Beliefs of and attitudes toward political advertising: An exploratory investigation

The major goals of this study were to identify voters' belief structures about political advertising, develop a scale to measure beliefs, and examine how the identified beliefs are related to overall attitudes toward political advertising. The reliabilities, factor structure, and validity tests indicate that five belief dimensions—information, veracity, cynicism, money politics, and entertainment—have sound and stable properties. The scale demonstrates that voters assess political advertising at the instrumental level (e.g., information, veracity, and entertainment) as well as the institutional level (e.g., cynicism and money politics). The results showed that not all beliefs predicted overall attitudes. Furthermore, the results indicated that political involvement was a significant factor in influencing both beliefs and attitudes. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

资产结构与企业经营绩效的最优化配置研究——以中国纺织机械股份有限公司为例

本文认为,较之资本结构,资产结构的研究更具实际应用价值和普适意义,它们才是创造公司价值和抵御各项风险的源泉。基于此,本文试图从逻辑和实证两个角度评价资产结构与企业绩效之间的关系,并希望通过评价实证结论的相关性程度,来求得各变量之间的函数方程式。在此基础上,本文再分别进行各变量的曲线拟合,试图通过在建立拟合方程模型的基础上,求出其最优资产配置值。     

促进社会公平的公共政策

贫富差距过大是当前我国经济社会中的一个突出问题。在调节收入差距，促进社会公平方面，作为公共政策的财税政策能发挥重要作用。文章在分析目前我国收入差距的基础上，从完善公共财政制度和调整税收政策与制度两个方面论述了这一问题。主要内容包括：调整事权划分，实现基层政府财政的财权、财力与事权相匹配；完善均等化的转移支付制度，加强向中西部地区的转移力度；以公平为导向优化调整税制结构；完善调节个人收入分配的税收体系；推进个人所得税征管制度改革等。     

房地产金融调控新“亮剑”

2007年9月27日中央政府出台的《关于加强商业性房地产信贷管理的通知》实质上是国家新一轮产业大调整的开始,开发商对此认识不足,造成十分被动的局面。2008年8月28日中央政府颁布了《金融促进节约集约用地的通知》,第一次使土地管理和金融管理结合到一个文件,表示了政府在房地产领域控制金融风险的决心和力度。开发商应正确领会。     

Health and economic growth in high-income countries revisited: evidence from an augmented production function for the period 1980–2009

This paper uses time series data for seven industrialized countries from 1980–2009 to explore the causality between health care expenditure (HCE) and economic growth. We have set up a classical Cobb–Douglas production function including HCE, labor, capital, and an augmented function additionally including the number of patent applications (as a proxy for technology and research) and the total number of tertiary education students (as a proxy for education). Our results show that there is a long-run relationship between growth and HCE. As regards causality, in the classical production function, evidence for mutual causality between GDP and HCE is noted only in France, Germany and England, causality from HCE to GDP is noted in Italy and Japan, while no causality whatsoever is evidenced in Canada and USA. However, a completely different situation is unveiled when the augmented production function is used with mutual causality being noted in all perused variables. The novelty of our study lies first in that it contributes to the health-growth nexus literature for high-income countries which has been quite controversial and second it sets off new variables whose omission might be one of the reasons of the result dichotomy. Results of this study will be very useful for high-income countries currently afflicted by the economic crisis and embark on HCE curtailments or revisions.     

Tariffs versus anti-dumping duties

Tariffs and anti-dumping duties are two important tools used to protect industries from foreign competition and to generate revenue. While the two tools have been studied extensively in separate contexts, little is known about their comparative effects. This paper compares their effects on prices, profits, government revenue, industry protection, and welfare in a two-country framework where a dominant firm in one country exports to the other inhabited by an oligopoly. Conditions under which one tool dominates the other for a given criterion are provided.     

烟台休闲装消费市场分析

该研究将烟台消费者作为研究对象,设计调查问卷,采用实证主义研究方法,对烟台休闲装消费市场进行研究,通过相关分析,得出相应的结论,找出烟台休闲装消费者和消费市场的特点,从而有效地帮助企业了解消费者和市场,实施合理的营销策略。     

制浆过氧化氢不锈钢容器管道的不利影响及防止措施

文章阐述了纸浆过氧化氢漂白中金属离子的影响机理及来源,介绍防止制浆过氧化氢容器管道锈蚀产生不利影响的一些方法。     

巴塞尔新资本协议与我国信用评级发展研究

巴塞尔新资本协议要求金融监管当局使用信用评级这一有效的监管手段,用于监管信用风险,并根据信用评级结果的不同来源,具体给出了三种测量信用风险的方法。本文通过对每种方法的适用情况的比较分析和我国信用评级的发展水平的研究,给出了我国信用评级发展的短期和长期战略。