effects of pre-industrial agro-climatic conditions on both the quality of institutions and social norms about thrift versus sharing that fostered development in the industrial era.     

社会资本、金融发展与经济增长--基于中国东中西部省际数据的实证检验比较

社会资本对理解转轨情境下的当代中国金融发展与经济增长问题十分重要。采用中国东、中和西部的省际面板数据研究中国转轨时期不同制度水平下社会资本、金融发展及其联合效应对经济增长的影响。实证研究表明,正规金融的发展促进了经济增长,而社会资本对中国经济增长则具有显著的负影响。社会资本与正规金融发展的联合效应在东部和西部地区有利于经济增长,但非正规金融与社会资本的联合效应则不利于经济增长,并且制度越完善,这种负面效应越明显。因此,在深化制度改革和金融发展的同时,应注重社会资本结构优化和平衡,规范非正规金融发展。     

在比较优势基础上形成我国纺织业竞争优势

纺织业是我国竞争性和国际依存度较高的产业 ,也是劳动密集型和具有比较优势的传统支柱产业。经过几十年的发展 ,中国已圆了纺织大国之梦。但是 ,我国纺织业大而不强 ,国际竞争力弱。笔者根据比较优势与竞争优势理论 ,通过分析我国纺织业的竞争力现状 ,提出了在比较优势的基础上构建竞争优势实施强纺织发展战略。     

The New Comparative Political Economy

With the collapse of communism in the late 1980s the field of comparative political economy has undergone major revision. Socialism is no longer considered the viable alternative to capitalism it once was. We now recognize that the choice is between alternative institutional arrangements of capitalism. Progress in the field of comparative political economy is achieved by examining how different legal, political and social institutions shape economic behavior and impact economic performance. In this paper we survey the new learning in comparative political economy and suggest how this learning should redirect our attention in economic development.JEL classification: B53, O10, O20, P0     

The Productivity of US States since 1880

This study uses state-level variation in labor productivity levels at twenty-year intervals between 1880 and 1980 to examine the relative importance of institutional and geographical influences in explaining observed and persistent differences in standards of living over time and across regions. Focusing on fundamental rather than proximate influences, we find that both institutional characteristics and some physical geography characteristics account for a high proportion of the differences in state productivity levels: states with navigable waterways, a large minerals endowment, and no slaves in 1860, on average, had higher labor productivity levels throughout the sample period. However, we find little support for two other influences that have previously received attention—climate and latitude.     

北京的经济发展及其增长因素分析

建国以来，北京经济的发展发生了巨大的变化。对于经济增长的因素，主要表现在劳动力数量增加的变化和技术退步等方面。经济发展由资本和劳动力数量的增大等外延的发展形态转换为内涵的发展状态，即劳动力素质的改善、技术的追步以及资本集约度的上升等作为积极因素促进经济的增长。     

“政治学的诺贝尔奖”与当代比较政治学的科学追求——亚当·卓沃尔斯基关于民主与发展的研究介绍

亚当·卓沃尔斯基在研究国家经济发展水平与民主转型之间的关系方面做出了杰出贡献,因而获得2010年度约翰·斯凯特政治科学奖。主要贡献表现为以下三方面：第一,就民主体制的生成问题,他的研究打破了在研究民主转型问题上的经济决定论的迷思,并验证了民主体制在生存问题上对经济发展水平的依赖性。第二,就政治体制对经济发展的影响问题,他的研究表明在大规模的跨国比较分析中,看不出不同的政治体制（民主的或非民主的）对经济发展有什么系统的影响。第三,从根本上改变了比较研究的分析思路,把比较政治学分析从过去着重于类别比较分析,提高到重视科学检验一般性理论陈述的境界,而且强调重视选择偏差机制对样本分布的影响,从而科学地分析表象后面深层的因果关系问题。     

