ARMANI的亚洲策略

2002年11月,ARMANI集团于香港中环置地的遮打大厦打造占地三千平方米的旗舰店;2004年4月,ARMANI集团与HOUSE OF THRFF合作在上海外滩3号开设占地一千一百平方米的旗舰店……至今,ARMANI在东亚的动作仍在进行中:2008年前在中国大陆开设20至30家店铺的计划已经在成为现实;Armani于2004年5月与泰国达成协议协助曼谷实现成为亚洲时尚产品之都.     

如何利用质量管理体系进行业绩改进

在当今的市场环境中，大部分组织面临着棘手的条件，包括来自对手的扩张性竞争战略、令人胆怯的法律法规和全球化的压力。但最后，组织的经营一般都会归结到简单的问题，比如，以更低的价格提供比竞争对手更好的产品和服务。     

Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? International evidence

We examine whether the sorting of high- and low-achieving students into classes of different sizes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for 18 national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results reveal strongly compensatory patterns of sorting within and especially between schools in many countries. Only the United States, which has a decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory where administrators rather than teachers assign students to classrooms.     

Measuring the Cost‐Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK

This paper investigates the economic impact of the government's proposed new UK R&D tax credit. We measure the benefit of the credit by the effect on value added in the short and long runs. This is simulated from existing econometric estimates of the tax‐price elasticity of research and development (R&D) and the effect of R&D on productivity. For the latter, we allow R&D to have an effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier forward). We then compare the increase in value added to the likely exchequer costs of the programme under a number of scenarios. In the long run, the increase in GDP far outweighs the costs of the tax credit. The short‐run effect is far smaller, with value added only exceeding cost if R&D grows at or below the rate of inflation.     

British trade union membership,density and decline in the 1980s: a research note

This article is concerned with British trade union membership statistics. It provides three different estimates of trade union density and considers their meaning and significance. It also assesses the reliability of union membership figures, and finally it provides fresh data on the unemployed membership of trade unions.     

Convenience yield and the theory of storage: applying an option‐based approach

We propose that an options‐based approach is a superior alternative to the traditional cost‐of‐carry method to model both the behaviour of convenience yields and the commodity price responses to changes in inventory levels. This approach is shown to be more robust and avoids the simplifying assumptions embedded in cost‐of‐carry valuation which fully accounts for the non‐negativity constraint on inventory. Unlike the cost‐of‐carry approach, the options‐based approach does not treat the convenience yield as an exogenous factor. This offers a more natural measure of implied convenience yields in commodity trading strategies. We test the relationship between convenience yields and inventory levels for a number of liquidly traded base metals using both methods. Our results show that the relationship between convenience yields and inventory levels is strongly defined under the options‐based approach in line with market beliefs. This result is consistent with other studies that have used the options‐based approach in other nonmetals commodity markets.