Integration of rice markets: the case of southern China

In this article, integration of rice markets in southern China is analyzed using the cointegration technique and monthly price data. Results show that there is a general lack of integration among the indica rice markets in China. Poor transport facilities, government interventions, and the limited amount of grain available for arbitrage are identified as the major impediments to market integration. Policy implications are discussed.     

加快大学科技园发展 促进国家创新体系建设

建立以企业为主体,市场为导向,产学相结合的技术创新体系,引导和支持创新要素向企业集聚,促进科技成果向现实生产力转化是新时期党和国家作出的重要战略部署,也是<国家中长期科学和技术发展规划纲要(2006-2020年)>顺利实施的重要保障.     

新创企业成长阶段与高管行为整合的匹配性:案例研究

在对新创企业的成长阶段进行划分的基础上,采取典型案例研究方法,分阶段地探讨高管行为整合与新创企业成长阶段的匹配性。研究发现:新创企业的成长在青春期阶段与高管行为整合的关系为不匹配,在调整期阶段与高管行为整合的关系需要根据企业是否具有行为整合的条件来确定,在稳定期阶段与高管行为整合的关系为匹配。     

国内游客饮食消费动机满足感及其满意度研究——以南京市为例

本文以南京市为例,运用调查法与统计分析法,探讨了国内游客饮食满意度与饮食消费动机满足感及其在人口学特征和出游方式方面的差异性,并进一步分析了国内游客饮食满意度与消费动机满足感之间的相关关系及结构关系。结果显示,南京市国内游客饮食消费动机满足感及其满意度的评价水平普遍不高,在人口学特征及出游方式方面的差异性不尽相同,国内游客饮食总体满意度与饮食消费动机满足感之间存在着显著的正相关关系,其中,国内游客饮食消费动机满足感对饮食总体满意度的影响程度最大的为求新求异满足感,其次是充饥满足感,再次是文化体验满足感,最小的为营养健康满足感。     

When work and family collide: ‘Resource Caravans’ of personal and contextual resources in remote work

Research on remote work remains without consensus as to its benefits, with continued questions about which factors may enable it to be more beneficial to employees working remotely. Applying Conservation of Resources theory, we explore the impact of ‘resource caravans’ on ‘work–family balance’ and subsequent ‘well-being’ in a sample of 446 remote workers. Our findings contribute to ongoing sociological debates by showing exactly how flexibility and control play a role in the remote workplace. Specifically, our model revealed that ‘sense of control’ over home was most beneficial for ‘work–family balance’ among experienced remote workers who had high levels of ‘schedule flexibility’, whereas ‘work–family balance’ benefited from lower levels of ‘schedule flexibility’ among new remote workers. Resources from the home domain were most critical for ‘work–family balance’, which mediated the effects of the ‘resource caravan’ from the home domain on overall employee ‘well-being’.     

Fiscal dependence on trade taxes and economic development: additional results and a reconciliation of the empirical evidence

Using Brazilian data spanning the period 1910–75,new evidence is presented on the hypothesis that a country's fiscal dependence on trade taxes is inversely related to her level of economic development, at least once the latter passes a certain threshold. Unlike previous studies, this study uses methods which highlight the dynamic and temporal nature of the underlying relationships. The results indicate strong support for the hypothesis and also suggest that the conflicting time-serious evidence can be reconciled.     

Liquidity constraint,uncertainty and household consumption in China

This paper investigates the changing roles played by liquidity constraint and uncertainty in accounting for the dynamism of Chinese household consumption behaviour. Starting from the Euler equation-based model of Robert Hall, a framework encompassing an array of consumption models is developed and applied to Chinese data over the period 1961?1998. Empirical results reveal a regime shift in the early 1980s and imply that increases in the proportion of liquidity constrained consumers and increased uncertainty in the post-reform period are responsible for the extremely low consumption or high savings in China. Moreover, it is found that interactions between liquidity constraint and uncertainty reinforce each other's effects and lead to declines in both the level and growth of consumption.     

Assessing the role of components of life satisfaction

Factors affecting subjective well-being and their gross effect measurement have been widely studied. However, how people derive utility from these factors has not been fully explored. This article provides a way to decompose the gross effect of major determinants on life satisfaction into direct and indirect effects and make inference for the latter. Because the indirect effect is nonlinear in parameters associated with different models in an equation system, it creates a problem in estimating the standard error. Besides, the categorical nature in survey data further introduces bias to the covariance estimation even asymptotically. To address these issues without knowing the form of heteroskedasticity under the null hypothesis, we propose to extend the wild bootstrap procedure in this particular context. Its robustness against various data properties is validated via several simulation experiments. Using three recent waves of World Values Survey, we find that the relative importance of life control has significantly increased recently, and endowing citizens with the right to enjoy their freedoms and liberties is a more effective policy in raising life satisfaction than promoting national income.