A brief technology assessment of the Carbon Dioxide effect

Significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are occuring as a result of fossil fuel combustion. More than a four-fold increase over preindustrial levels may occur by the year 2100. Heating of the atmosphere, changes in precipitation patterns and global storm paths, and other resulting effects are sure to cause significant social changes. This article is essentially a methodological case study demonstrating a useful but inexpensive type of technology assessment. It summarizes current research findings on “the CO₂ effect,” and presents hitherto unpublished findings that resulted from a brief but systems-oriented approach. These findings suggest that most published forecasts of phenomena associated with a CO₂ buildup may be systematically low because various positive feedback relationships are not reflected.     

Current Account, Capital Formation and Terms of Trade Shocks: a Revisit of the Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect

This paper extends the Blanchard model of a closed-economy to a three-good (exportable, importable and non-tradable goods) open-economy model with capital accumulation and uncertain lifetimes to study the impacts of terms of trade shocks on the current account. The simulation results show that a model with uncertain lifetimes is more appropriate to describe a small open economy like Taiwan at the steady-state equilibrium than a model with infinite lifetimes. We find that the Harberger-Laursen-Metzler effect is discernible for temporary or permanent terms of trade shocks. Furthermore, the steady state is a saddle point and the speed of convergence of capital and consumption is quite low.     

新世纪实施科技兴海战略的思考

科技兴海是新世纪中国海洋发展的战略选择。从我国海洋科技的现状出发，探讨了开发海洋对科学技术、人才、产业开发的要求以及实施科技兴海战略应采取的措施。     

Asian Currency Crisis and the International Monetary Fund, 10 Years Later: Overview*

This paper is an overview of the Asian currency crisis in Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea in 1997–1998, with an emphasis on the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It provides a detailed account of the development of the crisis and analyses and evaluates the content of IMF advice and its consequences. The size of the IMF package for each of these three countries is judged to have been too small. This paper also has a comparative perspective; the Mexican crisis is reviewed as a precursor to the Asian crisis to see what the IMF learned, and how it prepared, for future crises. The causes of the crises and IMF conditionality for the post‐Asian crisis countries, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, and Argentina, are also compared to the Asian crisis countries. By agreeing to maintain a fixed exchange rate, for example, the IMF is judged to have been “softer” in its approach to the post‐Asian crisis countries.     

数字中国"与西部大开发

面对新世纪，结合我国国情，阐述了构建“数字中国”的重要意义和作用，并就建设和发展“数字中国”提出了一些建议，特别是指出在西部大开发进程中应充分利用现有的信息资源，实现西部经济的跨越式发展。     

宏观投资的影响因素与实证分析

在界定宏观投资的基础上，选择储蓄、价格、利润和利率等影响因素的代表变量，建立固定资产投资的理论模型；以1985－1999年为样本区间，采用SPSS统计分析软件包，对变量数据进行相关性分析和主成分分析，构建我国固定资产投资的回归模型；通过实证分析得出我国固定资产投资各影响因素的结论并给出相应的政策含义。     

国际资本流动对中国货币政策影响的实证研究

在开放经济的"三元冲突"中,中国选择了固定汇率,较严格的资本管制和较大的货币政策独立性,即用少量货币政策独立性的丧失换取有限度的资本流动.但在这种组合下,随着我国资本流动规模的扩大,货币政策独立性也将进一步丧失.对于中国,货币政策的自主权至关重要,除非有能力继续维持更严格的资本管制,我国必须逐步扩大汇率的浮动区间.     

西方国家环境信息披露:实践、特点与启示

本文介绍了美国、加拿大、荷兰、日本等国家环境信息披露的现状和发展趋势,分析了西方国家环境信息披露的特点以及信息披露后对企业的影响,总结了对我国进行环境信息披露的启示。     

经理股票期权与会计信息失真

本文分析了经理股票期权的激励原理,对它的理论假设提出了质疑,从而揭示了这一激励机制产生偏差的根本原因,并从本源上探寻了经理股票期权与会计信息失真的联系。     

上市公司股利政策的特点、成因及对策

股利政策是上市公司将税后收益在股东所得股利和留存收益之间进行的合理配置的策略,会对公司的股票市价和公司的市场形象产生巨大的影响。本文主要根据上市公司股利政策分配方案,全面客观地对我国的股票市场进行分析,并为公司今后制定出合理的股利分配政策提出参考意见。