The Costs of Increasing Transparency

In their seminal paper, Morris and Shin (Amer Econ Rev 92(5): 1521–1534, 2002a) argued that increasing the precision of public information is not always beneficial to social welfare. Svensson (Amer Econ Rev 96: 448–451, 2006) however has disputed this by saying that although feasible, the conditions for which this was true, were not all that likely. In that respect, therefore, increasing ‘transparency’ remains most of the times beneficial to social welfare. In this paper, we extend the Morris and Shin attempt by setting it up as an explicit interactive game between the Central Bank, the objectives of which we model explicitly, and the private sector. We show that in the absence of costs, both players benefit from transparency in the manner described previously in the literature, and point the differences in their gains. Following that, we then introduce the fact that increasing transparency comes at some costs and show how both players face incentives to free ride on each other as a result. The presence of costs thus alters the way in which greater transparency is attained.

Optimal insurance with background risk: An analysis of general dependence structures

Finance and Stochastics - In this paper, we consider an optimal insurance problem from the perspective of a risk-averse individual who faces an insurable risk as well as some background risk and...     

徐家围子断陷区营城组火山岩识别

勘探实践表明徐家围子断陷营城组火山机构是深层天然气藏良好的储集体。本文以徐家围子断陷中部营城组火山岩为研究对象,该区火山岩厚度大,爆发相、喷溢相和火山沉积相等各种相带均较发育,通过对火山岩地震反射特征的系统分析,总结了各种相带的具体震相特征。并以此为依据,应用趋势面属性、相干体分析技术等多种手段,对火山机构的空间分布进行了识别与预测,在营城组共识别出44个火山锥,对本区火山岩气藏的勘探开发具有一定的指导作用。     

ON THE EMERGENCE OF TOYBOYS: THE TIMING OF MARRIAGE WITH AGING AND UNCERTAIN CAREERS*

We explore how gender bias in career opportunities affects matching in a marriage market with search frictions and where an individual’s fitness decays with age. We document a “being left on the shelf” effect where young singles, who find the marriage market rapidly thins with age, rush into early partnership. Singles with stronger career opportunities, however, have a greater option value to defer marriage. More equal career opportunities for women (captured by greater schooling and better occupations) potentially explain the recent emergence of toyboy unions, in which the woman is at least 5 years older than her partner.     

光接收机原理及常见故障分析

本文简要介绍了光接收机工作原理及使用中应注意的一些问题,并结合实际对常见故障进行分析.     

试论可再生能源技术在绿色建筑中的应用

随着我国建筑行业的不断发展,为了迎合节能、环保需求,绿色建筑开始出现。对于绿色建筑来说,要想体现出环保意识,需要在建筑中添加可再生能源,这样不仅符合当前我国绿色发展的理念,还能减少对环境的污染,可以更好地保护环境。论文针对可再生能源技术在绿色建筑中的应用展开分析。     

Political disagreement in the classroom: testing cultural theory through structured observation

The cultural theory pioneered by Dame Mary Douglas has been tested with a range of research methods, but it has not yet been made subject to a ‘structured observation’. This method has been developed in psychology and management studies, and is especially useful for testing cultural theory’s prediction that fatalistic, hierarchical, egalitarian, and individualistic ways of perceiving and justifying tend to emerge in group debates about pressing social and environmental issues. We present the results of a structured observation of this prediction. Groups of high school students (aged 17–19) were asked for their opinions concerning three to five ‘wicked’ (i.e., highly complex) problems, and to discuss how to resolve them. Each utterance was coded according to the rationalities proposed by cultural theory. The results confirm cultural theory’s hypothesis that all four specific ways of defining, perceiving and resolving a wicked problem emerge when a number of people debate such an issue. We also discuss how Douglas’ cultural theory can be further developed and tested. Finally, we use our study to outline how the method of structured observation can contribute to political culture research in general.     

集体林区林业专业合作社人才培养质量评估研究

基于福建省83个林业专业合作社的调查数据,运用层次分析法,构建集体林区林业专业合作社人才培养质量的评估模型,并对其进行分析。结果表明:被调查的83个林业专业合作社的人才培养质量评估的各个维度的评估、总体评估的结果均不理想。因此,提出加强对人才培养的重视,营造良好氛围;精心规划培养内容和方法,提高培养的实效性;充分运用多方资源,系统拟定分类人才培养规划;增加人才培养的投入,完善配套制度安排等建议。