Remedies for Microsoft

Thewisestsolutionwouldbeforthecompanyitselftoembraceabreak-upItmayhavecomeasashocktotheInaretsbutfewotherscanhavebeensmprisedthatMicrosofwasthisweekfoundguilty.TheJudgeintheantitrustcaseagainstthesoftwarefirmruledthatitwasamonopolythathaddemonstratedaPatternofabuse,done"violencetothecompetitiveprocess"and"placedanoppressivethumbonthescaleofcompetitivefortune,therebygUareteeingitscontinueddondnance".ThestrengthoftheverdictsuggeststhathoPesofanegotiat-edsettlementwerealwaysslim.Tooofteninthep…     

在现代管理中应用Excel

解决计算机技术与财经管理实践脱节的问题，不仅需要我们在教学工作中予以特别关注，同时也需要利用各种渠道来引导学生及社会各个层次管理人员认识并掌握现代管理中的计算机技术。在决策管理中Excel的应用将数学模型转变为相应的计算机模型。应用Excel所提供的函数、控件以及数据分析对象，能够使管理工作效率更高，决策更科学。     

微软诉讼背后的学术流派之争

自1998微软首次被美国地方法院起诉以来，围绕着微软是否违反了美国的《谢尔曼法》，美国的经济学界展开了激烈的争论。由于微软所从事行业的特殊性以及“微软奇迹”的影响巨大，微软诉讼案在美国社会引起了巨大的反响，几乎所有的美国知名经济学家都卷入了这场争论，或多或少地发表了自己的看法。尽管众多经济学家众说纷纭，看法不尽相同，但是总的来说，他们的看法可以归为泾渭分明的两大阵营：一方认定微软垄断了市场且实施了搭售的限制竞争行为，应该对其进行拆分，以维护市场的竞争性；另一方则认为由于市场范围难以确定，很难说微软垄…     

Let's put demography back into economics: Population pyramids in Excel

The economics curriculum today does not emphasize the study of population. This needs to change immediately because we are in the midst of another demographic sea change, slamming on the brakes right after a rapid acceleration during the last half of the twentieth century. Instead of glibly tossing a dependency ratio onto a slide, this article offers an easy way to improve demographic literacy using population pyramids. Simulation is used to explain the pyramid and its dynamic properties, and then real-world data are presented. Microsoft Excel's ability to act as a browser and download data with a single click of a button provides a flexible, powerful tool to explore historic, current, and predicted age-distributions of various countries. Download PopPyr.xlsm from https://archive.org/details/PopPyr.     

美国政府不再分解微软的原因及启示

2001年9月6日,美国司法部宣布将在下一阶段的反垄断官司中,不再要求将微软公司一分为二,同时也不再追究微软将“探索者” 测览器与“视窗”操作系统捆绑销售的责任。至此,这场一度曾被闹得沸沸扬扬的官司便告一段落。作为一个典型案例,探析一下美国政府这次不再分解微软的原因,对我国目前正在进行的反垄断法的制定与实施具有一定的启示。     

Excel Models for International Trade Theory and Policy: An Online Resource

URL: http://sites.google.com/site/jgilberteconomics/Home/excel/     

统计工作中几个Excel常用函数的使用体会

在基层统计的日常工作中,经常遇到加权求和的计算,如在计算企业能源消费量或工业产值时,还经常需要在会计报表或其他统计表中查找满足条件的数据。为提高基层统计工作效率,主要阐述使用SUMPRODUCT、HLOOKUP和MATCH函数提高工作效率的体会。     

The Economic Dynamics Of Software: Three Competing Business Models Exemplified Through Microsoft,Netscape And Linux

This article proposes three ideal business models to analyze innovation in knowledge-intensive goods and services. The three models are 1) Firm-based control. 2) Hybrid, and 3) Network-based. Each is defined in relation to the two sides of innovation, e.g. creation of novelty and of economic value. Defining the models this way leads to a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each model for organizing the development of different types of software and for appropriating economic benefits. Each business model is .also exemplified through the economic history of one example. The examples are, respectively. Microsoft, Netscape and Linux. The concluding section relates software development to the broader forms of economic dynamics in knowledge-intensive sectors.     

用EXCEL实现油气可采储量估算的蒙特卡洛模拟分析

本文介绍了蒙特卡洛(模拟)方法的原理以及Excel软件强大的函数计算功能和图表功能,并应用Excel建立油气可采储量估算的数学模型,然后进行蒙特卡洛模拟试验,最终估算出一个具有一定可信度的、比较合理的油气可采储量数值。     

浅谈VB中使用Excel的VBA对象制表

本文介绍了VB环境下制作数据报表的常用方法,着重介绍了在VB中使用Excel 的VBA对象制作数据报表的优点,详细阐述了数据报表的制作过程。     

Goodbye,Good Luck,See Ya Next Week——BusinessWeek talks to Bill Gates as his final day at Microsoft approaches

It's been one of the most carefully orchestrated transitions in corporate his- tory.Microsoft Chairman William H. GatesⅢannounced two years ago he would walk away from his day-to-day duties at the company he co-founded to spend more time working on philan-     

Committees with supermajority voting yield commitment with flexibility

A fundamental problem for government is how to combine commitment to certain policies with the flexibility required to adjust them when needed. Rogoff (1985) [Rogoff, K., 1985. The optimal degree of commitment to an intermediate monetary target, Q. J. Econ. 100(4) 1169–1189] showed that a way to strike the right balance is to appoint an optimally “conservative” policy-maker. In real life, however, policy-makers also have power over decisions where optimal plans are time-consistent, so delegating to a conservative person could be undesirable. A flexible delegation device can be found in a large committee of randomly appointed members voting over policy after observing a shock. When facing dynamic inconsistency, under a single-crossing property, there exists a supermajority rule that implements the population median's optimally conservative policy-maker with certainty. Another single-crossing property guarantees that if simple majority voting is used to select the voting rule that will govern policy choice, the supermajority preferred by the median is chosen. For problems where dynamic inconsistency vanishes, the committee will choose to make decisions by simple majority, implementing median outcomes. An application to monetary policy is developed. We show that the optimal supermajority is higher when dynamic inconsistency is more severe, when preferences are more homogeneous, and when the economy is less volatile.     

Competitive equilibrium with unawareness in economies with production

This paper investigates an extension of the GEI-unawareness framework by Modica et al. (Econ. Theory 12 (1998) 259) to economies with entrepreneurial production. Existence of equilibrium is guaranteed given decreasing returns to scale. Firm's value and investment decision in equilibrium are characterized. An example of commodity innovation shows that the effect of different degrees of awareness on investment decisions depend upon the degree of risk aversion. In the case of log preferences unawareness may not matter for commodity innovation, although this depends on other preference features.     

Endogenous Timing with Incomplete Information and with Observable Delay

This paper analyzes endogenous timing in a duopoly model with incomplete information. Firms announce the period in which they will move before choosing an action and are then committed to their choices. Endogenous Stackelberg equilibria, with either the informed or the uninformed firm as the Stackelberg leader, may emerge. For most parameters, the Cournot equilibrium in the first production period results endogenously. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C72; C73; D82; L10.