Perceptions of domain experts on impact of foresight on policy making: The case of Japan

In this study, the perceptions of domain experts who participated in foresight activities on the impact on policy making are examined by conducting interviews and surveys on five previous foresights in Japan between 1996 and 2007. The purpose of the study is to examine how domain experts look at the practice of foresight in general, and perceive its overall impact on policy making in particular, in the setting of Japanese foresight conducted in the past 15 years. There are two tasks for doing that in this study: to know the views of scientists and engineers who participated in foresights on the impact of foresights they participated; and to know the effect of respondent's characteristics on their perceptions on impact.There are two main findings of this study. First, the impact on policy making perceived by domain experts who participated in foresight activities in Japan is not very high. Second, there are different patterns of perception on the size of the impact on policy making depending on ages, organizations, member status during foresight, and science and technology areas, and habit of following the situation in general looking for any impacts after the foresight.     

人工智能的财富分配效应研究*

人工智能对经济不平等的影响引起学术界的广泛重视，但是现有研究以分析其对劳动收入不平等的影响为主，关于人工智能对财富分配从而对财产性收入不平等影响的相关研究尚有欠缺。本文通过构建一个连续时间异质性个体动态一般均衡模型，将人工智能对生产技术的影响看作一揽子偏向性技术进步，研究人工智能技术对财富分配的影响。分析发现，人工智能对财富不平等的影响在短期和长期表现有所不同，短期中人工智能技术的应用会提高经济中财富分配不平等程度，而长期中其财富分配效应则取决于人工智能对不同类型技术进步的促进程度。核心机制在于，人工智能技术进步的多样性在短期和长期中对资本回报率产生不同影响，短期中各类技术进步总是会提高资本回报率，而在长期，不同类型的技术进步对资本回报率的影响出现差异。基于以上结论，本文就我国如何在应用人工智能促进增长的同时预防不平等程度扩大提出了政策建议。     

国内外旅游对经济增长影响研究综述

在梳理国内外相关文献的基础上,文章对国内外旅游对经济增长的影响研究进行了较为详细的比较综述。国外的旅游经济增长影响研究始于19世纪末,兴盛于1960年代,研究焦点集中在基于出口驱动型经济增长假说的入境旅游对经济增长的影响、旅游专业化对经济增长的影响及基于收敛假说的旅游对区域经济均衡增长的影响三个方面。国内研究始于1990年代,研究焦点为旅游产业地位及其与经济增长关系的判断。国内外相关研究既有共同点,也有差异。旅游对区域经济增长及其均衡发展的影响开始受到关注。     

Firm age and performance

Amid increasing interest in firm age and its effects on firm performance, this special issue offers an exhaustive review of the literature and a novel collection of evidence on the effects of firm age on performance, including a special focus of interest on innovation performance, financial performance, exports, survival and growth. This editorial positions the theme in the extant literature, and provides key definitions and challenges ahead in the field of evolutionary economics. It introduces the collection of articles composing the special issue. The papers offer a diversity of country contexts, as well as analytical approaches and methods. They include an exhaustive review of the literature on age and firms’ performance, and present original empirical studies focusing on the effects of age on firms’ economic outcomes on the one hand, and on innovation outcomes on the other hand. While most of the papers use econometric analysis, the level of analysis ranges from firm to individual.     

Breaking the Fence: Can Patent Rights Deter Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'?

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a 'medical anti-commons' has been predicted as a result of a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys that shed light on this issue are mainly from developed countries, making it very difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in 'technology follower' developing countries. Based on the framework developed in the paper, empirical data collected in an industry-level survey of the Indian pharmaceutical industry between November 2004 and January 2005 is used to analyze the impact of patent rights as recognized under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) on biomedical innovation in technology followers.     

Distribution of wealth and incomplete markets: Theory and empirical evidence

This paper analyses the equilibrium distribution of wealth in an economy where firms’ productivities are subject to idiosyncratic shocks, returns on factors are determined in competitive markets, households have linear consumption functions and government imposes taxes on capital and labour incomes and equally redistributes the collected resources to households. The equilibrium distribution of wealth is explicitly calculated and its shape crucially depends on market incompleteness. With incomplete markets it follows a Paretian law in the top tail and the Pareto exponent depends on the saving rate, on the net return on capital, on the growth rate of population, and on portfolio diversification. The characteristics of the labour market crucially affects the bottom tail, but not the upper tail of the distribution of wealth in the case of completely decentralized labour market. The analysis also suggests a positive relationship between growth and wealth inequality. The theoretical predictions find a corroboration in the empirical evidence of United States in the period 1989-2004.     

