German Companies Confident in China

On September of 2011, German Chamber of Commerce （GCC） conducted parties＇ business confidence in China among 188 member companies. Data showed that orders German companies received have maintained an u...     

Not all trade restrictions are created equally

There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. This introduction has highlighted the importance of the entry/exit decision of firms in response to changes in trade barriers. However, it is typical in many of these models to use iceberg transport costs as a general form of trade barriers that can be interchangeable with ad valorem tariffs. I show that this is not always an appropriate conclusion. Specifically, I illustrate that profit for an exporter is more elastic in response to tariffs than iceberg transport costs, which affects the entry/exit decision of firms. This has implications for welfare analysis and empirical specifications.     

Should multivariate early warning systems for banking crises pool across regions?

Most extant work on prediction of banking crises has utilised global samples, which are in turn dominated by observations from middle-income countries, and rely on a single estimator. However, economic and financial structures as well as the pattern of shocks may differ substantially across regions, while a range of specifications is desirable to check robustness. Accordingly, in this paper we test the implicit pooling assumption in earlier multivariate work on Early Warning Systems using both logit and binary recursive tree specifications separately for crises in Asia and Latin America, as well as the pooled sample. Results suggest markedly different crisis determinants across regions, implying global samples are inappropriate.     

中国对美出口贸易中的隐含碳排放——基于出口排名前十位货物的比较分析

通过利用EIO-LCA软件,我们对中国出口美国前十位货物的隐含碳进行分部门计算。结果认为:中国出口美国前十位货物的隐含碳总量约占总出口的75%以上.其中,隐含碳排放量较高的出口主要是:办公室机器和自动资料处理仪器、杂项制品、电信和录音及音响设备和仪器等三类产品;较低的主要集中于以提供生活消费品和制作手工工具为主的轻纺工业。     

珠海近现代历史名人与珠海人精神品质的塑造

在近代中国历史上,珠海涌现出大批知名人士,这些名人开风气之先,改变了中国历史发展的轨迹,为近代中国的发展起到了重要推动作用。他们留下的优良历史传统塑造了近代以来珠海人敢为人先、勇于开拓、开放包容、爱国爱家的精神品质。     

Immigrant Struggles in New Orleans Post-Katrina

Race relations in New Orleans have often been narrowed to Black and white, especially pre-Katrina. According to the 2000 census, the city was about 67% African American, 27% white, 2% Asian, and 3% “Hispanic.” In a city with a deep history of racial tensions between Black and white, other people of color—and especially recent immigrants—often went unmentioned in discussions of city demographics. The city’s world famous culture—whether in the traditions of Mardi Gras Indians and secondline parades, or in music like jazz and bounce—is also famously rooted in specifically African cultures. Even in media coverage of the city post-Katrina, the story of immigrant experiences has remained mostly invisible. When these stories have been told, they have often fit into the old stereotypes of “model minorities” (as in the case of the Vietnamese recovery) or of low-wage workers stealing jobs (as in the case of news reports on the city’s new Latino population). However, the stories of these other New Orleanians offer an important lens through which to view the overall struggle over the city’s recovery. And the work of grassroots activists from these communities, who strived to not only work for justice for their friends and neighbors, but also to build broad multi-racial alliances, provides an inspiring example for people in other cities who are waging similar fights.