Trade, product cycles, and inequality within and between countries

Abstract.  This paper incorporates Northern product innovation and product‐cycle‐driven technology transfer into the continuum‐of‐goods Heckscher‐Ohlin model. The creation of very skill‐intensive goods induces the North to transfer production of older, less skill‐intensive goods to the South. These relocated goods are the most skill intensive by Southern standards. Hence, product cycles raise the relative demand for skilled workers and thus wage inequality within both regions. This runs contrary to the Stolper‐Samuelson theorem, but accords well with the fact that wage inequality has risen in both Northern and Southern countries. Moreover, product cycles increase income inequality between countries. JEL classification: F1     

Deposit insurance and bank regulation in a monetary economy: a general equilibrium exposition

Summary. It is commonly argued that poorly designed banking system safety nets are largely to blame for the frequency and severity of modern banking crises. For example, underpriced deposit insurance and/or low reserve requirements are often viewed as factors that encourage risk-taking by banks. In this paper, we study the effects of three policy variables: deposit insurance premia, reserve requirements and the way in which the costs of bank bailouts are financed. We show that when deposit insurance premia are low, the monetization of bank bailout costs may not be more inflationary than financing these costs out of general revenue. This is because, while monetizing the costs increases the inflation tax rate, higher levels of general taxation reduce savings, deposits, bank reserves, and the inflation tax base. Increasing the inflation tax rate obviously raises inflation, but so does an erosion of the inflation tax base. We also find that low deposit insurance premia or low reserve requirements may not be associated with a high rate of bank failure.Received: 2 January 2002, Revised: 1 March 2003JEL Classification Numbers: D5, E5, G1.B. D. Smith: Sadly, our co-author, colleague and dear friend, Bruce D. Smith, died on July 9, 2002.     

犯罪对金融发展的影响研究——基于中国经验的实证研究

在理论上,犯罪活动可能通过弱化财产安全和交易契约的有效性、阻碍社会资本的形成和成长以及恶化投资环境等渠道阻碍金融的深化。本文基于中国１９９７-２００９年３０个省市的面板数据的分析结果证实,在控制住经济变量、法律环境等变量之后,犯罪率显著地阻碍了中国的金融发展。总体而言,每万人的犯罪人数每增加一例,当地金融中介的私人贷款占ＧＤＰ的比例将下降１．６个百分点左右;同时,分地区考察的结果还发现,在金融深化水平更高的东部地区,犯罪率对金融发展的阻碍作用也更大,意味着犯罪率对金融发展的阻碍程度与金融发展水平有关。     

刍论编辑出版心理学

编辑出版心理学有理由作为编辑出版学与心理学的交叉学科而独立存在。随着时代的进步，编辑出版学的对象和任务都发生了很大变化，编辑出版心理学成为编辑出版学与心理学的交叉学科是时代的必然。编辑出版心理学以现代出版物、用户群体和心理学研究三方面的客观要求为基础，主要任务是揭示编辑出版过程中各方面和各环节心理现象的本质和它发生、发展的规律。     

科技法的价值目标重述

人在科技活动这一追求自由的重要领域中,不仅增进了人认识和改造世界的能力,而且扩展了整个人类社会的自由。科技进步在给人带来更大自由的同时,也释放出了越来越巨大的能量,不断解构和重构着现实的社会秩序,因此,极有必要将其纳入稳健的法律秩序之内,以便在正义的旗帜的引导下尽可能有效地使其盲目性得以克服,进而达致自由与秩序的和谐,推动科学技术朝着符合人的自由本性的方向演进。     

基于斑-廊-基-缘的乡村旅游空间规划理论探讨

乡村旅游空间要素可划分为斑、廊、基、缘四大部分.旅游的本质是旅游者通过对景点斑的体验获得心理慰藉;风景交通廊是架构旅游者和景点斑的通道,并且也承担了部分景观功能;旅游配套设施、基础设施和乡村社会环境构成了乡村旅游的宏大环境基质;区域旅游协作要求乡村旅游空间具有开放性特征,与周边缘的关系也就成为乡村旅游空间研究的重要内容.旅游流的引入使得静止的乡村旅游空间格局具有动态变化性,自然力和竞争力作用使得乡村旅游空间格局变动由无序走向有序.     

从日语成语和谚语来源看日语文化

日语谚语丰富多彩,表达生动准确,这是日本文化善于吸收外来文化以丰富自己,同时又富于改造和创新精神的表现。     

广州市区商品住宅空置现状与成因分析

通过实地抽样调查，摸清了广州市区近3年建筑竣工的商品住宅分行政区、分地段、分类型空置状况并分析其原因。认为广州市房地产业发展取得巨大成就的同时，不要忽视商品住宅的空置问题，要切实采取有效措施，积极消化现有空置住宅，以利于广州市房地产业的可持续发展。     

东西部人口再生产与人口转变差距的影响因素探析

经济社会发展的不平衡性;计划生育政策及其实施效果的地区差异;自然地理条件的殊异;以及民族文化的反差, 是影响东西部人口再生产及其转变的重要致因, 四个因素的共同作用决定了东西部人口再生产状况及其转变差距。     

中国粮食生产空间布局变迁实证

中国的粮食生产空间布局区域特征明显,了解中国粮食生产空间布局变化特征及影响因素对于制定合理的粮食生产政策具有重要意义,文章运用空间计量经济学Moran I指数及Panel Data模型,分析了中国31个省级区域粮食生产空间布局特征及其影响因素.