The Status of Econometrics in the Economics Major: A Survey

In this article, the authors describe the place of econometrics in undergraduate economics curricula in all American colleges and universities that offer economics majors as listed in the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges 2010” guide (U.S. News & World Report 2009). Data come from online catalogs, departmental Web sites, and online course syllabi. About one-third of the schools require econometrics of all students majoring in economics, about half require it of none, and a sixth require it of some, but not all, economics majors. Among universities with economics PhD programs and liberal arts colleges, almost all those ranked in the top 10 require it. Below the top 10, there is little correlation between ranking and econometrics requirements. Liberal arts econometrics classes are much more likely to require research projects than their counterparts in universities.     

A Review of Selected Bioeconomic Models with Environmental Influences in Fisheries

Bioeconomic models are integrated economic-ecological models, with all the advantages and disadvantages of such models. Most bioeconomic modelling seeks appropriate levels of stock and catch to assist resource managers, normally with environmental conditions assumed constant. However, bioeconomic models can be used to analyse the welfare effects of changes in environmental quality as well. This latter application is the subject of this review. The review concentrates on the commercial harvesting of fish stocks, where population dynamics are influenced by environmental quality. In the first part of the paper, the basic static and dynamic bioeconomic models are described and then extensions are considered that take account of the influence of environmental quality on habitat and, by inference, on sustainable catch levels and measures of economic surplus. The second part of the paper describes a series of case studies from the empirical bioeconomic literature that apply some of the theoretical innovations described earlier. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The Endogeneity of Money: Evidence from the G7

For many years economists have argued that the money supply is endogenously determined. However, it has often been suggested that monetary regimes differ in important institutional respects and it may be that endogeneity may be true for some regimes and not for others. The aim of this paper is to test for endogeneity of money supply in the G7 countries and also to detect the existence of any interaction between the demand for bank lending and the demand for money by using recently developed techniques of causality tests. Our findings suggest that broad money is endogenous. However, the ability of the demand for loans to cause deposits is not, it seems, unconstrained by the demand for those deposits. Agents do not simply absorb whatever flow of new deposits loans might create.     

国内应用语言学界结构方程模型应用研究回顾

自1999年国内第一篇基于结构方程模型（SEM）的应用语言学论文发表至今,已经历了10年多的时间,此间多篇有关SEM的文章在国内主要学术期刊相继出现。本文对这些研究进行回顾与总结。总体看来,研究者对SEM的认识与应用水平有明显提高,但同时也存在一些问题与局限。国内SEM应用研究领域仅限于二语习得和语言测试,已发表的学术论文全部属于横向研究,研究课题多集中在英语写作之上。最后指出,须做好结构方程模型在我国应用语言学界的应用及推广,充分发挥其优势,以提高研究者的研究水平、效率和质量。     

Rational Actor Theory in Politics: A Critical Review of John Quiggin*

John Quiggin's paper attacks public-choice theory. among other things, for its us? of the assumption of ‘rational egoism’. The object of our response is twofold. First. to distinguish egoism from rationality, and to indicate that rationality postulates, when faithfully applied, provide reasons for believing that political behaviour and market behaviour will be systematically different, and specifically that the former will be less egoistic than the latter. Second, to indicate that comparative static propasitions in public-choice theory (and in economics more generally) can be sustained on rather weaker behavioural assumptions than homo economicus embodies, and that consequently some of the public-choice orthodoxy would survive any attack on the egoism assumption.     

中国农村金融问题研究的演进:一个理论方法述评

中国农村金融问题的理论研究已经取得较为丰富的成果,也积累了大量的研究文献.将从方法论角度对相关文献加以梳理,旨在对中国农村金融问题研究的发展状况作一个透彻的了解,以期对农村金融问题研究的方法论作出恰当的评价,为中国农村金融问题的更深入研究提供方法论上的准备.     

