A comparison of the Beveridge curve dynamics in Italy and USA

In this article, we investigate the Beveridge curve dynamics in the USA and Italy by means of a cointegrated structural VAR model. A simple economic model is introduced to motivate the identifying assumptions of the empirical analysis. A stable long-run relationship is found for both countries. In order to study the dynamic behaviour of the model, and to decompose unemployment and vacancy fluctuations, we identify three common stochastic trends. The empirical results suggest that there are some sources of hysteresis in unemployment in both countries. Transitory shocks are also identified to account for the short-run dynamics of the model. The approach allows us to detach the long-run from the short-run dynamics, in order to provide information on the cyclical and structural Beveridge curve.     

The Bologna Process and widening participation in university education: new evidence from Italy

This paper extends previous work on the effect of the Bologna reform on university enrolment in Italy. The analysis considers more recent data and also attempts to disentangle the effect of the reform from the influence on enrolment exerted by time-varying confounding factors. The empirical findings consistently show that the “Bologna Process” had a positive impact on university participation, though the magnitude of this impact is smaller than previously concluded. One main reason for our lower estimates lies in the use of a difference-in-differences methodology, which allows us to control for the influence on enrolment exerted by unobserved factors that could have changed coincidentally at the same time as the reform.     

循环经济内在稳定发展的政府角色分析

目前我国循环经济发展进程中,存在着诸多的不稳定因素.本文认为,循环经济主体参与的根本原因应是基于利益的驱动,而绝不仅仅是道德因素作用的结果;纯粹的市场调节无法达到目的,因此微观经济政策的制定与完善就显得尤为必要.本文研究并论证循环经济发展中市场机制的培育与政府角色的定位,提出了促进循环经济有效发展的政策取向.     

如何有效提高广西高职会计学原理课程的教学质量

会计学原理又称基础会计学,是高职高专经济管理专业的专业基础课程,更是会计专业课程的奠基石.文章结合广西高职会计专业学生的特点,从教学材料和教学方法两大方面论述如何提高会计学原理课程的教学质量.     

农村金融服务与现代农业发展探究

现代农业的发展离不开金融的支持,金融业的发展壮大同样不能缺少现代农业这个广阔的市场空间。近年来,尽管中国农村金融服务有大幅改善,但仍属于金融体系中的薄弱环节。通过深入分析现代农业发展中金融支持的重要性,及现阶段中国金融支持现代农业发展的主要不足,提出了一系列金融支持现代农业发展必要采取的方略,旨在为三农发展探索新的发展路径。     

检验检疫工作管理模式的研究

检验检疫工作的质量问题事关检验检疫事业发展的大局,要想提高工作质量,必须要对现有的工作管理模式进行研究、完善。随着市场经济的发展以及中国与其他国家的贸易往来的增多,检验检疫工作对象呈现高科技化、多样化等特点,这为现行检验检疫工作模式带来了较大的挑战。针对目前中国检验检疫工作遇到的新挑战,结合对检验检疫工作中存在的问题的分析与中国检验检疫的特点,给出完善检验检疫工作管理模式的方法建议。     

皖北地区经济发展滞后问题初探

产业结构单一,产业水平低,人才缺乏,资金不足等是制约皖北经济发展主要因素。皖北要加快发展,必须加速推进新型工业化进程;加强东引西联,扩大对外开放;明确发展目标,加速推进农业产业化进程;发展壮大中心城市。     

Stochastic dominance and thick-tailed wealth distributions

Right-skewed and thick-tailed wealth distributions have been documented as an empirical regularity across space and time. A key mechanism for explaining these distributional features is proportional random growth. We investigate the comparative statics of a well-defined class of random growth models when allowing for stochastically ordered shifts in the wealth return process. An order-contingent monotone comparative statics property is identified, according to which pure increases in risk (e.g. higher volatility of capital returns) foster top wealth concentration whereas first-order stochastically dominated shifts in the return process (induced by e.g. proportional capital income taxation) rather lower inequality at the upper end of the distribution. Our analysis points to the potentially ambiguous effects on top wealth inequality of introducing or modifying capital income tax treatments in the presence of stochastic returns.     

Exploring additional determinants of fixed broadband adoption: policy implications for narrowing the broadband demand gap

Using data from the survey ‘Aspects of daily life’ conducted on Italian individuals in 2014 by the Italian Institute of Statistics, we propose new evidence on the factors that encourage the adoption of fixed broadband, a topic relevant for the reduction of the so-called broadband demand gap. We estimate a probit model through the two-step Heckman procedure for the selection bias, and find that, besides the already studied socio-demographic determinants, Internet-capable devices other than personal computers, as well as recreational (essentially video contents) and cloud-related uses of the Internet, have a relevant positive role. Policies aimed at fostering the diffusion of smart homes and more generally of the Internet of things at the residential level might be very effective in favouring fixed broadband adoption, provided that the network be neutral, not discriminating between data based on their contents and/or the destination device, and that possible foreclosing behaviours in the access to (premium) contents be properly and promptly addressed.     

公司会计治理与公司治理:同构、嵌入还是交叉?

公司会计治理通常被看作是公司治理的一部分,而且将公司会计治理看作是嵌入公司治理中或与公司治理同构。因此,以公司治理为导向的会计治理强调弥合公司治理中委托代理关系链务的缺陷及其对审计独立性的影响。本文从会计信息产权演变的角度将公司会计治理从公司治理中“解析”出来,认为公司治理与公司会计治理同源于委托代理难题,但治理的基础和目标不同,公司治理的监督机制与会计治理对监督机制的内在需求是不同的,因此,公司会计治理结构与公司治理结构应该是交叉的或大部分同构,同属于现代企业组织制度的范畴。本文主张应按照公司会计治理的逻辑结构及其与公司治理的关联性对其进行研究和建构。