METROPOLITAN HOUSE PRICES IN SOUTH AFRICA: DO THEY CONVERGE?

The question this paper investigates is whether or not different metropolitan areas each constitute a separate housing market or whether or not there is a single South African housing market. Theory on the Law of One Price suggests that if products or geographic areas belong in the same market, their absolute prices must converge, so that their relative prices are stationary. By using cross-sectional time series data of five metropolitan areas, the paper tests for the Law of One Price by applying the Im, Pesaran and Shin panel unit root test. The paper finds strong evidence of convergence in large middle-segment house prices and weaker support for convergence in medium middle-segment house prices. In addition, the paper finds no evidence for convergence in small middle-segment house prices. This suggests the existence of a national market for large and possibly middle-segment houses in metropolitan areas, but separate metropolitan markets for small middle-segment houses. In addition, the paper estimates the speed of convergence and finds that large middle-segment house prices converge within two to seven quarters, while the speed of convergence for medium middle-segment house prices in three of the five areas is five to eight quarters.     

英国福利制度模式转变探析及对我国的启示

在福利制度发展过程中,有关福利的许多政策问题都与福利制度的模式有关.福利制度模式可以反映出福利资源的配置和公民福利消费权益状况,表明国家、市场、企业与家庭在福利提供方面的职责划分,而这些问题最终直接影响到社会保障与社会福利政策的制定与实施.     

一种人力资源会计价值计量模式:MR=MC原则的应用

随着知识经济时代的到来,人力资源会计变得日益重要,其中人力资源价值确认与计量居于其核心地位,但是,由于人力资源本身的复杂性、不确定性,至今没有形成一种统一的人力资源会计价值计量模式.本文试图从西方经济学要素需求理论角度来构建一种人力资源会计价值计量模式,以求在理论上就其可计量性做一下初步探讨.     

我国入境旅游发展现状、趋势预测及策略分析

通过对1997—2006年我国旅游服务贸易出口国际市场占有率指数、旅游服务贸易竞争优势指数和显示性比较优势指数的比较，可以看出我国旅游服务贸易国际竞争力尚不强。结合1978—2007我国历年入境旅游人次和外汇收入数据，通过建立时间序列模型，可以对未来五年我国入境旅游发展趋势进行预测。建议根据我国入境旅游消费结构特征，采用从宏观上实行差异化引导等策略。     

制度创新与中国农业发展——兼论农业产业化的意义

在工业化的前提下,通过农业的技术进步促进农业发展是新古典经济学传统农业改造的核心思想,但其局限性是显而易见的。以新制度经济学的理论来看,中国农业问题的症结是以农户为基本经营单位的农业生产组织形式不能适应市场经济的要求,农业产业化是中国农业现代化的必由之路。     

高职课程"城市规划原理"多维教学方法探索

文章针对高职课程"城市规划原理",从教学内容宽度以及教学对象角度进行切入,提出了以城市认知、绘图练习、理论教学的三位一体以及教师与学生主动性互换为主要内容的多维教学方法,为高职课程教学方法改革提供了新的思路.     

一种新型高速数字锁相环的研究

本文针对传统方法实现的数字锁相环(DPLL)工作速率低的问题,通过对一种典型的DPLL的分析,找出影响其工作速率的主要因素,研究并提出了一种全新的高速实现方法,并在实验室进行了数据传输位同步提取实验。     

Wage and Price Inflation in Poland in the Period of Transition: The Cointegration Analysis

The paper focuses on the long run relationships between wages, prices and labour productivity in the Polish economy by applying recent developments in the field of multivariate cointegration analysis. We followed modeling strategy which is suggested by Greenslade et al. (1999) and present all stages of the analysis which leads to the fully economically identified system of equations representing long run relationships. The investigation is based on the quarterly data from 1992.1 to 1999.2 which covers the period of transition of the Polish economy from the centrally planned system towards the market one. Basing on the empirical results we can argue that wages (costs) were one of the main forces driving inflation in Poland during that period. Also labor productivity proved to be stimulated by the increase of the real wages. On the other hand the hypothesis concerning the relationship between wages and unemployment was rejected by the data.