从发展产业集群到培育产业基地——以中山市产业集群发展为例

如何实现产业产集群的持续发展,是当前各地产业集群发展面临的重要问题。本文以中山市积极发展产业基地、提升产业集群竞争力为例,分析其发展过程及经验,提出产业集群升级的思路。     

解析节约型社会与扩大内需、经济发展之悖论

本文解析节约型社会与我国的扩大内需的政策和经济发展之间是否存在着相互冲突的关系。文章从3个层面逐步论证,节约型社会提倡高效的资源利用、促进公平的社会消费与福利以及呼吁了可持续的代际资源分配。这不仅不违反我国的扩大内需政策,同时也是从消费的角度来保证我国经济的可持续发展。     

基层机构会计主管委派制实施中的问题和对策

实施中存在问题：一是对会计主管委派制认识上存在偏差，存有抵触情绪，不能更好地发挥财务监督作用：二是缺王对委派会计主管的再监督机制；三是委派会计人员监督权利受到限制，导致委派会计主管不能完全地、独立地履行管理职责；四是委派会计主管的职能定位与当初设置的初衷存在较大差别，在实际工作中加重了管理负担，影响了会计管理效果：五是难以建立会计人员的有效激励机制；六是委派会计主管角色转换频繁，不能很好地履行自身职责：七是被委派会计人员的素质有待提高。     

China＇s Energy Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

I. Introduction As the biggest developing country, China’s energy consumption has increased substantially. China is now the second largest energy consumer in the world and its primary energy consumption accounts for 13.6 percent of the world total. In the global energy market, China seems to have an endless appetite for oil and gas. China depends on imports for more than 40 percent of its oil. According to an estimation by British Petroleum (BP, 2005), from 2000–2004, China’s oil consum…     

遏制房地产问题阶级化倾向

一年来,关于房地产问题的讨论逐渐升级,不仅参与的人越来越多,而且参与者的身分也越来越复杂：一些市民之间在街头、在报刊、在网上对骂,市民与开发商之间在“打架”,学者们之间在争吵,地方政府与中央政府之间、各部委之间在增加摩擦,开发商与学者之间也在拼命对抗……     

Fixed-Term Contracts and Labor Market Duality in France

The French labor market is segmented between permanent and temporary workers. The second category has difficulty in getting an open-ended contract. This paper aims at depicting workers on short-term contracts and shows the consequences on their professional career are negative and significant. A large part of the wage gap between permanent and temporary workers remains unexplained by observable characteristics. They receive less on-the-job training and their likelihood of obtaining a stable job is lower than 30% after 1 year and a half. They have also a higher probability of being the adjustment variable in case of an economic negative shock. These different findings show the importance of using public policies to encourage transitions from fixed-term to permanent employment and reducing labor-market duality.     

The Surge in Short-Duration Contracts in Spain

Until the outbreak of the recent economic and financial crisis, Spain was leading the ranking of countries with the largest share of temporary employees. During the crisis this share has fallen to its lowest level in decades, but this does not mean that working conditions in Spain have improved. The flow of new temporary contracts is larger than ever before. A particularly striking feature is the steep growth in the volume of fixed-duration contracts lasting less than a week or a month. We document these trends and analyse how this phenomenon has affected the transition from temporary to permanent employment.     

The Diffusion of Local Differentiated Waste Disposal Taxes in the Netherlands

The diffusion of a novel taxing scheme (among Dutch municipalities over the period 1998–2005) is studied in which the waste disposal tax is increasing in the amount of waste a household produces. Inspection of the rise and spread of this tax shows that it is contagious: the probability of introduction is increasing in the number of neighboring municipalities that have already introduced this taxing scheme. A possible rationale is that the tax encourages the dumping of waste in neighboring municipalities. These municipalities may then introduce a similar tax to prevent dumping (spillover effect). Using panel data and a recently developed spatial probit approach (Elhorst et al. in J Appl Econom 32:422–439, 2017), it is possible to distinguish this spillover effect from time-specific effects. The results indicate the presence of strong spillovers.     

Oil Price Shocks and the Credit Default Swap Market

We investigate the impact of supply and demand shocks in the global crude oil market on the CDX spread, in the context of a structural VAR model based on monthly data, over the period from November 2003 to October 2015. We find that the reaction of the CDX spread to changes in the real price of crude oil differs considerably depending on the sources of shocks. In the long run, crude oil supply shocks, aggregate demand shocks, and oil-specific demand shocks together account for nearly 90% of the variation of the CDX spread.