WTO框架下的反规避分析

受金融危机的影响,全球贸易保护主义的倾向日趋明显。认真研究贸易保护手段能为我国应对贸易保护主义提供理论上的指导。因为在国际范围内对反规避没有形成统一的条文规定,因此笔者主要是回顾多哈回合谈判中WTO主要参与国的会议讨论内容及争议点,并联系当今时代背景和中国的国情,提出了相应的政策建议。     

全球金融危机背景下的贸易保护主义应对

全球金融危机的蔓延使贸易保护主义重新抬头,新背景下的贸易保护不仅势头猛烈,而且形式更为复杂多样,我国出口贸易和经济发展由此受到了巨大影响.本文针对贸易救济措施、技术性贸易壁垒、蓝色壁垒等贸易保护主义形式,从我国产业自身发展的角度提出了应对措施和政策建议.     

积极应对日本的《肯定列表制度》

日本是我国农产品第一大出口市场，日本旨在加强食品中农业化学品残留管理的《肯定列表制度》的实施，将对我国的农产品出口造成巨大的影响。因此，我国政府部门和企业应采取措施，积极应对肯定列表制度。     

An econometric analysis of health care reform in the U.S.

This paper simulates the effects of funding a comprehensive health plan (CHP) on consumer spending in the U.S. using a demographically enhanced dynamic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Quarterly observations on personal consumption expenditures and the relevant price indices of seven major commodity and service groups in the U.S. for the period 1963. 1 through 1989.4 comprise our data set. Our results show that the CHP financing causes no significant adjustment on the demand-side of the economy, i.e., consumer expenditures on the seven major commodity and service groups would decrease slightly in the short run under the CHP financing. (JEL D00)     

Coping with the financiers: attracting venture capital investors and end-users in the biomaterials industry

A substantial amount of research has been committed to exploring how university-based research can be transferred to industry and be commercialised. This literature emphasises the substantial institutional, cultural and financial barriers to what has been referred to as academic entrepreneurship. At the same time, and most noteworthy in the USA, university patenting has grown remarkably since the mid-1960s; today (2014), much of the basic life science research conducted by universities is being transformed into health care innovations. This paper reports on a case study of the biomaterials and medical device industry in Sweden and emphasises that, while capital funding is a key challenge for university spin-outs, an additional and less widely recognised concern facing these companies is how to make the public sector health care organisations, primarily, actually buy the products developed. The study suggests that perhaps too much emphasis is being put on ‘upstream activities’, including the early stage support provided by incubators and state agencies that provide seed-money funding, while more mature biomaterials and medical device companies are suffering from both a lack of unified regulatory frameworks and policies governing the procurement of new health care innovations.     

Coping with deflation and the liquidity trap in the eurozone: A post Keynesian approach

The ghost of deflation is once again one of the main worries of policymakers. Recently deflation is indeed characterizing the eurozone. The renewed concern about deflation is due in part to the historical association of deflationary episodes with financial crises, recession, stagnation, and even depression. In deflationary conditions, nominal interest rates are more volatile because uncertainty increases and they may come close to their lower limit of zero: If a “liquidity trap” is at work, monetary policy is incapable of stimulating aggregate demand. This article seeks to show that to avoid a “Japanization” of the eurozone it is urgent to implement adequate economic policies in accordance with the post Keynesian approach. The European Central Bank in recent times has tried to do its best to save the situation through espansive monetary policies adopting both quantitative and qualitative easing. Unfortunately, these kinds of policies have tended more to prevent the recession from becoming far worse than enabling a significant fight against deflation and promoting economic recovery. Conventional and unconventional approaches in economic policy are investigated with a critical eye and contrasted with the theoretical insights suggested by post Keynesians.