大国协调与国际安全治理

大国协调是大国共同管理国际冲突与危机的一种多边安全机制。它主要通过会议外交和协商、共识来决策,并依据一致性、合法性、责任性、包容性和自我克制等共有规则与规范行事。从发展进程看,它经历了应对军事安全的传统大国协调和应对综合安全的新大国协调两个不同历史时期。由于大国协调在维持国际和平和解决重大国际危机中发挥着无可替代的作用,因此已成为国际安全治理的主渠道。目前的新大国协调既是对传统大国协调的重要延续,又出现了一些新的变化,如安全议题的多领域、会议机制的多轨道和常设性、成员数量的增多、规则与规范的低法律化和非强制性等。总体上看,在当前的国际环境中,新大国协调比传统大国协调更容易推行,但也存在诸多现实问题,因而必须从合法性、授权性和集中性诸方面予以改进。合法性主要是增强法律化和责任性;扩大授权性可以与权威国际组织缔结成一种委托-代理的关系;集中性的核心是建立一种更具内聚性的新的大国协调,即全球治理中心机制。     

The Real Cost of Financial Capital in the United States,Japan and Korea: Comparison and Convergence Tests

This paper presents alternative measures of the real cost of financial capital in the United States, Japan, and Korea over the 1975-90 period. Japan's cost of financial capital was the lowest among the three countries studied. The U.S. real cost of financial capital was higher than the Korean real cost. Our statistical analyses provide some evidence for shrinking the gap in the real financial costs of Japan and Korea vis a vis the United States. This is the reflection of increasing goods market integration and financial liberalization occurring in Japan and Korea. [F36, G15]     

Endogenous Growth and Trade Liberalization

We develop an endogenous growth model in which trade liberalization has a positive effect on growth. This effect does not depend on marginal re-allocations nor on knowledge-spillovers. Rather, it is due solely to the increase in market size following the integration of product markets. Our result contradicts a widely-help view that trade on physical goodsper sehas no consequences for long-run growth.[F15]     

Long-Run Elasticities of the Demand for Money in Korea:Evidence from Cointegration Analysis

Most recent studies have employed the cointegration technique to investigate the long-run stability of the demand for money. This study considers the case of Korea. It is shown that in the long-run while Ml monetary aggregate is cointegrated with income, interest rate, and the exchange rate, M2 is not. However, results from error correction models reveal that both Ml and M2 have short-run relationship with their determinants. [E41]     

Sampling frame coverage and domain adjustment procedures for internet surveys

The objective of this paper is to define and compare alternative sampling frames for the representative population coverage as a basis for sample selection in internet surveys. The study aims to provide a methodology for domain weighting and adjustment procedures for free access web surveys that are based on the restricted access surveys. Some basic variables can be proposed for the data adjustment, namely gender breakdown, age groups, and education groups. The application of our work consists of a first stage based on a web survey by an e-mail invitation (restricted access) and a second stage based on a voluntary participation web survey (free access). An advertising company’s registered customer list was taken as the sampling frame population for the first stage. This frame was an electronic e-mail list of the population of registered customers. Two different types of questionnaire were loaded on the company’s internet web site for a month each, for two independent rounds, for testing the visual aspects of the questionnaire design. The restricted access internet survey design relies on probability selection procedures in this study. These results are used with the provided algorithms for the adjustment procedures of free access web surveys. A new methodology is also proposed for the estimation and allocation of the population frame characteristics of adult internet users by gender and age groups. The proposed alternative methodologies will be beneficial tools for future web survey users.     

An Experimental Study of Cognitive Dissonance,Product Involvement,Expectations, Performance and Consumer Judgement of Product Performance

Abstract

This experimental study investigates the effects of cognitive dissonance, expectations, and product performance on product evaluations. The study improves upon the methodological problems of the past experimental studies. The results of a 2×2×2 factorial design suggest that product involvement acts as a moderator in the postdecisional product evaluation process. The theoretical and empirical findings suggest communication guidelines for the advertisers.     

Cross‐border Insolvency and Legal Transnationalisation

The last 20 years has seen an explosion of approaches for dealing with an inevitable consequence of globalised markets, that of cross‐border insolvencies. This article places phenomena such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Model Law on Cross‐border Insolvency and Cross‐border Insolvency Agreements (also known as Protocols) within the context of developing laws on international commercial transactions. First, it briefly describes the evolution of the international commercial law (sometimes known as the law merchant) to provide a context to understanding the international commercial responses to the problems created by cross‐border insolvencies. Next, it outlines the range of approaches being adopted by states and multilateral bodies in recent decades to resolve cross‐border insolvency issues. Finally it draws some preliminary conclusions on the potential implication of this transnationalisation process and broader international commercial law perspective, in particular on the capacity of cross‐border insolvency agreements to address cross‐border insolvency issues. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

采用边界元法研究槽形波导的色散特性

本文提出了用边界元法分析槽形波导的方法。推导出了有关表达式,并对一典型例子进行了研究,计算了其色散特性;得到的数据均与其它方法的结果相吻合。由于本文方法推导简单,计算省时,所以是研究此类问题的有效途径。     

振荡器非线性器件的特性对振荡解的影响的Volterra级数研究

本文应用Volterra级数分析非线性振荡器中非线性器件的特性对振荡稳态解的影响。