Economics and Management Theory: New Developments in France

Management theory, initially mostly concerned with establishing a set of normative principles aiming to train practicing managers, has developed a substantial body of theory and several original strands of research. It has traditionally drawn its inspiration largely from economic theory, but has integrated elements of sociology, law and social psychology, among other disciplines. In France, a set of relevant recent and innovative approaches come from recent developments in economic theory gathered generally under the label of 'economics of conventions. 'The paper attempts to characterize the main features of the'economics of conventions' and the ways in which it is relevant and provides fruitful new approaches to management theory.     

法国金融市场监管管窥

2003年法国的《金融安全法》将原有的三大金融管理机构——证券交易委员会、金融市场委员会以及金融管理纪律委员会整占为一个全新的金融市场监管机构：金融市场管理局。尽管汇集了原三大机构的权限及特征，但金融市场管理局不管是在性质和机构组成上，还是在运作和权限上，都展现了相当独特的一面，值得研究与借鉴。     

Growth gains from trade and education

A multi-sector general equilibrium model is presented where education enhances general human capital, which is essential for increasing or maintaining the mobility of workers across industries. The paper shows that international trade, combined with education, can have a positive growth effect by allowing workers to move easily to, and specialize in, the industry with the greatest productivity in each period, which enables an economy to grow in the long run at the growth rate of the industry with the most rapid technical progress. Depending on the initial ratio of general-to-specific human capital stock, multiple equilibrium growth paths can exist including a poverty trap, and trade liberalization can allow an economy in a poverty trap to transform into one with continuous education and higher output growth.     

Central Region:The Next Destination?

A new set of policies for processing trade were jointly imple mented by China's Ministry of Commerce and General Customs Office last year,with the goal of promoting trade balance,relieving the sharp contrast in China's huge trade surplus,as well as pushing forward with the improvement and transformation of the industry.     

Golden South Africa,Great Development

On the occasion of the 10th panniversary of diplomatic relations between China and South Africa in 2008, China is celebrating ＂South Africa Week＂ to commemorate. H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the minister of South Africa,     

Taking the ontological and materialist turns: Agential realism,representation theory,and accounting information systems

Karen Barad’s (2007) agential realism conceives the world as intra-acting agencies that take definite form only when an agential cut is made. In the information systems discipline, her theory underpins much of the work that goes under the rubric of sociomateriality. Importantly, her work challenges the validity of theories about the world based on representationalism and so-called Cartesian dualism. At least some scholars who subscribe to sociomateriality argue that one consequence of Barad’s theory is that information systems theories such as representation theory stand on shaky grounds. I subject this proposition to scrutiny. I begin by summarizing the major tenets of representation theory and agential realism. Next, I use agential realism to provide an account of phenomena that are associated with an accounting information systems case study. I then evaluate the account, particularly from the perspective of what novel, innovative insights occur by using an agential realism lens. Compared to existing theories such as actor-network theory and general systems theory, I conclude that little new is learned. Moreover, I argue that representation theory provides an alternative, robust account of the case-study phenomena. I also consider the question of whether agential realism potentially provides accounting information systems scholars with a means of identifying the core of their field and constructing theories about any core they might identify.     

Agricultural liberalization,poverty and inequality: Indonesia and Thailand

The effects of agricultural and general trade liberalization in Indonesia and Thailand are analyzed and compared using a multi-household, multi-sector integrated general equilibrium framework. In both countries agricultural protection contributes a relatively small part of the total cost of protection because when the protection is removed the gain in welfare is much smaller in the case of agricultural liberalization than across the board liberalization. In both countries the poor, urban and rural, have a strong interest in across the board liberalization of trade policy. The urban poor also have an interest in agricultural trade liberalization, but not the rural poor.     

A model to forecast airport-level General Aviation demand

General Aviation (GA) demand forecast plays an important role in aviation management, planning and policy making. The objective of this paper is to develop an airport-level GA demand forecast model. The GA demand at an airport is modeled as a function of social-economic and demographic factors, the availability of supply factors, the competition from the commercial aviation, the number of based aircraft, and the presence of a flight school. Our models suggest that the relative fuel price – fuel price compared with personal income – is a significant determinant of airport level GA demand. The elasticity of itinerant and local GA demand with respect to the relative fuel price is −0.43 and −0.52, respectively. Our results are compared with those reported in other studies. Furthermore, we made projections of GA demand for the airports in the Terminal Area Forecast (TAF) using three fuel price scenarios from the Energy Information Administration. Our projections under the “business-as-usual” fuel price scenario are close to those in the TAF. Our models could prove useful, for example, for the Federal Aviation Administration and airport planners to prepare airport-level GA demand forecast.     

真实世界中注射用矛头蝮蛇血凝酶在外科应用的药物经济学

目的评价注射用矛头蝮蛇血凝酶和注射用尖吻蝮蛇血凝酶应用于普外科和泌尿外科的疗效和经济学优势。方法通过回顾性数据库研究,获得注射用矛头蝮蛇血凝酶(巴曲亭■)和注射用尖吻蝮蛇血凝酶(苏灵■)的疗效和成本数据,以估计总失血量(e TBL)为主要疗效指标,并采用最小成本法进行经济学分析。结果巴曲亭组和苏灵组的e TBL分别为0.28 ml、0.31 ml,差异无统计学意义(P>0.05);巴曲亭组和苏灵组的每人均次药费分别155.59元、336.71元,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论注射用矛头蝮蛇血凝酶(巴曲亭■)应用于普外科和泌尿外科的经济性优于注射用尖吻蝮蛇血凝酶(苏灵■)。