人民银行分支机构绩效评估的困境及对策

当前人民银行分支机构绩效评估中的技术缺陷及形式主义行为来自于传统的人治理念与集权体制。立足现实、循序渐进是走出困境的理性选择。要坚持科学发展观,着力规范人行分支机构绩效评估中的内部关系,并推动公民有序参与。     

Match Specific Gains to Marriage: A Random Effects Ordered Response Model

A random effects ordered response model is used to analyze individuallife satisfaction. It is found that a substantial part of the unexplained variance in theindividual's life satisfaction can be ascribed to the household or marriage. It is further found thatthe age variable should be considered as a random effect on life satisfaction, i.e., an effectthat varies between households.     

以科学发展观统领渔业发展全局抓好涉及全局的关键性工作--农业部副部长牛盾在全国农业工作会议渔业专业会上的讲话(摘录)

牛盾副部长的讲话共分三个部分,首先强调了搞好渔业产业结构调整的重要性;二是提出进一步抓好渔业资源与生态环境保护工作;三是提出抓好水产量质量与安全工作的重点.     

上海企业寿命和相关因素分析

本文利用历年上海市工商局登记的企业注册信息,从生存时间和生存曲线、行业、区县、规模和所有制因素等多个方面对歇业企业的基本特征进行刻画,挖掘出歇业企业的共性和特点。同时,将本市的情况和全国进行比较,寻找本市企业的地区竞争优势。最后,根据分析和比较的结果,结合本地区的发展特色,给出企业发展的若干意见和建议。     

国外公用企业民营化进程中治理结构变革及经验借鉴

公用企业效率低下的问题,是一个世界范围内普遍存在的问题对我国公用企业治理结构的考察表明,尽管相当多的公用企业从形式上已经建立起了现代企业制度,但其各个职能机构却并没有发挥出应有的职能.本文以欧洲的 OECD 国家电信企业为主要研究对象,分析西方发达国家公用企业在民营化进程中治理结构方面所做出的变革措施,以期对完善我国公用企业的治理结构提供经验借鉴.     

I'll have what she's having: (Social) Perceptions of default options and implications for marketing and decision making

The power that default options have in shaping choice has been well established, yet relatively little is known about how decision makers experience and interpret such preselected options. Research suggests that individuals assume defaults represent a recommended course of action, yet the basis for this recommendation is unclear. Across two experimental studies, we explored consumer theories of default recommendations, examining spontaneous and experimentally manipulated perceptions of the basis of the default, and the impact on decision making across different contexts. Evidence across diverse populations and tasks shows that options were retained to a greater extent when represented as the default, consistent with classic default effects. Furthermore, a significant default effect emerged when the decision context was framed as complex. In line with research on social influence, defaults were most effective when they were presumed to reflect the most popular option (regardless of context). Interestingly, participants rated defaults as being more likely to represent the most popular option, regardless of decision context or default explanation provided to them. These findings highlight the importance of understanding the contexts in which default choices are relied upon and how those defaults are perceived by decision makers.     

Some New Evidence on the Determinants of Large- and Small-Firm Innovation

Empirical analyses presented by Acs and Audretsch suggest differences in the market structure determinants of innovation between large and small firms in U.S. manufacturing. The evidence they offer is ambiguous. By using data for a different country (The Netherlands), a different measure of innovation and a different aggregation level, we offer new evidence, allowing a revaluation of the findings for the U.S. material. Moreover, the influence of the market structure determinants does not appear to differ between a period of sluggish growth (1983) and one of relatively high growth (1989).     

Patenting activity and elements of market structure in the Dutch manufacturing industry

Summary On the basis of econometric analysis this survey shows how patent intensity (number of patents in relation to sales) is positively influenced by technological opportunity and expected profit, and negatively by industry size and concentration. In addition, it is investigated whether patents can be used as a proxy for both inventive and innovative activity. To this question no definite answer could be given. A contradictory relationship was found between the R&D/sales ratio and the patents/sales ratio, which in this case merely shows how research based on firm data and industry data can come up with very different results. A general implication is that for studies on the Dutch manufacturing industry the aggregation from firm level to industry level should be treated with caution.The author works for Corporate Development & Economics Department of Unilever N.V. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily coincide with those of my employer.This article is based on the dissertation that I wrote for the MA in Economics programme at the University of East Anglia (UK). I would like to thank Dr S. Davies, Dr B. Lyons, and G. Hockley Morley for their useful comments, Vanda Morgan for her help with the language and Eline Rossen for her help in finalising this paper. Any errors are mine.     

The Information Contents of Aggregated Money Demand in the EMU

Estimates of aggregated and disaggregated demand-for-money functions in 7 EMU member states show that the aggregated function slightly outperforms the disaggregated functions in explaining the European demand for M3. The aggregated function appears to contain some additional information on money demand in The Netherlands and, to a lesser extent, in France. For the other countries investigated in this study information on aggregated European money demand does not add much to the explanation of demand for money in the individual countries.     

Product waste in the automotive industry: Technology and environmental management

In this article the changes in technology and industry structure forced by waste management in the automotive industry are explored. The analysis is based on (1) a characterisation of corporate response to environmental issues, and (2) the management of technology applied to the car manufacturing industry. It is argued that a more elaborate view of company reactions to governmental regulation of environmental issues has developed in recent years. Companies respond with pro-active strategies. Because of this active attitude environmental concerns influence other aspects of company policy, such as the management of technology. New strategies emerge which are not only a response to environmental problems, but might also influence the industrial structure for the future. The analysis is not only relevant for the automotive industry, but for other manufacturing industries as well. Government action puts waste management issues on the agenda of an increasing number of manufacturing firms that have to develop solutions for these in close cooperation with their suppliers and customers.