Regímenes de producción y relaciones laborales en el sector chino del automóvil

Las huelgas en el sector del automóvil acaecidas en China en 2010 suscitaron reformas sustanciales de las relaciones laborales en la provincia de Guangdong. A partir de una investigación empírica exhaustiva en empresas líderes de ensamblaje y en sus suministradoras, el autor construye una tipología de los regímenes de producción para analizar los cambios actuales de las relaciones laborales. Este marco ayuda a entender y a conceptualizar la diversidad creciente de regímenes en la industria china automotriz y la segmentación de la fuerza de trabajo a lo largo de la cadena de suministro. Se concluye con un análisis de las perspectivas de reforma ulterior.     

Legitimation of New Ventures: A Review and Research Programme

Research on how new ventures (NVs) achieve legitimacy is fragmented and rests on taken‐for‐granted assumptions that require problematization. Following a systematic literature review, I identify five distinct perspectives on NV legitimation: an institutional perspective, a cultural entrepreneurship perspective, an ecological perspective, an impression management perspective, and a social movement perspective. After comparing and contrasting these perspectives, I synthesize them into a generative and integrative typology. Based on this typology, I develop a new research programme. The programme widens the extant scholarship agenda by challenging its shared assumptions and contributes to further integration of the literature by building bridges between perspectives.     

Knowledge Types in Technology

Starting with the distinction of natural science, engineering science ("technology") and engineering practice ("technics"), the paper will stress the difference between technological and technical knowledge. The first part will discuss the relationship between science and technology, arguing that technology is a genuine type of knowledge rather than "applied science". In technics, however, even technological laws, as transformations of scientific laws, cover a certain part of knowledge only. The greater part of technical knowledge includes technical know-how, functional rules, structural rules, and socio-technological understanding, which is just developing in our times. The classification of knowledge types will be used for determining which kind of knowledge may seem appropriate to general technological education.     

An Overview of the Proximate Determinants of Economic Growth in Indonesia Since 1960*

In this paper, we address two questions. First, what determined the growth of GDP per worker in Indonesia from 1960 to 2014? We examine Indonesia’s economic performance, using a growth accounting framework. We show that economic growth during the Soeharto era after 1975 was mainly determined by an increase in capital accumulation. Negative growth in total factor productivity (TFP) during the Asian financial crisis was more noticeable in Indonesia than in comparable ASEAN countries. In Indonesia, the contribution of TFP growth turned persistently positive after 1999. Second, what are the key determinants of the GDP per worker differences between Indonesia and the United States? Using data from the recently updated Penn World Table database and employing a levels accounting method, we find that the gap in physical capital deepening between the two countries is of declining importance in explaining the gap in labour productivity between Indonesia and the United States. We then compare our findings with data from the World Bank’s Changing Wealth of Nations 2018.     

基于改进F-N曲线的滑坡可接受风险水平研究

滑坡灾害的可接受风险水平是滑坡领域的重要研究内容之一,它常常用F-N曲线直观地表示风险频率与后果之间的关系,然而这种传统方法的参数由人为确定,主观性强,缺乏理论依据,且同一个参数不能适用多个地区和风险.以滑坡灾害的相关规范为依据,用风险矩阵的方法做衔接,绘制出3种决策态度下的滑坡灾害可接受风险的F-N曲线.相比传统的方法,改进后的F-N曲线避免了以上缺陷,使得滑坡灾害可接受风险水平的确定更加精准,同时该方法也可运用到其他领域的相关规范,来研究其可接受风险水平.     

Packages with Cartoon Trade Characters Versus Advertising: An Empirical Examination of Preschoolers' Food Preferences

The present study examines mainly the comparison between child-appeal packages and TV advertising and suggests that packages with cartoon trade characters play a more effective role compared to TV advertising in preschoolers' food preferences.

Preschoolers who watched a cartoon film CD embedded with commercials (the treatment group) and who watched the same CD without commercials (the control group) selected the chocolate wafer with a cartoon trade character (73.6% vs. 26.3%) rather than the advertised one.     

Effects of State-Dependent Forward Guidance,Large-Scale Asset Purchases,and Fiscal Stimulus in a Low-Interest-Rate Environment

We study the incidence and severity of periods with a binding effective lower bound on nominal interest rates and the efficacy of three types of state-dependent policies—forward guidance about the path of future interest rates, large-scale asset purchases, and spending-based fiscal stimulus—in mitigating the detrimental consequences of the lower bound for macro-economic stability. Based on the ECB's New Area-Wide Model of the euro area, our findings suggest that, if left unaddressed, the lower bound can cause substantial macro-economic distortions. In the near term, forward guidance, if fully credible, is most powerful and can largely undo these distortions. A combination of imperfectly credible forward guidance, asset purchases, and fiscal stimulus is almost equally effective, especially when asset purchases enhance the credibility of the forward-guidance policy via a signaling effect. In the long run, with an equilibrium real rate as low as zero, a combination of all three policies is needed to materially reduce the distortions.     

Specialization in Bank Lending: Evidence from Exporting Firms

We develop a novel approach for measuring bank specialization using granular data on borrower activities and apply it to Peruvian exporters and their banks. We find that borrowers seek credit from banks that specialize in their export destinations, both when expanding exports and when exporting to new countries. Firms experiencing country-specific export demand shocks adjust borrowing disproportionately from specialized banks. Specialized bank credit supply shocks affect exports disproportionately to countries of specialization. Our results demonstrate that firm credit demand is bank- and activity-specific, which reduces banking competition and affects the transmission and amplification of shocks through the banking sector.