Recent Developments in Empirical Industrial Organization

This article is an annotated bibliography of recent empirical research in industrial organization, with emphasis on material subsequent to that covered by the Handbook of Industrial Organization.     

Recent topics in Applied Financial Economics

This note discusses topics concerning recent evolutions in financial economics research. It focuses in particular on the progress of quantitative finance and applied economics in the context of the global financial crisis. To this end, I examine various important topics in Economics and Finance and discuss several empirical studies on the statistical properties of macroeconomic and financial data through the application of different econometric methodologies. I analyse their empirical findings and discuss their conclusions.     

企业规模研究的最新进展

学术界关于企业规模的研究文献大致可以归为四大类.第一类是关于企业规模分布的,主要讨论企业增长、规模以及最终的分布形式.第二类是关于企业规模报酬的,主要讨论企业的规模与其盈利性之间的关系.第三类是关于企业规模决定的,主要讨论企业规模(边界)的影响因素.第四类是关于企业规模极限的,主要讨论企业规模最大能有多大.本文集中讨论这四类文献在理论和经验方面的最新研究进展.     

Recent Developments in the Theory of the Firm

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This article reviews recent literature on the theory of the firm. The issues addressed include the role and determinants of the size of firms, the financial structure and organisation of labour in firms, and the policy implications of this research .     

Econometrics for Evaluations: An Introduction to Recent Developments

There has recently been a rapid expansion of interest in the econometrics of program evaluation, both within Australia and around the world. We provide a review of the key issues and recent developments in this field. A central feature of recent developments is the attempt to allow for program impacts that vary across individuals. This contrasts with earlier econometric approaches that implicitly assumed a homogeneous treatment effect. We survey alternative nonexperimental estimation strategies and note that they can be characterised by (1) an assumption about how untreated outcomes vary across individuals: this assumption in turn suggests how the counter-factual untreated outcomes of program participants should be estimated, and (2) the way in which the estimator aggregates or weights the program impacts of different individuals in the treatment group. We also emphasise the importance of good data.     

风险投资中的创新度量:指标、缺陷及最新进展

在研究风险投资与创新之间的关系时,如何衡量创新,一直是学术界所关注的问题.本文通过对相关文献进行详尽梳理,从文献中常用的研发费用、专利、商标、直接创新数据、基于文献的创新指标(LBIO)和要素生产率的角度出发进行分析,并对这些指标的优劣进行比较,目的是从整体上把握不同指标的特点,进而为实证分析提供指导.