Market Is A Dinner An exclusive interview with Zhang Bin, President of China National Foreign Trade Transportation (Group) Corporation(Sinotrans)

2005 is the last year of China's No. 10 Five-year Plan. With China 's booming economic development, domestic enterprises are facing up with not only quite a lot of opportunities, but also some potential challenges, for instance, with the upgoing oil prices, the energy and the raw materials are no longer in efficient supply, this is a problem that domestic enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises have to face. How to deal with the situation, Zhang Bin, President of China National Foreign Trade Transportation (Group) Corporation (Sinotrans) gives his comments when interviewed by China's Foreign Trade.     

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.     

论跨国公司的转移价格

跨国公司在我国使用转移价格主要基于非税务动因,其转移价格策略对我国企业、产业以及财政收入等方面都产生了不良影响。针对这些问题,我国需要在积极引进外资的同时,不断完善相关法律规定,加强国际税收合作,强化对引资活动的监管,提高外资质量。     

Nonlinear Drift And Stochastic Volatility: An Empirical Investigation Of Short-Term Interest Rate Models

In this article I provide new evidence on the role of nonlinear drift and stochastic volatility in interest rate modeling. I compare various model specifications for the short‐term interest rate using the data from five countries. I find that modeling the stochastic volatility in the short rate is far more important than specifying the shape of the drift function. The empirical support for nonlinear drift is weak with or without the stochastic volatility factor. Although a linear drift stochastic volatility model fits the international data well, I find that the level effect differs across countries.     

Can Chinese Discuss Conflicts Openly? Field and Experimental Studies of Face Dynamics in China

Chinese people have been theorized to be particularly sensitive to social face and avoid direct discussion in conflict to promote interpersonal harmony. Social face has been used to explain the proclivity of East Asians to smooth over conflict. More research is needed to study social face empirically and its relationship with direct discussion and the processes by which social face has its impact. Results from a field interview study and an experiment conducted in China support theorizing that confirmation of face induces cooperative goals and open-mindedness. In contrast with common assumptions about Chinese organizations, direct discussion, compared to avoiding, strengthened relationships. Direct controversy, especially when face was confirmed, induced open-mindedness: Participants asked more questions, explored the opposing views, demonstrated more knowledge of the opposing arguments, and worked to integrate views. These results were interpreted as suggesting that Chinese people can discuss their conflicts directly and cooperatively when they are assured that their face is confirmed. Results have implications both for the general theory of cooperation and competition as well as our understanding of social face in China.     

后现代主义视野中的《白雪公主》

美国后现代主义作家唐纳德·巴塞尔姆在他的代表作<白雪公主>中成功地运用后现代主义创作手法即碎片式的拼贴、游戏式的戏仿和喜剧性的反讽彻底颠覆了经典的童话故事<白雪公主>,淋漓尽致地嘲讽了后现代社会平庸无聊的生活和精神的空虚与困惑,从而深刻揭示了后现代社会生活的反童话本质.     

东部沿海八省市利用外资比较分析

随着引进外资量的不断增加，资金短缺局面的改善，我国应转变利用外资战略，更为重视利用外资的质量和绩效。经济发达的东部沿海地区利用了我国绝大部分的外资。本文以我国东部沿海地区三大经济区域（环渤海经济区、长江三角洲、珠江三角洲）的八个省市作为样本，对其利用外资的规模、业绩、质量、效益及潜力进行比较，客观地评价和审视其对外资的使用。     

林产品市场模型文献综述

关于林产品市场的数量研究开始于上个世纪50年代。早期的研究主要以时间序列数据为主。近几十年来,由于经济理论在林产品市场模型中的应用,模型估计方法的改进,以及详细数据的获得,林产品市场模型越来越完善。文章对近几十年来出现的主要建模方法,及其应用作一回顾,并对这些方法的优缺点作简单的比较。     

警惕海外并购陷阱

随着中国企业的崛起，跨国并购正在成为中国商业界的热点。最近，中国海洋石油有限公司出价185亿美元收购美国加州能源公司优尼科公司．震动了美国政商两界。而海尔考虑收购美国百年家电企业美泰，联想大手笔收购IBM的PC部门．都使得中国企业的并购扩张策略成为世界性的话题。并购作为企业成长的手段之一．已经成为中国企业扩张的利器。