Currency devaluation with flexible wages: An application of the Cebula model

The results of Salop (1974) and Purvis (1979), which have received wide acceptance among economists, show that a currency devaluation will definitely depress output if money wages are freely flexible. This note reconsiders the Salop-Purvis proposition by adopting the Cebula (1976) specification of the consumption and investment functions, and finds the proposition may not be valid under this amended framework.     

企业科技创新的会计支持——评新准则R＆D支出会计处理的国际趋同及影响

随着企业对研究与开发的重视，R＆D支出占企业总支出的比重不断增大，因此对R＆D支出的会计处理就愈显重要。我国新颁布的企业会计准则对研发支出的会计处理进行了修订。本文在分析了这一重大变革及其背景的基础上，通过对新旧准则的比较，深入剖析了新准则的规定对企业发展的重要意义，同时也指出了新准则存在的不足之处。     

浅谈农村社会保险与储蓄型养老保险

党的十六大提出"在有条件的地方,探索建立农村养老保险制度."建立农村社会养老保险制度,是建立健全我国社会保障体系的重要措施,对于深化农村改革、保障农民利益、解决农民后顾之忧、落实计划生育基本国策,应对老龄化高峰的挑战,促进农村经济发展和社会稳定,构建社会主义和谐社会,具有重要而深远的意义.本文从分析农村养老保险现状,提出农村社会养老保险必须实行储蓄型养老保险.     

The Hong Kong Fish Marketing Organization

This essay provides an explanation of the phenomenon of an apparent secular fall in captured fisheries outputs in Hong Kong transacted through the Fish Marketing Organisation. The latter is a government monopoly, with the power to compel sale of landed fish through its licensed buyers, established and protected by law. The institutional characteristic of this organisation can also explain the evolution of marine fish culture industry in the area that is not subject to the forced‐sale regulation of the Organisation, and the diversity of species commonly observed in the consumer market of cultured fish. The observed reduction in fisheries output in Hong Kong can be the consequence of regulation rather than a lack of regulation, as the ‘the tragedy of commons’ would seem to imply. Our analysis also demonstrates why the Fish Marketing Organisation has suffered from a growing budgetary deficit in recent years.     

浅析城市政体理论的发展与运用

城市的发展早已经不仅仅是物质层面、经济层面上的问题。随着城市规模的不断扩大和城市人群的日趋多元化,更多的城市问题被理解成为社会问题、政治问题。城市研究者把眼光转向城市内部,通过观察城市政府的政治行为,探索社会经济活动中政治结构的存在和发展规律。城市政体理论(UrbanRegimeTheory)即为探索该问题的理论流派。本文意在介绍这一思潮的基本思想、理论根源和发展历程,以及其在中国语境下的解读和运用。     

企业伦理价值、组织承诺与人员-组织配适关系之研究-以流通连锁产业为例

本文以台湾流通连锁产业为例,研究了企业伦理价值、组织承诺以及人员与组织配适关系。     

Efficiency Wages and Nominal Income Targeting in an Open Economy

Abstract. This paper considers the choice between nominal income and money supply targeting in an open economy with efficiency wages. The results show that, when real unemployment benefits are rigid, both nominal income and money supply targeting have the same stabilizing performance. On the contrary, if nominal unemployment benefits are rigid, then we come to a conclusion that either in the face of goods demand shocks or aggregate supply shocks, a sufficient condition for nominal income targeting to be preferable is that the income elasticity of money demand be less than unity.     

Banks’ capital buffer,risk and performance in the Canadian banking system: Impact of business cycles and regulatory changes

Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks’ capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap imposed by Canadian banking regulations did not change this cyclical behavior of Canadian bank capital. We find Canadian banks to be well-capitalized and that they hold a larger capital buffer in expansion than in recession, which may explain how they weathered the recent subprime financial crisis so well. This evidence that Canadian banks ride the business and regulatory periods underscores the appropriateness of a both micro- and a macro-prudential “through-the-cycle” approach to capital adequacy as advocated in the proposed Basel III framework to strengthen the resilience of the banking sector.     

Polynomial spline estimation for generalized varying coefficient partially linear models with a diverging number of components

Generalized varying coefficient partially linear models are a flexible class of semiparametric models that deal with data with different types of responses. In this paper, we focus on polynomial spline estimator as a computationally easier alternative to the more commonly used local polynomial regression approach, since one can directly take advantage of many existing implementations for generalized linear models. Furthermore, motivated by the high dimensionality characteristics that accompany many modern data sets nowadays, we investigate its asymptotic properties when both the number of nonparametric and the number of parametric components grows with, but is still smaller than, the sample size. Simulations and a real data example are used to illustrate our proposal.