Exclusive dealing without territory exclusivity in multichannel systems: managing channel conflict and driving commitment

The exclusive dealing literature suggests that manufacturers should protect exclusive dealers (ED) from intrabrand competition by assigning exclusive territories (ET). We consider ED systems without ET and investigate how manufacturers can enhance ED channel outcomes, such as the ED’s level of commitment to the relationship, by strategically managing its downstream communication efforts with ED and non-ED channels. We show that these cross-channel communication efforts (i.e., the quality of communication between the manufacturer and non-ED resellers in the ED reseller’s territory) are important drivers of relationship conflict and commitment for ED resellers, while playing a limited role for non-ED resellers. These results underscore the need for manufacturers to understand the perspectives and behaviors of each individual channel within a multichannel system and manage their different distribution channel types as an integrated system. We find support for our hypotheses in a sample of 672 observations corresponding to different ED and non-ED resellers selling a manufacturer’s product-line across several European countries.     

国家自然科学基金分配中的“马太效应”及其变化分析

国家自然科学基金是我国科研基金体系中的重要组成部分,其资金分配问题一直备受关注。通过“基尼系数”这一反映贫富差距的经济学指标变化趋势,对2001-2015年国家自然科学基金分配中的“马太效应”进行了实证分析。结果表明,资助额度越高的项目,基尼系数越大,在资金分配过程中的“马太效应”越明显。国家自然科学基金中的“重点”、“杰青”项目与“面上”、“青年”项目相比,具有更明显的优势累积现象,但“青年”项目的基尼系数自2009年以来呈逐渐下降趋势,其资金分配日趋合理。最后,基于上述研究结果,对国家自然科学基金分配中“马太效应”的合理性进行了分析,并就基金的合理分配提出了相关建议。     

教育筹资机制：结构、效应与趋势

教育筹资体系具有系统性,可以从转移支付性、市场与计划性、财政性与金融性等多个角度分析和认识。教育财政资金与教育金融资金都能改善教育的公平程度。然而两者在渠道过程、甄别标准、配置效率、激励效应等方面存在较大的特征或效率差异。同时启动两种机制,促其“强强联手”,不仅可以降低“机制失灵”,还可以在良性机制效应方面互相融合放大。由于制度产生的后序性问题,债性教育金融制度,特别是股性教育金融制度的构建与改良需要观念创新与政策支持。     

民族传统文化教育面临的几个问题

民族传统文化伴随着社会与民族的发展不断的积淀,通过教育传承和传扬。民族发展的不同环境、社会需求的复杂性使民族传统文化教育面临不同的问题。本文对现阶段民族传统文化教育面临的保持民族性与体现时代性问题、传承与创新中的变异问题、传统文化与外来文化问题、民族理论教学与民族传统文化教育等问题进行简要分析,以期推动民族传统文化教育,促进民族地区经济文化的健康发展。     

The Year in Economics at the FCC: A National Plan for Broadband

The past year in economics at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has focused on encouraging the adoption and deployment of high capacity Internet access and the associated networks, commonly termed “broadband.” Our article sketches important economic themes in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan to show how the application of basic principles of regulatory economics takes account of rapid technological change. We discuss natural monopoly regulation, externalities and cross-subsidies, network effects and interconnection, the allocation of scarce inputs, protecting and fostering competitive markets, and consumer protection and transparency as they apply to the development of broadband.     

On the Portfolio Properties of Real Estate in Good Times and Bad Times1

Motivated by the theoretical results on strategic asset allocation, we examine the gains in portfolio performance when investors diversify into different asset classes, with particular focus on the timeliness of such gains. Although the various asset classes we analyze yield significant gains in portfolio performance, even in the presence of short‐sales constraints, the timeliness of the gains differs considerably across the asset classes. Our key result is that real estate and commodities and precious metals are the two asset classes that deliver portfolio gains when consumption growth is low and/or volatile, that is, when investors really care for such benefits. Our analysis highlights an important metric by which to judge the attractiveness of an asset class in a portfolio context, namely the timeliness of the gains in portfolio performance. Further, our results on the performance of real estate in both good times and bad times suggest that the typical institutional allocation to real estate may underweight the role of the asset class in a diversified portfolio context.     

我国人力资本与文化产业发展的灰色关联分析

选取1997年～2007年的数据作为样本空间．采用灰色关联法对我国人力资本与文化产业之间的关联度进行了定量分析。结果表明：人力资本与文化产业的发展具有较高的关联度,从关联度来看,尤其是受中等教育人口比重与文化产业发展的关联度非常高。基于这一结论,提出相关政策建议     

CCD非接触检测技术在工业生产中的实际应用

电荷耦合器件(CCD)是20世纪70年代开发及应用的一种新型微型图像传感器,广泛应用于在线检测,处理速度快,可进行非接触尺寸测量和实时监控,灵敏度和精细度高,噪音低,便于进行数字化处理和与计算机连接。介绍了CCD的主要测量原理及在工业生产领域中的应用。     

大学生体质状况的典型相关分析

本文介绍了典型相关分析的基本原理,并对我院1991年在校大学生的体质进行了形态,机能,素质的典型相关分析,找出了与其关系最密切的因素。