"十二五"上海商务立法探析

上海建设四个中心的目标以及后世博时代上海城市的内涵发展对商务立法带来了新的机遇和挑战。有必要加快地方商务立法,完善商务法治建设,充分发挥商务立法在内贸和外贸发展方面的积极作用。本文对十二五时期上海商务立法发展的机遇与要求、指导思想和主要目标、主要任务以及保障措施作了一些探讨。     

Would adopting the Australian dollar provide superior monetary policy in New Zealand?

Counterfactual experiments with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's core model provide some insight into the implications for New Zealand's economic performance over the 1990s, had it credibly fixed its currency to the Australian dollar. If New Zealand had faced the relatively more stimulatory Australian monetary conditions prevailing over the 1990s, then output growth may have been temporarily boosted. However, demand pressures would have probably been greater and inflation higher. In particular, results suggest that over the latter part of the 1990s annual inflation would have been approximately 1% point higher on average. Stochastic simulation experiments provide a vehicle to analyse what the implications of currency union might be more generally. Results suggest that if New Zealand were to lose its ability to set monetary policy independent of that set in Australia, then the variability of inflation and output would increase over the business cycle.     

我国公众参与行政立法的制度设计

公众参与行政立法机制的建立需要完善的制度保障。其中行政立法动议制度和听证会制度是公众参与行政立法的核心制度;行政立法公开制度、回避制度、说明理由制度是公众参与行政立法的配套制度。     

金融犯罪种类划分及其特征揭示——兼论金融犯罪的此罪与彼罪之界分

金融犯罪作为一种新型经济犯罪,目前立法、司法部门及刑法学界对有关此类犯罪问题的研究尚不够全面、深入,其中对金融犯罪进行科学、合理分类并揭示其特征是亟需研究的基本问题之一。通过综合研析刑法理论界颇具代表性的客体、行为、混合等诸种分类法之优劣,紧密结合我国现行刑法所作的立法分类,提出以混合分类法为基本思路,依据金融犯罪所侵犯客体的相同性,兼顾犯罪方法的特殊性,作进一步的分类细化,以期形成符合我国实际的金融犯罪分类设想;同时,充分揭示不同类型金融犯罪构成特征,全面把握金融犯罪此罪彼罪界限所在,从而为金融刑事立法不断完善以及司法部门正确定罪量刑提供有利的依据。     

高等教育投入立法的构想

高等教育财政投入立法是中国未来法制建设中的重要环节。在分析中国高等教育投入立法及其现状基础上,针对存在问题,借鉴英、美等国经验,可以提出完善中国高等教育立法的一系列制度设计和规则设定。     

The public R&D and productivity growth in Australia's broadacre agriculture: is there a link?

This paper investigates the dynamic relationships between research and development (R&D) expenditure and productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture using aggregate time series data for the period 1953 to 2009. The results show a cointegrating relationship between R&D and productivity growth and a unidirectional causality from R&D to TFP (total factor productivity) growth in Australian broadacre agriculture. Using the dynamic properties of the model, data from beyond the sample period are analysed by employing the variance decomposition and the impulse response function. The findings reveal that R&D can be readily linked to the variation in productivity growth beyond the sample period. Furthermore, the forecasting results indicate that a significant out‐of‐sample relationship exists between public R&D and productivity in broadacre agriculture.     

On the rebound: estimating direct rebound effects for Australian households

Reducing dependence on fossil fuels by decreasing energy consumption is a common environmental policy. One mechanism used to achieve this is to encourage increased energy efficiency. However, improving efficiency may have an opposing effect and cause an increase in energy consumption if the intensity of use changes. This phenomenon is known as the rebound effect. We estimate direct rebound effects for energy use in Australia based on both aggregate residential energy use data and on household energy expenditure data. Our approach implements a new methodology developed by Hunt and Ryan (2014, Catching on the rebound: Why price elasticities are generally inappropriate measures of rebound effects. Surrey Energy Economics Discussion Paper Series SEEDS 148; 2015, Energy Economics 50, 273) that explicitly relates energy service use with energy source demand and directly incorporates measures of efficiency changes. The results indicate that the rebound effect is relatively high for energy use by Australian households. Due to the unique nature of our household data set, we can examine the influence of demographic and housing characteristics. We find that low‐income households and households with vulnerable members have the largest rebound effects. The relatively large rebound effects found here suggest that consumers gain from efficiency by improved energy services, and thus, policy targeting energy efficiency is not likely to be successful at reducing energy consumption.     

俄罗斯职业教育及其对我国职业教育改革的启示

本文主要通过对俄罗斯职业教育近况的介绍分析,与中国目前的职业技术教育相对比,从中找到差距和存在的问题,以资为中国职业教育改革提供借鉴。     

澳大利亚社区口译教学及其启示

近年来，我国的社区口译需求呈上升趋势，但合格的专业社区口译员相当紧缺。澳大利亚成熟的社区口译人才培养机制，帮助这个多元文化国家建立起一个发达的社区口译服务系统。通过分析澳大利亚社区口译教学体系，能对我国的社区口译人才培养带来一定的启发。     

URBAN HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN CITIES

Urban growth is a major theme in economic development and a policy imperative for developed countries that seek to create sustainable cities. We argue that the past weighs heavily on the ability of societies to sustainably manage urban environments. The policy implications of urban history are revealed in comparisons of cities across times and between places. The special issue presents some of the best recent work on the economic and social history of Australian cities. We aim to encourage historians to incorporate urban variables into studies of historical processes and to persuade policymakers to consider historical trends in their analysis.