Competition Policy as Strategic Trade with Differentiated Products

The paper analyzes how countries use competition policy as a tool for strategic trade. In the model, two countries export to a third country. Each exporting country is endowed with a set of differentiated products. Each government chooses the number of exporters for its country and the products that each exporter sells in the first period, and a tax policy in the second period. Firms choose prices or quantities independently in the third period. In the unique subgame‐perfect equilibrium, both countries group all their products within a single firm—the “national champion policy.” We study the implication of different assumptions about the timing of the game.     

Expatriation: Traditional criticisms and international careers: Introducing the special issue

In this introduction to our special issue, we will first seek to discuss the extent to which recent expatriation research and literature is still subject to earlier criticisms. Second, we will discuss the future research needs concerning the theme of this special issue, international careers, briefly reviewing the dominating research theme within the international career context (i.e., the career impacts of international assignment) and suggesting some future research areas. After that, we will offer a particularly promising new avenue for future research: the new forms of international work. We will conclude by summarizing the articles for this special issue and illustrate how they fit within this new avenue. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

《尸语故事》在幼儿教育中的文化价值探究

《尸语故事》 是一本深受藏族群众喜爱的故事集,反映了藏族人民的思想道德和精神面貌.故事投射的道德教育思想在幼儿的生活学习中是不可或缺的一部分,对幼儿的思想道德意识产生潜移默化的作用.从《尸语故事》 中筛选出适宜藏族幼儿的故事,并有效融入幼儿道德教育之中,不仅可以提高幼儿的思想道德认知水平,而且有利于良好的道德品质形成.     

The moderating effect of institutional context on the relationship between associational activity and new business activity in emerging economies

Varying institutional environments provide the foundation for a great deal of international business (IB) research yet relatively little empirical work has examined the association between institutional factors and new business development in emerging economies, although the importance of new business development for economic transition and growth is widely acknowledged. Drawing from social network and institutional theories, we address this gap by examining the effect of associational activity on the level of new business activity in emerging economies, and testing the thesis that associational activity becomes more instrumental for new business creation when aspiring entrepreneurs confront higher institutional burdens (i.e., obstacles derived from underdeveloped or absent institutions). On the basis of data from two cross-national research projects—the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and the World Values Survey—we find a positive relationship between a country's associational activity and new business activity; this relationship is stronger for higher regulatory and normative institutional burdens and lower cognitive institutional burdens. This study is among the first to examine empirically the possible substitution effect between social ties and institutions to predict new business activity; it paints a nuanced picture of how social networks might be more instrumental in contexts characterized by weak institutions. We discuss the implications of these findings for IB theory and practice and offer directions for further research in the area.     

When did firms become more different? Time-varying firm-specific volatility in Japan

We document how firm-specific volatility in sales, earnings and employment growth evolved year by year in Japan. Our volatility measure also indicates the evolution of firm turnover. We find that patterns in firm-specific volatility have changed when macroeconomic circumstances have. Firm turnover declined during the economic stagnation of 1991–1997. The deep downturn of fiscal years 1998–2002 coincided with a substantial increase in turnover in market, profit and employment shares. Firm volatility tended to decline during the recovery after 2002. We assess whether the rise in firm turnover and deep downturn in 1998–2002 indicate that after a period of stagnation, weak firms were finally allowed to shrink or fail. Our evidence suggests that the widening in the firm growth distribution at that time did not reflect weak firms shrinking relative to healthy firms, indicating that the two recessions in 1998–2002 were not “cleansing”.     

我国银行业不良资产状况和变化趋势分析

我国银行业在转轨过程中积累了大量的信贷风险,不良贷款主要集中在国有商业银行,且不良贷款率较高,损失类贷款比重较大,主要产生于制造业、批发零售业和房地产业。我国新一轮投资膨胀可能会造成银行不良贷款大幅上升,这些贷款风险可能会在今后几年内显现。     

聚丙烯酰胺对室温磷化液磷化性能的影响

考察了功能性聚合物聚丙烯酰胺对室温磷化液磷化性能的影响。结果发现 ,向磷化液中加入聚丙烯酰胺 ,有利于其磷化性能的提高 ;聚丙烯酰胺功能基团的离子性影响磷化液的磷化性能 ,与非离子和阴离子功能基团相比 ,阳离子功能基团更有利于磷化性能的提高 ;聚丙烯酰胺的离子度和分子量对磷化液磷化性能几乎没有影响 ;随着聚丙烯酰胺浓度的增大 ,磷化液磷化性能提高 ,但其浓度增大到一定值后 ,磷化性能不再有明显的变化。     

Median‐voter Equilibria in the Neoclassical Growth Model under Aggregation*

We study a dynamic version of Meltzer and Richard's median‐voter model where agents differ in wealth. Taxes are proportional to income and are redistributed as equal lump‐sum transfers. Voting occurs every period and each consumer votes for the tax that maximizes his welfare. We characterize time‐consistent Markov‐perfect equilibria twofold. First, restricting utility classes, we show that the economy's aggregate state is mean and median wealth. Second, we derive the median‐voter's first‐order condition interpreting it as a tradeoff between distortions and net wealth transfers. Our method for solving the steady state relies on a polynomial expansion around the steady state.     

高新技术开发区在区域创新中的作用及发展对策

区域创新是提升区域竞争力的根本动力,高新技术开发区则是区域不断创新的极点与载体。高新技术开发区对区域创新网络的构建以及高新技术开发区各主体对区域创新都具有非常重要的作用。在科学发展观指导下采取有力的措施,提高高新技术开发区自身的创新能力、促进高新技术开发区的进一步发展就尤为重要。