Regional innovation and small high technology firms in peripheral regions

This paper highlights the difficulty of developing HT firms in a peripheral region of Spain. Although the endogenous development of HT firms in these regions is possible, their evolution depends on more central regions. The firm's geographical location and the type of HT production are the most important endogenous factors governing the firm's success.     

特色经济:西部民族地区落实科学发展观的契入点

经济竞争的实质是特色经济和特色产业的竞争。特色经济具有优势性、效益性、连带性、可持续性、动态性等基本特征。大力发展特色经济,是西部民族地区落实科学发展观的契入点和必然选择。     

路过天空——深圳航空平面广告创意手记

曾经读过泰戈尔的这句“天空没有翅膀的痕迹，而我已飞过”。无奈地承认，这曾是对天空最美丽的想象。不过生存要继续。2006，深航，我们要继续为它构筑在天空的远大版图。 航空业显然是不轻松的，高风险低回报，加之油价上涨、外航潜人、国内航空公司3＋X竞争局面的加剧…在高度发展的商业社会中，天空中也有狭路相逢之时。     

2005年国外大石油公司经营状况及发展动向

2005年,埃克森美孚、BP、壳牌、雪佛龙和道达尔的净利润总额达到1131亿美元,比上年上涨了29%;油气产量同比下降了3%,原油加工量和油品销售量也出现明显滑坡;受天然气储量增长的拉动,年末剩余可采油气储量为739亿桶油当量,与上年基本持平,油气储量接替率为107%,比上年增加了46个百分点,但石油储量接替率仅为62%;单位油气生产成本为4.92美元/桶,比2004年增加了20.4%.在新的经营环境下,五大石油公司对经营战略进行了调整.一是在加大投资力度的同时,保持审慎的投资原则,资本支出增幅小于国际原油价格上涨幅度.二是为利润的长期增长进行战略性投资,继续推行向上游倾斜的政策.三是进行资产优化组合,剥离成本高、缺乏发展潜力的非战略核心资产,提高资本回报率.四是选择符合发展战略、资产匹配性好的中型石油公司进行并购,以实现近期产量增长目标.五是为了减少再投资的风险,增加派息和股份回购,将高油价所带来的超额盈利回报股东.六是发展替代能源和可再生能源.     

Inequality foundations of concentration measures: An application to the Hannah-Kay indices

The aim of this paper is to provide a connection between concentration and inequality. In particular, we show that the general entropy inequality indices are, among inequality measures, those consistent with the whole set of Hannah-Kay concentration indices. We isolate the inequality component underlying concentration measures, obtaining an explicit additive decomposition of the change in concentration into the change in its two components, i.e., inequality and the number of firms. This relationship proves to be valid for the whole set of Hannah-Kay concentration indices, and embodies as particular cases some others previously found in the literature. We are particularly grateful to Emilio Cerdá for helpful comments on the mathematical formulation of the paper. The second author also acknowledges support through the European Commission Project #ERBCHRXCT980248.     

The endless need for regulation in telecommunication: An explanation

Telecommunication services have existed as a legal monopoly nearly throughout its entire history. In 1998, telecom market liberalisation was achieved across the European Union (EU) through the introduction of competition among telephone services. Asymmetrical obligations were deemed necessary in order to compensate the market power of the former monopolist.As the evolution of asymmetrical regulation in Spain illustrates, obligations and the telecommunications operators subject to them increased with the regulatory framework established in 2002 in the EU. This new regulatory framework may continue to expand through the inclusion of functional separation as another possible asymmetrical obligation. In short, it seems that the regulatory pressure on the telecommunications industry is increasing, despite the lapse in time since the liberalisation of the industry.In this paper, a methodology developed by the Austrian School of Economics is applied in order to explain why the telecommunication market is subject to increasing regulation in Europe, rather than deregulation, after more than 10 years of liberalisation. In particular, Mises's theory of price control is used to explain the evolution of the regulation of local loop unbundling.     

浅谈假日经济对中国经济的长期拉动效应

假日经济已成为国民经济的重要组成部分,并在国民经济中发挥着日益重要的作用。但在假日经济的发展过程中,也出现了一系列的负面效应,影响了假日经济的持续发展。文章就如何发挥假日经济的长期拉动效应,提出了相应的对策。     

人口老龄化背景下农村养老的困境及其路径选择——基于安徽省砀山县的实证分析

在中国农村人口老龄化程度快速发展背景下，中国农村养老面临的形势不容乐观。文章基于对安徽省砀山县农村养老状况的调查，在论述当前农村养老的基本现状以及存在的主要问题的基础上，提出了农村养老保障体系建设应遵循既要使农村社会的养老资源得到充分整合又要体现社会主义新农村建设的要求的基本思路。同时，积极推进农村养老保险制度创新、尽快编织农村最低生活保障“安全网”以及不断完善新型农村合作医疗制度是当前农村养老保障工作的重心。     

论法官政治素质

法律与政治的密不可分、司法机构的政治属性及司法职业自身的政治因素决定了政治素质是法官素质的重要内容。法官政治素质包括保持司法独立、以人民利益为重、保持司法克制、区分政治问题和法律问题以及约束自身政治活动等内容。培养与提高法官政治素质，应当从法官选任重视政治素质标准、继续教育注重政治素质培养和完善职业保障机制等方面入手。