股权结构与公司绩效关系研究综述——基于内生性和动态性视角

国内外有关股权结构与公司绩效关系的研究文献非常丰富,但这些文献绝大部分都先验地把股权结构作为外生变量来处理,认为二者是从股权结构到公司绩效的一种单向静态关系。在这种假设下,得出的结论与观察到的事实并非一致。股权结构不是一个独立外生变量,而是包括绩效在内的多种因素共同作用的均衡结果。它不仅受当期和上期绩效的作用,同时也可能对当期和下期绩效产生影响,即股权结构不仅是内生的,而且还是动态的。本文综述了国内外目前在这方面的最新研究成果。     

实证会计理论的发展:反思与展望

本文从实证会计理论目前面临的主要问题出发,以宽广的视角检定了目前主流实证理论的主要背景假设,并探讨了共对会计理论发展的影响。论文通过一个简单的分析性框架,对目前实证会计主流理论和中国斩实证会计研究发展进行了批判性地审视,提出了我们关于实证会计研究未来发展的一个展望。中国的实证会计尽管有着广阔的发展前景,但这种前景不应是对西方实证会计理论发展过程的简单重复。     

股权结构与公司绩效:基于动态内生性视角的经验证据

在股权结构与公司绩效关系的研究中,已有文献大都先验地把股权结构作为外生变量来处理,并认为二者之间是一种静态关系。本文以1999～2008年间沪、深两市509家上市公司为研究对象,在动态面板数据模型中控制住内生性问题的影响后发现:(1)在静态分析框架下,第一大股东持股与绩效之间是相互影响的,但管理层持股与绩效之间无任何显著性关联;(2)在动态分析框架下,股权结构与绩效之间存在跨期动态作用的可能,不过证据比较微弱,它受绩效变量的影响。以上结论具有一定的政策含义。     

Richer Harvests: A CAI Approach to Teaching Fisheries Economics

A computer spreadsheet is shown to have an important role in helping students come to grips with some of the analytical complexities of the economics of fisheries.     

Rebuilding Strategies for Multispecies Fisheries: A Stylized Bioeconomic Model

In this paper, we investigate the bioeconomicimpacts of selected rebuilding strategies in amultispecies fishery. Using a stylizedbioeconomic model, we identify the conditionsunder which modifying the species selectivityproperties of the gear would contribute to therebuilding of over-exploited stocks. We examinethe cases where the stocks are biologicallyindependent and interdependent. Our analysissuggests that the success of the rebuildingprocess not only depends on the nature of thegear modifications but also on the biologicaland economic characteristics of the fishery.     

中国商业银行存款定价模型的实证分析

本文分析3中国15家商业银行2002年的存贷款规模、营业费用、人力费用等数据之间的关系，构建了银行存款的价格模型，并对该模型的经济意义进行了解释。通过该模型，只需了解某银行的存款规模便可以测算出该行存款的单位平均成本、总成本和边际成本等重要信息。     

Principles of Econometrics: A Modern Approach Using Eviews by Sankar Kumar Bhaumik

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西方可持续性经济学研究的主要理论问题及其评价

可持续性经济学是20世纪60年代以来在西方经济学界逐渐形成并发展起来的一门新兴的、交叉型和应用型经济学科。尽管西方经济学界对可持续性经济学从概念、特征、研究范畴、研究方法和制度背景等诸多方面并没有形成一个统一而明确的认识,但可持续性经济学的有关理论已成为可持续发展实践的基础和重要指导。通过对西方可持续性经济学研究的主要理论问题进行梳理与评价,一方面可以揭示西方在该学科领域一些关键理论问题上的研究进展,另一方面也为我国构建具有中国特色、适合中国国情的可持续性经济学的理论和实践提供借鉴。     

The Role of Nonattenuated Rights in Positive Economics: A Critical Appraisal

This article assesses the institutionalist elements of Friedrich Hayek's neoliberal political economy by presenting his views on the entangled relations between the state and markets in capitalism. Through the analysis of Hayek's work, the article contributes to further consolidating the view that neoliberalism is an ideological project of institutional transformation which, despite some enduring myths, has an irreplaceable role for a state with many important functions in a more limited democracy. Markets, for their part, are politically contested social constructions that depend on previous non-market institutions for their existence and legitimation. This paper argues that Hayek's work corroborates this institutionalist claim.     

Enjoying Catch and Fishing Effort: The Effort Effect in Recreational Fisheries

Recreational fishermen derive utility from catch and fishing effort. Building our analysis on the Gordon-Clark model for renewable resources, we show that a lower importance of catch may result in higher catches. While this effect also holds under first-best management, it may destabilize open-access recreational fisheries to the point of stock collapse. Technical progress in recreational fisheries may mask such dynamics as it enables unaltered angler behavior and constant catches during stock declines.