DETERMINANTS OF SCHOOL ENROLMENT AND EDUCATION ATTAINMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA1

This paper investigates the determinants of demand for schooling in Kenya. Probit and ordered probit methods are used to model enrolment and attainment respectively. The results show that child characteristics, parental education and other household characteristics, quality and cost of schooling are important determinants of demand for education services in Kenya. The results further show that girls would be more affected by policy changes than boys. The findings call for targeting in efforts to boost and sustain demand for schooling in Kenya. The study recommends immediate policy interventions focusing on improving quality of education and poverty alleviation.     

The Effect of EMU on Tourism*

This paper estimates the effect of the euro on intra‐EMU tourist flows by using a panel dataset of 20 OECD countries over the period 1995–2002. The results reveal that the euro has increased tourism, with an effect of around 6.5%. This is a noticeable impact given the early stage of the EMU analyzed. The robustness checks show that the evidence of a positive impact is quite widespread across EMU destination countries.     

我国中小企业开展融资租赁的现状及对策

中小企业在发展过程中主要障碍之一就是融资难,如何解决中小企业的融资问题也就成为社会各界研究的焦点,尽管提出各种各样的措施来解决,但收效甚微,基本上是“治标不治本”,本文以福建省(泉州)中小企业的发展现状为例,从国际租赁的角度探讨解决困扰中小企业融资问题的途径。     

货币联盟中的货币政策承诺与财政纪律

单一货币政策和成员国分散的财政政策的相互作用和协调是货币联盟面临的一个重要问题。本文运用博弈模型分析了货币联盟中有关财政与货币政策几种协调安排的宏观经济含义,指出在成员国无法达成目标一致的条件下,财政纪律和货币政策承诺有助于通货膨胀目标的实现,但产出目标能否实现则取决于财政纪律的合理性。合理的财政纪律必须考虑成员国基础环境、财政政策乘数及其溢出效应以及潜在产出水平等因素。无效的财政纪律将损害货币政策承诺的效力。本文认为2005年欧洲经济货币联盟对《稳定与增长公约》的改革只是缓和了危机而没有从根本上解决危机,财政纪律危机风波仍将上演,对SGP的改革也远未结束。     

市场经济下税制改革的理论基础:税收相对中性论

社会主义市场经济体制的核心内容在于发挥市场在资源配置中的基础性作用。税制改革作为社会主义市场经济体制改革的一个重要组成部分:一方面,发挥市场配置资源的基础性作用,以减少政府因课税对经济的低效干预;另一方面,政府也应发挥税制在国家宏观经济调控中的作用,以保证国家各项经济政策的贯彻执行。这要求我们在进行市场经济税制改革时,应兼顾税收中性与税收调控,以税收相对中性论为理论基础,进一步深化我国税制改革。     

我国工业部门关税保护的动因结构、效应和优化——基于新政治经济学的经验分析

在关税减让方面,我国已经从2001年14.77%的平均水平降到了2005年底的9.9%①,实际上超前完成了入世承诺的内容.本文通过对我国入世过渡期工业部门关税从水平向结构改革的过程中,关税变动的复杂利益驱动结构效应的研究及其经验研究,厘清了关税改革的理论与实践依据,并对进一步的关税结构优化提出若干建议.     

上市公司自愿性信息披露对提升公司价值的影响——基于我国证券市场的进一步验证

对于上市公司自愿性信息披露能否影响公司的价值,论文将采用托宾Q（Tobin＇sQ）作为衡量公司价值的指标,揭示中国上市公司自愿性战略信息披露、自愿性非财务信息披露、自愿性财务信息披露与公司价值的关系,本文将构建模型,并采集2005年度的数据进行进一步实证分析,结果表明：自愿性非财务信息披露水平对提升公司价值有显著的作用,竞争程度高的上市公司的自愿性信息披露对公司价值的影响更为显著。     

新加坡华资银行的家族管理

传统华族文化对新加坡华资银行业至今仍有巨大影响的是家文化以及由之衍生的家族管理模式。出于权力情结及对职业经理人诚信、职业道德的担心,这种管理模式仍盛行于现存两大华资银行。本文简要分析了该模式在华资银行存在、发展、变化的原因。     

Do Foreign Greenfields Outperform Foreign Acquisitions or Vice Versa? An Institutional Perspective

abstract Prior studies of the comparative performance of greenfields and acquisitions have advanced competing arguments, with some arguing that greenfields should outperform acquisitions because acquisitions are costlier to integrate, and others that acquisitions should outperform greenfields because greenfields suffer from a liability of newness. Moreover, while the costs of integration and the liability of newness are at their greatest during a subsidiary's first years, prior studies have tested their competing arguments on samples containing older subsidiaries. We extend these prior studies by (1) developing an institutional theory‐based framework that simultaneously considers the costs of integration and the liability of newness, (2) recognizing that both types of costs vary with the level of subsidiary integration, and (3) focusing on the stage of their life during which subsidiaries predominantly incur these costs. To measure subsidiary performance, we ask managers of Dutch multinationals how their ex ante performance expectations compare to the subsidiary's ex post performance during its first two years. Analysing a sample of 191 foreign subsidiaries and controlling for entry mode self‐selection and other factors, we find that acquisitions outperform greenfields at low and intermediate levels of subsidiary integration, but that greenfields outperform acquisitions at higher integration levels.     

原始服饰艺术思维的当代影响剖析

原始服饰艺术是原始人类在那个懵懂的时代朴素的智慧结晶,当代服饰艺术设计在寻求新的突破的同时,也需要回眸那种早已消逝的自然和恬淡,也许我们来提取和重温的时候更能体味元素里的伟大,也更能感受到原始艺术思维的清新和无法逾越的自然高度。本文将从原始服饰艺术的各种代表思维表现中挖掘原始元素,通过对比和传承关系来说明和剖析其对当代的影响及其对现代服装设计的借鉴意义。