Milanovic,Branko: Capitalism: Alone

Journal of Economics -     

Thailand wine tourism: a dream or a reality?

Conventionally, wine tourism is mainly popular in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Europe regions. Interestingly, Thailand, despite being a young wine-producing country, has emerged as a potential wine tourism provider within the Southeast Asia regions. This research aimed to evaluate the competitiveness of Thailand wine tourism’s within its regional growth. Porter’s Four Diamond Model was used as a tool to assess this industry competitiveness. Three wineries in Thailand were visited and qualitative approaches comprising interview and observation were utilized as the means of data collection. Triangulation was used to analyze the reliability of the data gathered. The finding showed that wine tourism in Thailand was still an infant industry as most tourists and tourism operators were still not aware of the product offered. However, the wineries themselves had already owned the competency to serve the market.     

流通模式对优质农产品生产者价格的影响研究

本文比较分析了"农户+经纪人+批发商+零售商"和"农户+合作社+超市"两种流通模式对优质农产品生产者价格的影响。研究发现,在合作社发展较为完备时,"农户+合作社+超市"更有助于实现优质优价,这主要是因为合作社与社员之间的共赢利益联结机制激励合作社通过组织化降低流通成本并与农户分享收益;而批发商和农户之间存在明显的利益冲突,且经纪人作为中间人更容易受到交易"数量激励"而非交易"价格激励"。此外,"农户+经纪人+批发商+零售商"模式在解决农产品"销售难"问题上仍然发挥重要作用。     

Victims of road accidents with serious injuries and dependence on some individual,climatic and infrastructure factors on federal highways in Brazil

Abstract

Road or urban traffic accidents in Brazil have a large presence in external causes of mortality. The main goal of this study is to discover significant factors in the incidence of accidents on Brazilian highways based on a database with information on each person injured on federal highways in Brazil reported by the Federal Highway Police. Some factors are considered in the study as cause of the accident, type of accident, stage of the day, weather condition, highway type, highway facility, age of the victim, gender of the victim and type of vehicle. From the obtained results of chi-square tests and logistic regression models, it was observed statistical dependence (p?<?0.05) of the occurrence of injured people with serious injuries and the factors cause of the accident, type of accident, day, highway type and vehicle type. Considering the dead victims, the covariates age, time of day, highway type, highway facility, gender and type of vehicle showed significance (p?<?0.05). These results are of great interest for authorities to increase road enforcement, improve highway facilities and target the production of vehicles with better safety standards.     

我国水尺计重影响因素及优化方式的研究进展

水尺计重是现代航运贸易中大宗廉价散货交接的重要手段。本文对影响水尺计重的计量因素进行汇总分析,结合我国行业发展现状,总结水尺计重优化方式,为水尺计重行业的持续发展提供参考。     

Housing, consumption and monetary policy: How different are the US and the euro area?

This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the role of the housing market in the macroeconomy in the US and the euro area. First, it establishes some stylised facts concerning key variables in the housing market on the two sides of the Atlantic, such as real house prices, residential investment and mortgage debt. It then presents evidence from Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVAR) by focusing on the effects of monetary policy, credit supply and housing demand shocks on the housing market and the broader economy. The analysis shows that similarities outweigh differences as far as the housing market is concerned. The empirical evidence suggests a stronger role for housing in the transmission of monetary policy shocks in the US. The evidence is less clear-cut for housing demand shocks. Finally, credit supply shocks seem to matter more in the euro area.     

Fourth order pseudo maximum likelihood methods

We extend PML theory to account for information on the conditional moments up to order four, but without assuming a parametric model, to avoid a risk of misspecification of the conditional distribution. The key statistical tool is the quartic exponential family, which allows us to generalize the PML2 and QGPML1 methods proposed in Gourieroux et al. (1984) to PML4 and QGPML2 methods, respectively. An asymptotic theory is developed. The key numerical tool that we use is the Gauss-Freud integration scheme that solves a computational problem that has previously been raised in several fields. Simulation exercises demonstrate the feasibility and robustness of the methods.     

桂林旅游目的地品牌延伸的探讨及策略研究

品牌延伸是旅游目的地可持续发展的关键因素,甚至是各个旅游目的地间相互竞争的最高境界。桂林旅游目的地品牌的深度挖掘、旅游品牌的创新依然还停留在一个较低的层面上。桂林旅游目的地应通过实施旅游品牌的产品创新、旅游品牌的促销创新和旅游品牌联合等策略,提高桂林旅游目的地的品牌建设,促进桂林旅游目的地的和谐发展。     

Assessing the impact of migration on food and nutrition security

Migration has become a key component in the livelihood strategies of an increasing number of households across the developing world and remittances have expanded dramatically in the last decade. This has come at a time when an increased emphasis has been placed on reducing malnutrition to achieve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. While this is the case, there has been little attention on the interface between migration and nutrition even though migration can influence nutrition through a number of channels. The objective of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art analyses of the link between migration and nutrition in developing countries. In this paper, an overview of the conceptual and empirical issues in identifying the link between migration and nutrition are considered. Further, the results from seven country case studies are synthesized and policy implications are drawn.