动态比较优势与服务外包发展战略

服务外包是中国实现经济服务化战略的重要途径,发展服务外包的关键是创造比较优势。利用波特的钻石体系分析了服务外包比较优势的来源及其与制造业的异同,根据动态比较优势原理给出发展服务外包的政策建议,包括改变基础设施投向、推动制造业升级、提升人力资本水平以及加大信息安全和知识产权保护等。     

The Needham puzzle,the Weber question,and China's miracle: Long-term performance since the Sung dynasty

This paper attempts a brief overview of China's economic performance since the Sung dynasty. It discusses Chinese long economic stagnation since the Sung dynasty and explores the reasons why it was quickly lagging behind western countries from the 1800s. It explains why the industrialization and modernization led by Chinese government from 1949 to 1978 failed in narrowing the gap between China and the developed countries. It examines Chinese rapid economic growth during its reform and opening up period.     

Evolutionary Economics and Cultural Hermeneutics: Veblen,Cultural Relativism,and Blind Drift

The aim of this paper is to quantify the importance of institutions in economic growth and to identify the factors that determine institutional quality. For this purpose, we estimate a system of simultaneous equations with an income equation and another one of institutional quality and use a broad sample of countries with very different levels of development. The analysis is also carried out for three sub-samples of different income levels. In addition, a test of the robustness of the results to econometric techniques is performed.     

Economic thoughts from an East Asian perspective: a conceptual framework of viability and development strategy

This paper attempts an analytical framework centred on the relationship between the concept of viability and choice of development strategy. On the basis of a critical review on the mainstream literature in economic development, it presents the conceptual framework with an emphasis on elaborating the dichotomy of ‘comparative advantage defying (CAD) strategy’ versus ‘comparative advantage following (CAF) strategy’. Empirical experiences of economic development in China and other East Asian economies in the contemporary era are discussed in the context of the conceptual framework.     

论我国劳动密集型产业比较优势和竞争优势的互补性

我国是一个人口大国,劳动力资源丰富是一大优势。发展劳动密集型产业符合我国的比较优势。但是,比较优势并不等于竞争优势。比较优势也可理解为比较生产费用优势,它是由各国土地、劳力、资本等有形资源禀赋上的差别引起的。比较优势强调的是各国不同产业之间的竞争力比较,而竞争优势强调的是各国同一产业之间竞争力的比较。一国产业的比较优势只有通过竞争优势的发挥,才能得到最终体现。一个国家具有比较优势的产业,如果在国际市场上缺乏竞争力,没有一定的竞争优势,就难以实现其比较优势。     

比较经济学对中国经济理论发展的影响(1978～2005)

文章结合1978年以来中国经济理论的演进,论述了比较经济学在中国经济理论发展进程中所发挥的作用与影响。文章认为,比较经济学对中国经济理论发展的影响主要表现在以下三个方面:对中国经济理论范式转换的影响,对中国经济理论的方法论的影响以及对中国社会主义市场经济理论发展的影响等。分析表明:中国经济理论是在中国经济改革的实践探索中得到检验和发展的。在中国经济理论发展进程中和改革开放形成的中外学术交流的背景下,比较经济学在中国的传播促进了中国经济理论的发展。     

环境规制对比较优势的影响

在古典和新古典贸易理论中,一国的贸易模式取决于该国的比较优势。本文的研究结果表明,发达国家环境规制的严格化使得发展中国家重度污染密集型产业的比较优势得到相对的强化,而对中、轻度污染产业的影响则依据产业的不同而不同。文章还以我国纺织服装业为例作了进一步分析。最后,作者从环境规制的完善、产业结构调整及环境成本内在化几个方面提出了政策建议。     

The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development

A middle class consensus is defined as a high share of income for the middle class and a low degree of ethnic divisons. The paper links a middle class consensus to resource endowments, along the lines of the provocative thesis of Engerman and Sokoloff (1997 and 2000). This paper exploits this association using tropical resource endowments as instruments for inequality. A higher share of income for the middle class and lower ethnic divisions are associated with higher income and higher growth, as well as with more education, better health, better infrastructure, better economic policies, less political instability, less civil war and ethnic minorities at risk, more social modernization and more democracy.