Labour productivity and rice production in Bangladesh: a stochastic frontier approach

During the NCAA basketball tournaments from 2002 to 2005, men's games produced 27% more upsets than women's games. To test whether these unpredictable results were due to gender differences, we conduct logit analysis to explain upsets by gender and other potentially significant variables, including differences in competing teams’: (i) RPI scores, (ii) percentage of freshmen, (iii) percentage of seniors, (iv) top scorer's total points and, (v) top three scorers’ total points. These analyses suggest that gender plays a significant role in explaining predictability.     

Community college economics instruction: Results from a National Science Foundation Project

The principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project, “Economics at Community Colleges,” surveyed community college economics faculty and organized workshops, webinars, and regional meetings to address community college faculty isolation from new ideas in economics and economics instruction. Survey results, combined with National Study of Postsecondary Faculty data, help fill a lacuna in information about community college faculty. A key finding is the reliance in community college economic instruction on part-time faculty, including many who do not hold a graduate degree in economics. The project's webinars reached the most community college faculty, while the workshops were most effective in improving economics instruction. Areas for future research are identified.     

基于环境视角的先进生产性服务业创业策略

先进生产性服务业组织的产生和发展与环境有着密切的联系。在回顾先进生产性服务业组织特点的基础上,结合创业管理关于新组织生成的研究成果,提炼出影响先进生产性服务组织生成的环境系统和作用框架,并基于此框架进一步提出针对该类组织的创业策略。具体而言,新创生产性服务业组织要关注经济环境和工业化进程所带来的机会、特殊产业环境对于新创组织位置选择及知识溢出的影响,以及企业微观生存环境中的关联企业间的互动和合作创新带来的绩效提升。     

中韩新能源产业合作的经济效应实证研究

本文主要探讨中韩新能源领域的合作,尤其是对两国新能源领域中合作的经济效应进行评估。为了评价合作的经济效应,本文建立新能源合作的相对收益指数,并利用向量自回归模型(VAR)探寻能源合作指数(ECI)和贸易、GDP之间的关系,从而论证中韩新能源产业合作的重要性。     

我国出口贸易摩擦预警机制的现状、问题与对策

我国“入世”以后,为了保证出口的稳定增长,维持正常的出口秩序,迅速建立了出口贸易摩擦预警机制并已发挥了重要的作用。然而,出口贸易摩擦出现的一些新特点,对正在完善中的预警机制提出了新的挑战。本文对我国出口贸易摩擦预警机制的现状和问题进行了分析,并提出了相应的对策。     

The geographic distribution of environmental inspections

Models of the enforcement of environmental regulations regarding point source pollution suppose that the probability of inspection or audit is independent across facilities. However, there are a number of reasons why regulators may choose to inspect many sites in a particular geographic area at one time. If the probability a site is inspected also depends on its compliance behavior, the expected payoff from choosing to violate will depend upon the compliance decisions of neighboring sites, creating a game of strategic interdependence between firms. In this paper, we use a dataset of inspections at petroleum storage sites in Manitoba between 1981 and 1998 to consider to what extent inspections are spatially correlated and whether inspection probabilities are a function of the inspection and violation history of the site and its neighbors. Further, we examine to what extent firms take into account whether their neighbors have been previously found in violation in determining compliance.     

汇率预测的神经网络方法及其比较

浮动汇率兴起以来,大量的参数方法和非参数方法被用于汇率预测,神经网络是其中的一种.神经网络方法在汇率预测中的应用有三种不同的方法:同质神经网络模型、异质神经网络模型和神经网络组合模型.本文讨论了三种神经网络预测模型的特点以及局限性,并通过时这三种方法的比较得出结论:神经网络组合模型充分考虑了汇率的线性特征和非线性特征,比同质神经网络和异质神经网络预测模型更系统、更全面,能更好地进行汇率预测.     

跨国公司跨境环境管理战略模式及其影响因素

跨国公司国际生产的延伸带来了对生产过程中的环境问题,引起了对跨国公司环境管理战略的关注.本文介绍的跨境环境管理的模式,其集中程度是由分散化逐渐向高度一体化提升的一个连续的集合.影响跨国公司各环境管理战略一体化程度因素包括产业因素、公司内部因素、正式规制因素以及市场因素.     

CHILD LABOUR: A REVIEW OF RECENT THEORY AND EVIDENCE WITH POLICY IMPLICATIONS

In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their attention to the question of why children work. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the more recent theoretical and empirical research into the topic of child labour, and to illustrate the fact that no one factor on its own can account for the phenomenon of child labour. Therefore, policies aimed at eradicating child labour will need to address the broad range of underlying factors that contribute to the incidence of child labour, such as poverty, market imperfections and access to education.