Book Reviews

Rashid Amjad (ed.), The Development of Labour Intensive Industry in ASEAN Countries, Geneva: Asian Employment Programme, International Labour Office, 1981, pp. v + 337. US$10.00.

G. J. Viksnins, Financial Deepening in ASEAN Countries, Pacific Forum. University of Hawaii Press, 1980, pp. ix + 76.

C. Sosya, L-S. Chia, W. L. Collier (eds). Man, Land and Sea, Bangkok: Agricultural Development Council, 1982, pp. ix + 320.

Joachim K. Metzner, Agriculture and Population Pressure in Sikka, Isle of Flores, (A contribution to the study of the stability of agricultural systems in the wet and dry tropics). Development Studies Centre Monograph No. 28. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1982, pp. xxxii + 355. $A15.00.

Dwight Y. King, Interest Groups and Political Linkages in Indonesia 1800–1965. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Special Report No. 20, pp. vii + 192, index.

Improving Access to Indonesian Collections in the Netherlands, Leiden: Intercontinenta No. 2, 1981, pp. 78. Dlf. l4.75.     

Jackknifing Bond Option Prices

Prices of interest rate derivative securities depend cruciallyon the mean reversion parameters of the underlying diffusions.These parameters are subject to estimation bias when standardmethods are used. The estimation bias can be substantial evenin very large samples and much more serious than the discretizationbias, and it translates into a bias in pricing bond optionsand other derivative securities that is important in practicalwork. This article proposes a very general and computationallyinexpensive method of bias reduction that is based on Quenouille's(1956; Biometrika, 43, 353–360) jackknife. We show howthe method can be applied directly to the options price itselfas well as the coefficients in the models. We investigate itsperformance in a Monte Carlo study. Empirical applications toU.S. dollar swap rates highlight the differences between bondand option prices implied by the jackknife procedure and thoseimplied by the standard approach. These differences are largeand suggest that bias reduction in pricing options is importantin practical applications.     

应重视进料加工企业通过囤积进口原材料避税问题

问题的提出 现行对进料加工企业实行的“免抵退”税管理,大部分采用“购进法”计算,即无论有无出口,企业当期进口的免税原材料均全额纳入“免抵退”计算过程。那么,企业是如何避税的呢?为了便于说明,笔者举例予以说明 。 例 1 :境内某企业与境外母公司进行进料加工对口贸易。假     

汇率变动、市场份额与中国纺织品服装出口竞争力

本文选取中国纺织品服装出口的主要海外市场——美国作为研究范围,将韩国、印度和巴基斯坦分别作为中国棉纱、棉机织物和服装成衣类纺织品出口的主要竞争对手,探讨在人民币实际有效汇率波动和贸易争端引起的市场份额不稳定的情况下,以上三类产品国际竞争力的不同表现及人民币实际有效汇率波动对中国以上三类产品价格的传递系数。研究结果显示:汇率变动对服装类和棉纱类出口价格影响具有完全传递性。导致汇率波动的压力直接传递到出口产品价格上;中国相对较高的市场份额对产品价格的积极影响力并不太大,而贸易争端导致的市场份额不稳定对以上三类纺织品的国际竞争力造成了不同程度的影响。     

PROJECTION MODELS FOR U.K. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE*

Successful policy planning depends to a large extent on being able to predict the consequences of alternative measures. In the case of agriculture, it is important to know how the future pattern of supply and demand in this sector will be affected by government action on specific issues such as farm price support, and by expected trends in macro-economic variables such as national incomes and population. This paper illustrates the application of a model of U.K. agriculture to the projection of changes in the production and consumption of food and agriculture products between now and 1975. The demand projections show the effect of important levies, and of joining the E.E.C, on future expenditure on food, while the supply projections show how the output of a number of agricultural commodities will be affected by adjusting farm prices towards E.E.C. levels.