Public Sector Capital and the Production Efficiency of U.S. Regional Manufacturing Industries

This paper applies a stochastic frontier production model with time-varying technical efficiency to investigate the relationship between public capital and technical efficiency. It is based on the proposition that public capital has an effect on actual output by enhancing technical efficiency, thereby reducing the gap between maximum potential output and actual output. Empirical results using panel data from U.S. state manufacturing industries during 1969–86 show that technical efficiencies varied substantially, both between states and between years; variations in technical efficiency are significantly explained by variations in public-sector capital.
JEL Classification Numbers: O20, H54, C23.     

人力资源外包:提升中小企业集聚效应的新途径

一、人力资源外包服务的发展 外包是在20世纪90年代西方企业实施“回归主业，强化核心业务”的大背景下风行起来的一种企业新战略手段。其核心思想是企业在内部资源有限的情况下，为取得更大的竞争优势，仅保留其最具竞争优势的业务，而将其他业务委托给比自己更具成本优势和专有知识的企业。     

南通市废旧轮胎回收利用现状的思考

橡胶作为高分子材料,具有高弹性的特征,被广泛用于国民经济的各个领域.随着经济的快速发展,我国于2002年首次超过美国而成为世界橡胶消耗第一大国(见表1).随着橡胶制品的大量使用,废橡胶产生量也同步增长,这给废橡胶的综合利用带来了新的挑战和机遇.废橡胶的主要来源是废旧轮胎,占废旧橡胶来源总量的70%以上;其次是废旧橡胶制品,占20%以上.过去一直被视作"黑色污染"的废旧橡胶,伴随着循环经济的发展,其再利用价值为社会各界所关注.     

China’s Labor Market on Crossroad

I.IntroductionSincethelate1990s,China’slabor market has comeundergreat pressure,asreflected by anincreasing unemployment rate,and adeclining labor force participation rate.The causesofthe severe unemployment are threefold.First,due to the macro-economic downturn andrapid industrial structural change in the late1990s,state-owned enterprises(SOEs),whichlost their comparative advantage and competitiveness,have been unable to fully utilizetheir production capacity,and have become loss-makers.Se…     

奥运会对举办城市的影响研究

本文结合以往奥运会举办城市的实际,分析举办奥运会对举办城市的影响,既包括经济影响,也包括带来的社会影响。奥运会对举办城市的影响是积极的,但同时也带来一些问题,如何扩大积极影响,解决它所带来的一些问题是北京急需考虑的。     

Intelligent Order Matching Systems for Commodity Markets

Automatic order matching systems have emerged as an electronic alternative to traditional markets. In current automatic order matching systems, price and quantity are the only product dimensions used for the order matching. However, a single-commodity market is made up of many heterogeneous goods which are close to each other but different in qualities and delivery conditions. Price and quantity are important but represent only parts of product attributes that commodity traders want to take into account. This study aims to extend current automatic order matching systems by diversifying product dimensions. An intelligent order matching system not only maximizes the total transaction volume based on the price and quantity but also satisfies traders' qualitative preferences over attributes other than price and quantity. The intelligent order matching mechanism combines an economic model with a preference model to incorporate both quantitative and qualitative utility of market participants. Constraint logic programming is investigated as a new information technology to structure and implement the intelligent order matching system.     

An appreciation of our referees

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An appreciation of our referees     

付华廷与富华集团:打造龙江第一村的新农村风采

当你来到黑龙江省甘南县音河镇兴十四村,那么你关于乡村的概念以及城市生活的优越感会可能会全部崩溃.从齐齐哈尔市向西北行约80公里,高耸入云的“中国富华国际生态产业园”映入眼帘,这就是“龙江第一村”兴十四村的“村标”了.平整洁净的水泥路面延伸过去,豁然展开的是一个面积为3.5万平方米的休闲广场,阳光下音乐喷泉喷射着清凉耀眼的水柱;周边绿树红花中,掩映着一百多栋红顶黄墙的民居别墅和一座三星级宾馆.远处,正在建设中的高大厂房弧光闪烁.你不能相信这是一个村庄,更不能想象这个村庄位于偏远的、至今不通铁路的黑龙江省甘南县.