MONETARY POLICY IN A NON‐REPRESENTATIVE AGENT ECONOMY: A SURVEY

It is well known that central bank policies affect not only macroeconomic aggregates, but also their distribution across economic agents. Similarly, a number of papers demonstrated that heterogeneity of agents may matter for the transmission of monetary policy to macro variables. Despite this, the mainstream monetary economics literature has so far been dominated by dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with representative agents. This paper aims to tilt this imbalance towards heterogeneous agents setups by surveying the main positive and normative findings of this line of the literature, and suggesting areas in which these models could be implemented. In particular, we review studies that analyse the heterogeneity of (i) households’ income, (ii) households’ preferences, (iii) consumers’ age, (iv) expectations and (v) firms’ productivity and financial position. We highlight the results on issues that, by construction, cannot be investigated in a representative agent framework and discuss important papers modifying the findings from the representative agent literature.     

When an NGO Takes on Public Participation: Preparing a Plan for a Neighborhood in East Jerusalem

It is often non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote empowered participation processes, and assume active roles in leading them. However, the ability of NGOs to take on such processes is under‐theorized. In many cases empowered participation involving NGOs takes place without political support from above (or with limited or conditional support). Our goal in this article is to use a case study of participatory planning in East Jerusalem to theorize processes of empowerment in an oppositional political environment. We argue that it is useful to analyze such processes of empowered participation through the concept of power. We describe the process of empowerment as a speculative process in which the NGO has to hedge two mediums of power: it has to build the power of the community to discuss its own goals; and it has to simultaneously manage the transfer of decision‐making power from government bodies to the community.     

Mutual fund flows and window-dressing

We use a sequential game to analyze an agency problem in the mutual fund industry where a representative fund manager considers window-dressing his portfolio holdings for the purpose of attracting fund flows from a representative investor. The manager is motivated to window-dress to improve the investor's perception of managerial skill which may positively affect fund flows in the next period. However, the investor may suspect window-dressing and thus downgrade perceived managerial skill. The model supports a Bayesian Nash equilibrium where the manager window-dresses only when receiving a low return in the first period and the investor withdraws funds only when observing low returns in both periods. Consequently, we show that window-dressing is a rational behavior even when fund outflows may result.     

军队电子档案管理的现状和对策研究

随着办公自动化的发展和计算机的配置,电子文件成为工作中的主要工具,从而对电子档案的管理提上了日程。军队电子档案的管理的特殊性和重要性,成为档案工作者面临的新难题。本文在分析了军队电子档案管理特点的基础上,描绘了军队电子档案管理的现状,并提出了解决军队电子档案管理难题的具体对策。     

基于NETSTARS运用定床水理原理在河道疏浚中的应用

疏浚大多用于河道的过分淤积,拓宽则用于通水隘口的消除。而随着时空的演变河床疏浚与河槽拓宽的进行所需考虑的因子越来越多,故疏浚进行前应尽量考量整个河道的河性以及施工后可能引致的变动,使能维持预期的效果,并避免造成负面效应。本文主要以涧河为研究对象,利用NETSTARS拟似二维水理输砂模式,探讨河道疏浚后的水理与输砂演变趋势等相关课题。     

蜿蜒河道变迁与其对应治理工法的探讨

近年来人口快速成长及经济建设需要,随的人类对资源开发利用增加,而导致河道水文因子环境变迁及生物栖息环境严重破坏,河道治理对于蜿蜒河段是供大自然水生动植物栖息,而遵循自然法则与环境伦理演递,改善现有河道环境及造就河道廊道,让河道生态系维持平衡。本文主要研究伊河卢氏县以南44km的张村河段第二曲段的治理,经现场的调查与试验与工程规划设计,并为工程结合生态设计,以对应工程布置于蜿蜒河道的预期效果。     

Redistribution and growth: Pareto improvements

This paper analyzes the relationship between income distribution and economic growth. It introduces heterogeneous households who have preferences for leisure into Grossman and Helpman's model of endogenous growth (in which income distribution has no effect on economic growth). Wealth distribution affects the endogenous rate of growth as the labor supply of each individual responds inversely to his permanent income. When the labor Engel curve is concave (convex), unequal wealth distribution decreases (increases) the rate of growth. Pareto-improving-growth-enhancing wealth redistributions are characterized.     

多元化战略在中国旅游企业中的实施效率分析

文章对我国旅游企业的多元化战略管理进行了调查分析,从中总结出旅游企业的多元化战略实施的效率与非效率性的原因。     

“两型社会”建设背景下湖南低碳经济发展的现状与展望

目前,湖南低碳经济发展存在着不足,如：环境制度创新方面的不足、对低碳经济问题的认识欠缺、企业尚未进入技术升级主体的角色、企业尚未建立自主创新体系、知识产权保护制度不明晰,等。在两型社会背景下发展湖南低碳经济,要建立一套更加契合湖南省情、更具操作性和可行性的促进长株潭城市群的制度安排体系。     

培养青年人才提升国有企业竞争力

加入WTO以后，要提高国有企业的竞争力，必须注意培养青年人才，建立健全人才的培养和激励机制，强化青年人才资源的开发利用，各级政府要为国有企业青年人才资源的开发和利用创造良好的条件。