Outsourcing and trade in a spatial world

This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model à la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-related production cost advantages of a large economy and we investigate how the existence of national transport costs influences both the structure of industrial production and the pattern of final goods trade. In addition, the model gives a rich picture of the possible welfare effects of trade liberalization. In particular, we show that a final goods exporting country definitely gains from economic integration, while a final goods importing country may lose. Finally, when lowering domestic outsourcing activities, trade liberalization may reduce world welfare, even if pro-competitive effects lead to a decline in consumer prices.     

Trade matters except to war neighbors: The international stock market reaction to 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

We investigate the role of international trade and proximity to war in international stock markets during the invasion of Ukraine by employing DiD designs and panel data comprising 70 stock markets. We find that differences in trade exposure to warring countries (trade effect) have a substantial and negative impact on non-European equity markets but are irrelevant for European markets. In contrast, differences in the distance to warring countries (proximity effect) have a significant and negative impact on European markets but have no bearing on non-European markets. We find that the relevance of rent from mineral, natural gas, and oil resources and the relevance of metals, ores, and fuels in exports operate as mitigators of the trade effect. Our paper provides valuable empirical evidence regarding the importance of mitigating the vulnerability of financial markets to international trade when a major war breaks out.     

我国国债规模的现状评价分析

当前，我国国债规模急剧扩张，这已引起社会各界的广泛关注。文章就此通过分析我国国债规模的衡量指标以及现状，提出了控制国债规模应从构建与市场经济相适应的财政收支制度着手的新举措。     

关于韩非法治思想与现代法律的思考

针对先秦儒家的"德治"主张,韩非提出了"法治"理论.韩非的法治思想其实质是君主专制与国家(政府)集权,它与现代法治所倡导的民主与法制精神相悖.但这种"国家(政府)法治"传统却被我们自觉或不自觉地因袭了下来,成为我国经济改革深化和转变政府职能的巨大障碍.为了建立一个好的市场经济,防止滑入一个坏的市场经济,法治应该由国家统治社会和民众的工具变为保护社会和民众的工具,进而成为社会和民众自我保护的工具.法律应该由君主专制的利器变为社会和民众捍卫民主与自由的盾牌.     

中部省份在国家经济发展战略西移中崛起的若干思考

国家经济发展战略西移将对我国区域经济发展格局产生非常显著的影响。对中部省份而言，机遇与挑战并存。中部省份在全国经济发展中所处的地位、全国性的经济技术转移、地区产业结构调整与升级要求等，使得中部省份有条件在国家经济发展战略西移过程中迅速崛起。中部省份必须营造良好的发展环境，加快基础设施建设，积极调整产业结构，选择培育经济发展极，调整与完善各项政策，积极探索区域经济合作的新模式等，以实现中部与西部地区的共同发展。     

Regional, national, and spatially explicit scenarios of demographic and economic change based on SRES

We report here spatially explicit scenario interpretations for population and economic activity (GDP) for the time period 1990 to 2100 based on three scenarios (A2, B1, and B2) from the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES). At the highest degree of spatial detail, the scenario indicators are calculated at a 0.5 by 0.5 degree resolution. All three scenarios follow the qualitative scenario characteristics, as outlined in the original SRES scenarios. Two scenarios (B1 and B2) also follow (with minor adjustments due to scenario improvements) the original SRES quantifications at the level of 4 and 11 world regions respectively. The quantification of the original SRES A2 scenario has been revised to reflect recent changing perceptions on the demographic outlook of world population growth. In this revised “high population growth” scenario, A2r world population reaches some 12 billion by 2100 (as opposed to some 15 billion in the original SRES A2 scenario) and is characterized by a “delayed fertility transition” that is also mirrored in a delayed (economic) development catch-up, resulting in an initially stagnating and subsequently only very slow reduction in income disparities. The spatially explicit scenario interpretation proceeds via two steps. Through a combination of decomposition and optimization methods, world regional scenario results are first disaggregated to the level of 185 countries. In a subsequent second step, national results are further disaggregated to a grid cell level, taking urbanization and regional (rural–urban) income disparities explicitly into account. A distinguishing feature of the spatially explicit scenario results reported here is that both methodologies, as well as numerical assumptions underlying the “downscaling” exercise, are scenario-dependent, leading to distinctly different spatial patterns of population and economic activities across the three scenarios examined.     

新世纪前20年我国经济建设的宏观布局

在本世纪头20年的经济建设宏观布局中，要抓住现代化进程的重点，走新型工业化之路；解决全面建设小康社会的难点，繁荣农村经济；调整地区经济协调发展的均衡点，积极推进西部大开发；磨合国内经济与国际经济的对接点，全面提高对外开放水平；紧扣经济建设的根本出发点和归宿点，不断改善人民生活；优化发展与改革的聚合点，革除一切影响发展的体制性弊端。     

FDI与中国:外国直接投资研究述评

外国直接投资联动形成的经济成分在中国国民经济中的成长已成为发达经济与发展中经济对接的世界性事件。梳理外国直接投资研究的新进展,剖析其对中国宏观经济的影响与挑战。     

基于Miller-Orr模型的省级政府现金管理实证研究

现代国库制度的两项重要功能是,确保对预算执行过程的有效监控和对政府现金资源的妥善管理,而高效的现金管理系统对监控预算执行起着重要的支持性作用.在政府现金管理已逐渐为政府和理论界所关注的背景下,本文从政府现金管理的基本理论、本质及意义入手,以实际调研数据为基础,通过将西部某省2003-2005年的实际数据运用到修正的Miller-Orr模型中,较准确的测算出了2006年该省国库现金月余额的控制范围,为建立省级政府现金管理模式提供了有益的参考.     

国家综合配套改革区与制度的空间演化分析

建立国家综合配套改革试验区,不仅是为了促进滨海新区及天津市的发展,更重要的是推动环渤海地区,乃至整个北方地区的发展,形成新的区域发展模式。这就要求在理论上不仅要考虑到技术、制度的因素,也要考虑到空间的因素对国家综合配套改革试验区理论模型的影响。具体研究空间因素对国家综合配套改革试验区的影响有助于准确理解和把握国家综合配套改革试验区的空间作用,形成新的区域增长方式和区域发展模式,为在全国范围内贯彻科学发展观和构建和谐社会提供崭新的思路和视角。