Country-of-origin effects on product quality judgments: An information integration perspective

Functional measurement methodology is used to examine the simultaneous effects of country-of-manufacture and price information on judgments about product quality and overall product evaluation The results suggest that a simple (constant weight) averaging model adequately accounts for the cognitive algebra used by consumers to integrate country image and price cues Also, the derived scale values for country image and price suggest that these variables produce roughly equivalent (and strong) effects on product Judgments Implications of these results for future research on country-of-origin effects are discussed.     

全球债市泡沫破灭，收益率仍有上升空间

政府债券市场大跌提出多方面问题 近期政府债券市场的大幅下跌是欧美央行面临的关键问题其原因何在？这是否意味着量化宽松政策根本无效？收益率的攀升是否会令市场预期的下半年的经济复苏化为泡影？面对这种局面,央行应加大还是缩小买进债券的力度？针对这些问题,本文分析了国债收益率高涨的原因,及其对经济和央行政策的可能影响。     

低利率承诺，意义重大的新型非常规货币政策工具

【摩根士丹利5月1日】面对金融风暴,各大央行不仅大力运用常规的货币政策工具——下调短期政策利率,而且动用了各种非常规货币政策工具。目前,最引人注目的是各类量化宽松和信贷放松举措,     

Is Peasantry Dead? Neoliberal Reforms,the State and Agrarian Change in Bangladesh

This paper focuses on three decades of agrarian reform policies and the resulting peculiarity of the development trajectory in Bangladesh. I interrogate the ways in which the reforms have led to a paradoxical situation consisting of partial protelarianization in attempting to promote a market‐based economy. I contend that the particular positioning of the state is central to understanding this dialectic between proletarianization and the persistence of small peasants amid a huge rush towards the formation of a capitalist market economy. I conclude that the partial nature of agrarian transformation that we now experience in Bangladesh may not be resolved in favour of a complete proletarianization of small peasants in the foreseeable future.     

第二代量化宽松政策将推动经济回升

【摩根士丹利3月5日】量化宽松是指央行放任、甚至有意推动基础货币迅速扩张的举措。2O01—20O6年间,日本首次实施了量化宽松政策,成功地令经济恢复增长、并抑制了通缩压力。2008年9月,美联储、欧洲央行、日本银行和英格兰银行开始实施第二次量化宽松政策（简称为QE2）,