Measuring Farm and Market Level Economic Impacts of Improved Maize Production Technologies in Ethiopia: Evidence from Panel Data

While it is often recognised that agricultural technology adoption decisions are intertwined and best characterised by multivariate models, typical approaches to examining adoption and impacts of agricultural technology have focused on single technology adoption choice and ignored interdependence among technologies. We examine farm‐ and market‐level impacts of multiple technology adoption choices using comprehensive household survey data collected in 2010/11 and 2012/13 in Ethiopia. Economic surplus analysis combined with panel data switching endogenous regression models are used to compute the supply shift parameter (K‐shift parameter), while at the same time controlling for the endogeneity inherent in agricultural technology adoption among farmers. We find that our improved technology set choices have significant impacts on farm‐level maize yield and maize production costs, where the greatest effect appears to be generated when various technologies are combined. The change in maize yield and production costs results in an average 26.4% cost reduction per kilogram of maize output (the K‐shift parameter). This increases the producer and consumer surpluses by US$ 140 and US$ 105 million per annum, respectively. These changes in economic surplus help to reduce the number of poor people by an estimated 788 thousand per year. We conclude that deliberate extension efforts and other policies that encourage integration of technologies are important for maize technologies to yield their full potential at both farm and market levels.     

江西省林业雨雪冰冻灾害调研报告

江西林业在这次雨雪冰冻灾害中受损严重。全省林地受灾面积356.7万hm2,占总有林地面积40%,其中毛竹林73.9万hm2,占全省毛竹林面积90%,受损毛竹6亿根。林业直接经济损失154亿元。林业灾害使林农生产生活出现困难,森林资源恢复需要一些时间,生态平衡受到重创,加剧了原本就紧张的木材供需矛盾。林业恢复重建面临受损木材清理和补植补造任务重,劳力、经费缺口大,林农近期生活来源无保证,贷款造林者无力偿还到期债务,灾后问题缺乏技术指导及相应保障措施等问题。需从高层面、深层次深刻认识解决急需解决的问题。     

推动科技创新产业升级的税收优惠政策

高科技已成为未来产业的支柱。要根据税收优惠政策推动科技创新产业升级原理,以及当前税收优惠政策在推动科技创新产业中存在的问题,借鉴外国经验,完善我国的税收优惠政策体系。     

食品质量管理学课程的案例教学研究

食品质量管理学是食品质量与安全专业的核心课程,其教学需要与食品产业紧密结合。本文以常州市农村集体聚餐食品安全管理为例,研究了食品质量管理学知识在农村集体聚餐食品安全风险防控中的应用,并付诸教学实践。常州大学食品质量与安全专业在教育改革方面进行着多种形式的探索和实践,取得了较好的成果。     

有序推进规范化融资性票据市场建设的实施路径

近年来,由于金融市场规范化建设步伐滞后于实体经济需求,处于经济运行循环系统末端的中小企业活力难以发挥.为满足日益旺盛的资金需求,中小企业不得不通过其他方式进行融资.隐性融资性票据市场客观上反映了企业现实的融资困境,同时也亟需规范.本文从规范发展融资性票据市场对于企业、商业银行和宏观调控的现实意义出发,系统提出了未来融资性票据市场的整体框架,为服务实体经济的规范化融资性票据市场建设提供了一个有序推进的实施路径.     

经济特区和产业集群如何引领中国经济高速发展

过去30年,中国经济的飞速发展创造了人类历史上史无前例的"增长奇迹",中国改革开放后成立的经济特区以及产业集群的发展是带动中国经济增长的重要引擎.本文基于一些案例研究、专访、实地调研和大量的文献综述,简要概括中国经济特区和产业集群的发展历史、阶段特征、成功经验和持续发展所面临的挑战,并给出了相应的政策建议.     

The antecedents of tourists’ gaming spend: does the brand prestige matter?

This study endeavors to empirically analyse the influential effect among brand prestige, service quality, casino visitor satisfaction and spend. Data from 304 tourists who had travelled to Macau and had participated in gambling activities were used and structural equation modelling and multi-group analysis were employed in hypotheses testing. The findings demonstrated that both brand prestige and perceived service quality are determinants of satisfaction and gaming spend, and that brand prestige also affects service quality positively. Furthermore, past experience moderates the service quality and visitors’ satisfaction relationship, also service quality and visitors’ gaming spend relationship.     

企业社会责任表现、报告质量与企业声誉——基于中国上市公司的实证研究

近年来,越来越多的企业通过发布企业社会责任（CSR）报告与利益相关者沟通CSR表现的情况。在CSR与企业声誉之间的关系备受关注的背景下,CSR报告质量在其中发挥着什么样的作用呢？梳理现有文献,将CSR表现划分成责任管理、市场责任、社会责任以及环境责任,通过实证检验,分别探讨各自与企业声誉之间的作用机理,并研究CSR报告质量在二者之间关系中的调节效应。研究结果显示CSR表现正向作用于企业声誉,相较于责任管理,责任实践的正向作用更强。同时CSR报告质量在二者之间的关系中具有调节效应,能够进一步提升企业声誉,并且对环境责任的调节效应最为明显。     

企业并购整合的超边际分析

企业并购作为一种资源的再配置过程,通常是指市场机制作用下企业为了获得其他企业的控制权而进行的产权交易活动。然而,现实中的企业并购大约一半最后都没有成功,统计资料显示,并购失败的主要原因在于企业并购后没能进行有效的整合。我国企业目前并购的形式主要是横向并购,那么同这种横向并购方式相对应,就更应该重视整合中并购企业之间的专业化协作问题。     

我国中小企业物流问题探析

我国中小企业由于各方面的原因,在生存和发展的问题上深受困扰.因此有着改善自己的生存和发展状况,提升自身素质的强烈需求.对他们在改善自身物流状况,提升竞争力的过程中所出现的问题提出了一些对策.