美国自由贸易协定战略及中国的应对措施

布什政府上台后,美国开始大踏步地实施自由贸易协定战略,构建了以美国为中心的双边及区域的多元化的自由贸易协定网络体系。文章从美国自由贸易战略格局入手,对其战略意义进行了总结,同时,针对该战略对中国的影响,提出了相应的对策和建议,认为中国应借鉴美国自由贸易协定战略的经验,大力开展自由贸易协定谈判。     

房地产投资信托基金(REIT)相关问题分析

REIT是一种很好的房地产融资方式,具有较高的投资收益、运作透明度高,交易简便、分散风险等特点.按照不同的标准,REIT分为很多类型,根据资金投向的不同,REIT可分为权益型、抵押型和混合型.作为一种新的融资产品,REIT具有资产证券化属性、合作性与信托性等属性.为有效利用REIT的融资优势,促进我国房地产事业的发展,本文提出完善法律体系、严格信息披露等措施.     

从"the Underground Railroad"看美语词汇丰富的文化内涵

词汇是语言的基础,是语言大系统赖以存在的支柱,社会的变迁,民族文化的发展,经过历史的积淀而结晶在词汇层面上,从而赋予词汇丰富的文化内涵。本文从“theUnderground Railroad”一词联想到美语词汇丰富的文化内涵,并从美国的黑人史、殖民地史以及美国的反文化运动三方面来说明美语词汇的文化内涵。     

城市商圈布局的三维动态模型构建与述评

商贸产业是维系一个城市经济运转的原动力之一,城市商圈是这个经济发展动力的重要载体.本文在吸收西方经典商圈理论模型的基础上,结合我国城市商圈发展现状,从外部环境、内部成长和时间三个维度分析其影响因素,构建了城市商圈布局的三维动态模型,以期对城市商圈布局和城市经营提供一定的现实参考价值.     

旅游感知形象与旅游地形象塑造

在区域旅游发展中,目的地旅游形象塑造至关重要,是目的地对旅游者最为重要的拉力之一。从心理学、地理学、社会学、人类学的角度探讨了人类的旅游感知形象与目的地旅游形象塑造紧密相关。旅游感知形象受观看方式、文化环境、媒介、人口统计学特征等因素的影响,是社会文化熏陶的结果。只有认真研究不同的旅游地形象感知图式的属性,才能塑造出满足旅游者心理期待和想象的旅游地形象。     

我国制造业西移的成因和对策建议

实施西部大开发战略以来,西部地区的制造业出现了崛起的新迹象。但如果对西部大开发战略实施过程中的一些步骤、政策的设计或处理失当,尤其是对刚刚出现的制造业西移的现象关注不够,就会在实施中产生一些消极的影响,还会阻碍西部大开发战略的顺利实施。因此,加强对我国制造业西移现象的研究将成为一个迫切的任务。     

Trends and cycles of the internet evolution and worldwide impacts

In this paper we present a quantitative analysis of the evolution of some Internet and ICT evolution indicators. It focuses on the number of Internet hosts, the Internet penetration index, the ICT development index and the software/protocols development. In addition, we analyzed the series of most impacting events building up the Internet along the last fifty years. These analyses were carried out using the multi-logistic procedure recently proposed by the authors. Our results for hosts counting, penetration index and software/protocols development are compatible with the onset of some radical changes in the Internet technology to be currently underway and we forecast new growth rate peaks to occur by 2015. The software/protocols were found to having been powered by bursts of creativity with periods of the order of the Kuznets and Kondratiev economic cycles. Similar conclusions were drawn from the series of main events building up the Internet. Despite the clear signs of worldwide improvement in the ICT infrastructure and usage between 2002 and 2007 obtained from the ICT development index, its cross-correlation with the human development index (HDI) revealed the presence of a group of countries whose improvements in the operational ICT index are disconnected from their corresponding HDI improvements.     

Computing DSGE models with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility

This paper compares different solution methods for computing the equilibrium of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with recursive preferences such as those in Epstein and Zin, 1989, Epstein and Zin, 1991 and stochastic volatility. Models with these two features have recently become popular, but we know little about the best ways to implement them numerically. To fill this gap, we solve the stochastic neoclassical growth model with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility using four different approaches: second- and third-order perturbation, Chebyshev polynomials, and value function iteration. We document the performance of the methods in terms of computing time, implementation complexity, and accuracy. Our main finding is that perturbations are competitive in terms of accuracy with Chebyshev polynomials and value function iteration while being several orders of magnitude faster to run. Therefore, we conclude that perturbation methods are an attractive approach for computing this class of problems.     

China Bashing: Does Trade Drive the “Bad” News about China in the USA?

A monthly index of “bad” news about China as reported in the USA from January 1990 to December 2008 is developed in this paper. “Bad” is defined as news touching on the following issues: human rights, Tibet, child labor, democracy, and repression. Using this bad news index, this paper documents a peculiar finding: 3–4 months after a trade deficit shock to the US–China bilateral trade balance, the frequency of bad news published about China by US media outlets rises sharply, then dies off slowly. Statistical analysis reveals that the likelihood that this finding is just a coincidence is relatively small—about 1%. In addition, this paper finds a robust association between the annual number of Congressional hearings on China and the US–China bilateral trade deficit. These results suggest that “China bashing” may be endogenous to fluctuations in the US–China bilateral trade balance.     

IT投资对我国机械制造业上市公司技术效率的影响分析

将IT投资作为投入要素和企业特征变量,基于SFA模型和DEA-Tobit模型分别构造了6个模型,以2004—2008年我国机械、设备、仪表制造业上市公司为样本,就IT投资对我国机械制造业上市公司技术效率的影响进行了实证分析。结果表明:SFA和DEA在测算技术效率方面具有较好的一致性,"生产率悖论"仍然存在;两种视角下测得的技术效率具有显著差异,且在SFA中,作为企业特征变量的IT投资的影响大于其作为生产要素的影响,这在DEA中情况正好相反;企业规模与技术效率正相关,企业资产负债率和企业年限与技术效率负相关,股权集中度与技术效率的关系不显著。