Not all trade restrictions are created equally

There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. This introduction has highlighted the importance of the entry/exit decision of firms in response to changes in trade barriers. However, it is typical in many of these models to use iceberg transport costs as a general form of trade barriers that can be interchangeable with ad valorem tariffs. I show that this is not always an appropriate conclusion. Specifically, I illustrate that profit for an exporter is more elastic in response to tariffs than iceberg transport costs, which affects the entry/exit decision of firms. This has implications for welfare analysis and empirical specifications.     

Should multivariate early warning systems for banking crises pool across regions?

Most extant work on prediction of banking crises has utilised global samples, which are in turn dominated by observations from middle-income countries, and rely on a single estimator. However, economic and financial structures as well as the pattern of shocks may differ substantially across regions, while a range of specifications is desirable to check robustness. Accordingly, in this paper we test the implicit pooling assumption in earlier multivariate work on Early Warning Systems using both logit and binary recursive tree specifications separately for crises in Asia and Latin America, as well as the pooled sample. Results suggest markedly different crisis determinants across regions, implying global samples are inappropriate.     

Foreign Investors in The Netherlands: Heterogeneous Employment and Productivity Effects

Recent academic research suggests that the effects of inward foreign direct investment for productivity and employment may vary across foreign investors with different characteristics. Using a newly created dataset that integrates micro-level information from The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and Statistics Netherlands, this paper explores the role of several of these characteristics, including e.g. the country of origin, activities and tasks, age and strategic role of foreign affiliates in The Netherlands in the 2000–2007 period. Our analysis shows that important employment and productivity differences exist for nearly all these dimensions.     

对高等院校知识管理的几点思考

知识管理越来越受企业重视,在高校教育中实施知识管理虽有很多困难,但已成为必然趋势。只有做好充足的先前准备,掌握实施知识管理的重点步骤和方法,高等院校知识管理才能迈向一个新台阶。     

What Can China Do About Health Products Industry?

We now watch advertisement on health products,beauty and body care products everyday everywhere,which actually shows how big the industry is and will be, Yu Xiucheng,former deputy director of Science& Technology and Education Department of Ministry of Health (MOH) said.     

监狱电子政务信息安全调查及改进方案

本文针对全国监狱电子政务信息安全方面问题,采用样本法,选取全国较典型监狱进行研究,收集了当前我国监狱电子政务在信息安全方面的现状、不足等信息,并进一步研究、提出了针对硬、软件及工作人员的几点可行的改进方案。