Efficiency measurement and decomposition for the Chinese state-owned commercial banks at the provincial level

This study adopts a bank production function approach to the measurement of efficiency of the Chinese state-owned commercial banking groups at the provincial level from 1998 to 2003. Applying Data Envelopment Analysis and efficiency decomposition analysis, this paper for the first time presents detailed empirical evidence on the technical efficiencies of the Chinese state-owned commercial banks across both the provinces and banking groups. The empirical evidence has revealed limited effects of the banking reform programmes and highlighted the need to encourage spatial competition and corporate governance reform across Chinese provinces and to take differential strategies to further improve operational efficiency at the provincial branch level.     

A critical evaluation of alternative methods and paradigms for conducting mediation analysis in operations management research

Mediation as a theory testing approach has witnessed considerable adoption among Operations Management (OM) researchers. Although mediation-testing methods have evolved tremendously in the past decade, their dissemination in the OM field has not seen parallel growth. These advanced techniques facilitate the testing of existing and complex hypotheses in a more precise manner. With the intent of critically evaluating existing and alternative methods for conducting mediation analysis needed to support sophisticated empirical research, this paper first reviews OM studies that tested for mediation in the past eleven years (2002–2012) from top-tier OM journals. Four commonly used mediation approaches were identified. Based on principles of good theory building, type of mediation model, and properties of empirical data, we evaluate the existing methodologies and make recommendations on how to improve the rigor of OM mediation testing. Using published OM studies in top journals as examples, we then illustrate the relevance and advantages of these recommendations, as well as their ease of use. Furthermore, we empirically show that more robust and insightful results can be achieved by adopting these techniques, which in turn have the promise of leading to better theory building and testing in the field of operations management.     

A Field Experiment in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

We study the effect of social information on the voluntary provision of public goods. Competing theories predict that others' contributions might be either substitutes or complements to one's own. We demonstrate a positive social information effect on individual contributions, supporting theories of complementarities. We find the most influential level of social information is drawn from the 90th to 95th percentile of previous contributions. We furthermore find the effect to be significant for new members but not for renewing members. In the most effective condition, social information increases contributions by 12% ($13). These increased contributions do not crowd out future contributions.     

Ecological footprint of Gansu Province, China between 1997 and 2002： changes and inducement

The calculation of Ecological Footprint （EF） on the basis of Input-Output model （I-O model） was advanced by Bicknell, and modified and improved hy Ferng who corrected the footprint＇s aggregation to each sectors. For the lack of sufficient teehnique to deal with the trade between the research areas and the rest of the world, it it necessary to improve this method. And a dynamic analysis of the change of footprint based on I-O model, which could explore the factor impacting the footprint using the ,special advantage of I-O model, ought to be put into practice. After introducing the new method in detail, we calculate and compare the EF and the change of Gansu Province in the northwest of China in 1997 and 2002. The result shows that there was an increase of EF in 2002 caused by final domestic demand. Further; the inerement in EF export was 2.0 × 10^5 ha and 1.6 × 10^6 ha in import. The out-of- region support dropped from 22.6% to 18. 6%. We introduce three factors causing the EF change based on the character of I-O model： the productivity of the resourve which is explained by the change of resource used to obtain one unit output in a sector, the improvement of the economics and the final demand. Finally, we find that the effects of the three factors on the EF change are not identical except the industry sectors and the change of factors in the agriculture and the industry sectors works notably.     

房地产基本估价方法比较研究

鉴于人们在进行房地产估价的实际操作中,对采用不同估价方法所得出的结果存在差异及采用什么估价方法存在困惑的缘故,文章将市场比较法、成本法、收益法进行比较,找出其差异与关联性,有助于更好地理解房地产估价的原理,把握房地产估价的实质。     

技术性贸易壁垒中的政府剩余控制权问题研究——对TBT的一个新制度经济学分析框架

本文引入新制度经济学的不完全契约与剩余控制权概念,将TBT以及相关协议看作各国政府签定的一个有关技术性贸易壁垒的不完全契约。由于契约的不完全,从而导致了政府在技术性贸易壁垒问题上的剩余控制权。本文尝试建立起对于技术性贸易壁垒问题的新制度经济学的分析框架,并在此框架下探讨了技术性贸易壁垒层出不穷的制度根源以及政府剩余控制权的结构、特点、表现等。最后,从制度层面上给出了降低技术性贸易壁垒的相关建议。     

新加坡对华投资的现状及对策

在面对21世纪经济全球化的挑战，特别是2001年以来全球经济普遍衰退的情况下，新加坡为寻求新的发展机遇，提出了三大战略，即“高科技战略”、“中国战略”和“扩大腹地战略”。新加坡政府有关部门以及工商界对赴华投资更是跃跃欲试，新一轮的对华投资热潮即将到来。在这样的背景下，有必要对新加坡在华投资的情况进行一下回顾和总结，从而使新加坡赴我国投资在新的基础上取得更快更好的发展。     

浅论影响我国房地产市场的因素及因素的影响

本文主要通过分析影响我国房地产市场继续上扬的因素,包括我国宏观经济将持续保持良好势头、城市化水平的迅速提高、人民币仍处于升值通道中等;以及促使房地产市场回归理性的因素,包括加息、加大保障性住房的供给力度、提高房贷首付、房地产开发及土地储备贷款受到严格管控、开征物业税等;并且具体分析了它们是如何影响市场的,并最终得出结论。     

广西重点实验室管理和运行机制的问题与对策

文章系统地介绍了广西重点实验室的管理模式和运行机制,并针对实验室管理和运行中存在的问题,探讨改革和完善实验室管理和运行机制的对策建议。     

试论我国经常项目均衡管理的基本思路及实现机制

经常项目外汇均衡管理机制的构建是我国实现外汇均衡管理的一个重要组成部分。由于经常项目均衡在国际收支均衡中的基础性作用,在现阶段人民币资本项目尚未完全可兑换情况下,这种机制构造既有迫切性更有挑战性。本文比较系统地探讨了我国经常项目外汇均衡管理思路及实现机制设想,旨在对现行经常项目外汇管理制度扬弃的基础上,以总量风险管理与均衡管理为视角,探索人民币可兑换进程中外汇监管有效性与经营便利性相统一的经常项目外汇均衡管理的机制,以期对我国经常项目外汇管理的体制转型实现我国经常项目乃至我国国际收支的可维持性起到积极促进作用。