高职院校教学管理方法和管理人员的思考与研究

教学管理是高职院校教育管理的一项重要的核心内容,而教学管理人员则是高职院校教学管理的直接参与者和执行者。本文分析了现阶段高职院校教学管理人员的管理现状,提出高职院校管理人员所需的素质和一系列管理方法的创新手段,旨在使教学管理方法上升到"科学、轻松、高效"的台阶。     

城市轨道交通融资模式要素:从理论到实践

城市轨道交通融资模式组成要素与分类方法的标准化是模式比选和决策的基础。通过相关理论分析、总结实践做法等方式识别轨道交通可行的融资模式。采用的理论工具包括项目区分理论、公共物品理论等,案例包括伦敦、巴黎、北京等国内外13个城市和北京4号线、深圳4号线等应用创新性融资模式的具体项目。然后基于识别的融资模式总结轨道交通融资模式的四个主要组成要素,即投资主体、运营主体、资金来源和政府支持方式,并分别归纳出每个要素包含的不同备选方案,组成融资模式比选库,进而建立了城市轨道交通融资模式的一种标准化分类方法。所有融资模式可以通过形如AiBiCiDi的四要素方案构成进行描述和区分,为融资模式评价与比选的研究与实践提供参考依据。     

Comparative randomized inverse sampling

According to previous literature, we define randomized inverse sampling for comparing two treatments with respect to a binary response as the sampling that stops when a total fixed number of successes, irrespective of the treatments, are observed. We have obtained elsewhere the asymptotic distributions for the counting variables involved and have shown them to be equivalent to the corresponding asymptotic distributions for multinomial sampling. In this paper, we start deriving the same basic results using different techniques, and we then show how they give rise to genuinely novel procedures when translated into finite sample approximations. As the main example, a novel confidence interval for the logarithm of the odds ratio of two success probabilities can be constructed in the case of comparative randomized inverse sampling. Some advantages over the standard multinomial sampling in terms of coverage probabilities are visible when no adjustment for cells with zero counts is applied; otherwise, the two sampling schemes appear to be fairly equivalent. This is a reassurance that under certain circumstances, inverse sampling can be safely chosen over more traditional sampling schemes.     

“Relative Importance of Risk Sources in Insurance Systems”, Edward W. Frees,April 1998

Abstract

This paper considers a Sparre Andersen collective risk model in which the distribution of the interclaim time is that of a sum of n independent exponential random variables; thus, the Erlang(n) model is a special case. The analysis is focused on the function φ(u), the expected discounted penalty at ruin, with u being the initial surplus. The penalty may depend on the deficit at ruin and possibly also on the surplus immediately before ruin. It is shown that the function φ(u) satisfies a certain integro-differential equation and that this equation can be solved in terms of Laplace transforms, extending a result found in Lin (2003). As a consequence, a closed-form expression is obtained for the discounted joint probability density of the deficit at ruin and the surplus just before ruin, if the initial surplus is zero. For this formula and other results, the roots of Lundberg’s fundamental equation in the right half of the complex plane play a central role. Also, it is shown that φ(u) satisfies Li’s (2003) renewal equation. Under the assumption that the penalty depends only on the deficit at ruin and that the individual claim amount density is a combination of exponential densities, a closed-form expression for φ(u) is derived. In this context, known results of the Cauchy matrix are useful. Surprisingly, certain results are best expressed in terms of divided differences, a topic deleted from the actuarial examinations at the end of last century.     

Local banking and local economic growth in Italy: some panel evidence

This article provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level – the Italian ‘province’) in Italy. A comprehensive data set is used, which includes control variables for social capital and human capital as well as indicators of the quality of local infrastructures and the production structure of the local economy. A linear within-estimator technique with fixed effects is applied to a modified version of the so-called Barro regression in order to address the well-known econometric issues of reverse causality and estimation bias resulting from unobserved district-specific influences.     

Dynamic no-good-deal pricing measures and extension theorems for linear operators on L ∞

In an L ^∞-framework, we present majorant-preserving and sandwich-preserving extension theorems for linear operators. These results are then applied to price systems derived by a reasonable restriction of the class of applicable equivalent martingale measures. Our results prove the existence of a no-good-deal pricing measure for price systems consistent with bounds on the Sharpe ratio. We treat both discrete- and continuous-time market models. Within this study we present definitions of no-good-deal pricing measures that are equivalent to the existing ones and extend them to discrete-time models. We introduce the corresponding version of dynamic no-good-deal pricing measures in the continuous-time setting.     

OUTPUT FLUCTUATIONS PERSISTENCE: DO CYCLICAL SHOCKS MATTER?

The aim of this paper is to identify the different sources of persistence of output fluctuations. We propose an unobserved components model that allows us to decompose GDP series into a trend component and a cyclical component. We let the drift of the trend component switch between different regimes according to a first‐order Markov process. To calculate an appropriate p‐value for a test of linearity we propose a bootstrap procedure, which allows for general forms of heteroscedasticity. The performance of the bootstrap is checked by means of a Monte Carlo simulation. Our study concerns the USA. We find that cyclical shocks appear to play an important role on the observed persistence of output.     

Old Wine in New Bottles: Patenting Propensity

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade - Although patenting propensity has been an old topic, our understanding of it is still fragmentary due to the complexity in the decision-making and the...