对农村环境教育的思考——基于滇池、洱海湖滨区农村的实地调查

将对洱海、滇池湖滨区两个村庄的实地调查结果与我国农村环境教育研究文献综述结合在一起分析,对农村环境教育的对象、教育内容体系的构建以及教育方式进行了思考,提出当前的农村环境教育多面向农村中小学开展,而从环境行为学的角度来看,引起当地环境问题产生的行为主体主要是农村成年劳动力,故须以他们为主开展农村环境教育,在教育内容与教育活动方式上贴近当地农民的实际发展需求。同时,各地情况不一,教育内容与教育方式亦须因村而异因人而异有所调整。     

政府背景风险投资对创新的甄选与培育效果——不同区域环境视角的检验

以创业板企业数据为样本,使用Logit模型及工具变量法,研究不同区域环境下政府背景风险投资对企业创新的事前甄选与事后培育作用,并对其机制进行探讨。结果表明：①经济区域对政府背景风险投资行为影响有限,与非核心发达地区相比,金融发达地区的政府背景风险投资对企业技术创新没有表现出差异性甄选行为,但却有更好的事后培育作用,而且这种培育作用会随着地区投资环境优化而增强;②行政区域对政府背景风险投资行为影响显著,与异省投资相比,本省政府背景风险投资对技术创新的事前甄选具有显著优势,但对被投企业后续创新投入产生了一定的负面作用,这种作用会因政府背景风险投资占有董事会席位而加大。     

休闲惠顾动机解析——量表的编制及百货店惠顾行为实证研究

零售行业只有科学地研究零售惠顾行为，才能在此基础上制定零售管理和经营的策略。惠顾动机帮助我们解释很多复杂的行为和现象。国外现有的研究对惠顾动机维度的解释尤如丛林，但在国内还没有进行过惠顾动机量表的开发，这使得有关惠顾行为的进一步研究没有基础。本文认为，双维度和多维度观点根本不同之处就是对“休闲娱乐型”动机维度的解析。本文以百货商店惠顾为零售惠顾的任务范围，开发了量表，进行了实证研究。发现休闲娱乐惠顾动机可以细分成七个维度，建议百货店管理者根据目标顾客的动机结构，在营销策略上进行适应性调整。     

中国城市社区管理体制研究综述

围绕三个方面，对十几年来中国城市社区管理体制研究的重要成果做系统综述：城市社区管理体制变迁的背景分析；城市社区管理体制基本理论的研究；城市社区管理体制改革实践的研究。在此基础上，从学科研究方向和实践模式分析的角度，对中国城市社区管理体制研究的未来方向提出几点建议。     

A Macro-Level Account of Money and Credit to Explain Gendered Financialization

ABSTRACT

The paper intervenes in the debate on macroeconomics, money, gender, and financialization. Generally, there is an omission in gender studies on gender-specific effects of monetary policy. Not only is there a blind-spot about the role of monetary policy in feminist political economy, there is equally a blind-spot in meso-level analysis which focus on the social construction of institutional mechanisms and the predatory market power of oligopolistic banks. Yet, monetary policy is neither neutral in the short-term nor long-term. Such policies have gender-differentiated effects on employment, income, consumption, savings which in turn have feed-back effects on economic growth. My intent is to focus on the changing role of monetary policy and highlight the omission in gender studies on financialization, as well as argue that the shift of the credit cycle to fictitious capital (future revenue) is one of the central explanatory variables in the predatory banking model of subprime lending. Yet, the financial crisis of 2007 did not usher in a normalisation of the credit and finance system. Exactly the opposite happened. Unconventional monetary policy continues to facilitate a credit system based on future claims which has gendered distributional effects, in the process increasing the wealth inequality on a global scale.     

心理契约破裂、领导信任与员工知识分享——以马基雅维利主义为调节

以社会交换理论为基础,系统性探讨心理契约破裂作用于员工知识分享的内在机理和情境机制。基于219名员工的有效调查问卷数据,结果发现：心理契约破裂对员工知识分享存在显著负向影响;领导信任在心理契约破裂与员工知识分享间发挥完全中介作用,但随着员工马基雅维利主义水平提高,领导信任的中介作用减弱;随着员工马基雅维利主义水平提高,领导信任对员工知识分享的正向影响减弱。     

ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN BANKING SERVICES

In order to examine theories of domestic and international trade in banking, information is presented in this paper on the vast array of service charges banks levy on their customers, both resident and non-resident, and the complex of interest rates on deposits and loans that must be collected. Examination is also necessary of collection procedures of the various charges which central banks levy on banks, as well as interest rates paid on reserves, insurance premia on deposits and the like in order to test propositions that international trade in banking is a function of the various monetary policies followed by Monetary Authorities.     

