“声东击西”中国汽车海外试水

《金融时报》近日撰文指出：十年间，由于中国政府高度重视和全球汽车巨头不断高涨的投资热情，世界见证了中国汽车业的飞速发展。目前，中国汽车正试图通过中东进军西方富国市场，或许西方世界将要接受的下一个“中国制造”产品是汽车!     

BEA's Regional Economic Accounts Program: Recent and Planned Improvements

This article highlights recent improvements and plans for further improvements to each of BEA’s major regional economic accounts programs. The improvements focus on the acceleration of release of the estimates and on the preparation of new and extended estimates. There also is a brief discussion on BEA’s research effort to improve the regional accounts.JEL Classification E010     

沃尔玛与中国小商品城经营状态及核心竞争力比较

沃尔玛和中国小商品城同属于商贸流通企业,在流通领域中都做出了不斐的业绩。对两者的经营状态及核心竞争力进行比较,重点分析两者在核心竞争力方面的异同,并在比较分析的基础上,探索我国专业批发市场建设和提升核心竞争力若干有价值的结论和启示。     

创业初期如何构建企业核心竞争力

首先论述了创业企业初期所面临的诸多问题,并通过对所面临各个问题产生原因的分析,指出了创业企业要想最终成功创业,其关键在于识别出创业初期构建核心竞争力的各个因素,并由此着手进行构建。     

循环经济:西方国家的经验做法及对中国的启示(二)

三、西方国家的主要经验及其做法　发展循环经济,国情不同,各国的切入点也各异.日本、德国主要是适应本国固体废弃物管理战略转变的需要,因此,日本从资源减量化入手,以建设循环型社会为主旨,德国则从环境保护入手,主要通过建立废弃物资源化的双元系统来发展循环经济.西方国家主要经验做法是：     

现代配送中心经营定位的思考

从分析和研究现代物流配送中心的基本功能出发，提出了不同经济功能下配送中心的不同类型，并在此基础上探讨了不同功能的配送中心在市场竞争中的基本经营定位。     

On the smoothness of optimal paths II: some local turnpike results

We study the local turnpike property for two classes of infinite-horizon discrete-time deterministic maximization problems which have common applications, e.g., optimal growth theory. We follow a functional-analytic approach and rely on an implicit function theorem for the space of the sequences which converge to zero. We shall assume the existence of an optimal path which is not necessarily a steady-state. Relying on material developped in Blot and Crettez (Decis Econo Finance 27:1–34, 2004), “On the smoothness of optimal paths” Decis Econ Finance, 21:1–34, 2004), we provide conditions under which a variation in the initial conditions (i.e., capital stock and discount rate) yields an optimal solution which converges toward a reference solution when time becomes infinite. We also provide new results on bounded solutions of difference equations. We gratefully thank the editor, Silvano Holzer, and two anonymous referees for remarks and advices on a previous version of this paper.     

Progressive stress accelerated life tests under finite mixture models

In this paper, progressive stress accelerated life tests are considered when the lifetime of a product under use condition follows a finite mixture of distributions. The experiment is performed when each of the components in the mixture follows a general class of distributions which includes, among others, the Weibull, compound Weibull, power function, Gompertz and compound Gompertz distributions. It is assumed that the scale parameter of each component satisfies the inverse power low, the progressive stress is directly proportional to time and the cumulative exposure model for the effect of changing stress holds. Based on type-I censoring, the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the parameters under consideration are obtained. A special attention is paid to a mixture of two Rayleigh components. Simulation results are carried out to study the precision of the MLEs and to obtain confidence intervals for the parameters involved.     

The Impact of Survey Methodology and Context on Central Tendency,Nonresponse and Associations of Subjective Indicators of Government Performance

A comparison is given of (ordinal) measures of trust in government institutions that were collected with the aim of facilitating comparisons between different modes and contexts of data collection. Statistical analyses reveal that the mode effect could amount upto a 10% change of item nonresponse and a 9% change of the level of trust, whereas the context effect could lead upto a 19% change of the bivariate associations of trust. The observed changes of both measures of central tendency and of associations affect conclusions of social scientific research in isolated studies, which implies that comparative studies are seriously hampered by bias related to mode and context, two sources of obscurity adding to the two other threats which are differences of sample source and differences of question phrasing.     

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