The impact of corporate and personal income taxes on the location of firms and on employment: some panel evidence for the Swiss cantons

The impact of corporate income taxes on location decisions of firms is widely debated in the tax competition literature. Tax rate differences across jurisdictions may lead to distortions of firms’ investment decisions. Empirical evidence on tax-induced relocation and subsequent economic development in the US and Europe is still inconclusive. Much the same applies to Switzerland. While there is some evidence on personal income tax competition between Swiss cantons, evidence on the impact of intercantonal corporate income tax differences on the location of business within Switzerland is missing. In this paper, we present econometric evidence on the influence of corporate and personal income taxes on the regional distribution of firms in 1981 and 1991 and on cantonal employment using a panel data set of the 26 Swiss cantons from 1985 to 1997. The results show that corporate and personal income taxes deter firms to locate in a canton and subsequently reduce cantonal employment.     

环境规制对制造业绿色全要素生产率的影响研究——基于碳排放权交易政策的PSM-DID检验

随着我国环境规制体系的不断完善,环境规制在促进经济绿色发展中所发挥的作用越来越重要,其中2011年提出的碳排放权交易政策是这一体系中重要的一种环境规制制度。因此,在利用DEA-Malmquist指数法来测度中国2009—2017年30个省份制造业绿色全要素生产率的基础上,将2013年在试点省市正式实施的碳排放权交易政策作为一次准自然实验,采用倾向匹配得分的双重差分法(PSM-DID)研究了环境规制对制造业绿色全要素生产率的影响效应。实证研究表明:制造业绿色全要素生产率受环境规制的影响逐步改善,对MGTFP分解项的影响和对MGTFP的影响相一致。在对MGTFP分解项的影响中,技术进步所受的影响最大,纯技术效率所受的影响最小,综合技术效率所受到的影响要大于规模效率所受到的影响,产业结构、政府干预及城镇化对MGTFP及其分解项的影响存在差异,技术创新对MGTFP及其分解项的影响为正,对外开放对MGTFP分解项的影响为负,这与对MGTFP的影响一致。     

The heterogeneous effects of labor informality on VAT revenues: Evidence on a developed country

The value-added tax is spread in many countries primarily because it allows rising public revenues, but its revenue performance can be undermined in the presence of informality. We document the existence of heterogeneous effects of labor informality on VAT collection in a developed country such as Italy. By using novel regional administrative data on VAT revenues, we find that labor informality produces negative effects on total VAT collection, including VAT on production and consumption, and positive effects on VAT revenues from consumption only. We also find that the consequences of labor informality on VAT collection depend on the size of informality, by approximating an-inverted U-relation. As for Italy, we explain such heterogeneous effects with the presence of regional differences in labor market conditions. We also document that labor informality has heterogeneous effects on VAT collection when considering specific productive sectors, and the cyclical consequences of the Great Recession.     

基于状态空间模型的我国物流业对经济增长的传导效应研究

建立状态空间模型来揭示物流业对经济增长传导效应,通过卡尔曼滤波算法估计时变参数,发现1978年以来我国物流业对经济增长的传导效应明显分为两个阶段,并在此基础上提出了物流产业转型期提高物流业对经济增长传导的正弹性效应、发展物流业的路径选择。     

科技型创业者的创业背景研究——以福建沿海地区为例

在对科技型创业者创业背景的研究进行回顾的基础上,本文以针对福建沿海地区科技型创业者所做的调查为基本依据,对福建沿海地区科技型创业者的家庭背景、教育背景、年龄背景、性别背景、专业背景、工作经历背景等进行了探讨和分析,并将调研结论与现有创业学中有关创业背景的研究结论进行了比较。     

浅析统计信息失真的原因及对策

近年来一些领域和地方的统计信息失真现象严重,极大地影响了国家决策部门的决策行为,对国民经济的有效运行带来了严重的负面影响。本文对我国统计信息失真的原因进行了剖析,进而有针对性地提出了提高统计信息质量的相应对策。     

环境规制与我国经济增长关系的区域差异研究——基于东、中、西部地区三次产业部门的数据分析

本文以2001-2010年全国东部、中部和西部地区的面板数据为样本,将区域经济增长细化为三次产业经济的增长,通过建立面板数据模型,分区域研究环境规制对各产业部门的经济增长效应,研究发现环境规制水平对我国三次产业的影响呈现出明显的区域差异性。环境规制水平与东部和中部地区的第二、三产业呈显著的正向相关关系,对西部地区第二产业的发展有显著的正效应,而对东、中部地区的第一产业和西部地区的第一、三产业的增长无显著影响。因此,应当采取相应的政策措施,以促进各区域环境规制与经济增长的协调发展。