土地集中经营的有效方式探讨

目前我国粮食生产的经营规模仍然较小,其难点是土地集中困难.文章从土地转出方、土地转入方及土地流转机制不健全等方面分析土地集中困难的原因,提出有效的土地集中经营方式.在此基础上,提出稳定农民非农收入；完善农村社会保障体系；健全土地流转机制；降低土地流转风险等加强土地集中经营的对策建议.     

Product Differentiation in the Spanish Beef Industry

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate changes in the structure of the Spanish quality beef industry in response to the significant decline in beef consumption happened over the last few decades. The role of product differentiation, mechanisms and factors involved in it, are specially studied. We use focus groups and a survey to examine the outlook for the organization of the beef industry, and trends in the development of product differentiation mechanisms and vertical co-ordination strategies.

Results reveal the existence of a restructuring process that is being implemented in two ways: Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) and Quality Certified Brands (QCB). Each strategy forms its own entry barriers: the origin of calves in the case of PGI and farm size in QCB; they are therefore complementary rather than competitive.     

Industry Structure and Corporate Debt Maturity

We examine how industry competition affects firms’ choice of short‐term debt. We find that the percentage of short‐term debt is positively related to industry concentration at low levels of concentration, and inversely related to industry concentration at higher levels of concentration. This nonlinear relation is stronger in industries where firms are either more homogeneous or compete more aggressively. Moreover, we find that firms with shorter‐maturity debt are less aggressive than their rivals in the product market. The overall evidence suggests that although financial contracts alleviate agency problems, they exacerbate the risk of predation.     

产业集聚的机制与效应分析——以河南省数据为例

本文改进了Ellision和Glaeser定义的地理集中度指数,建立了产业集中度指数并对河南省2003-2009年20个产业的集聚程度进行了测算。我们的结论是,河南省20个产业在2003-2006年间总体集聚程度提高,在2006-2009年间集聚程度大幅下降;河南省产业集聚程度变动的机制与各产业拥有的垄断优势强弱呈正相关关系;这种垄断优势不一定是大企业所特有的,中小企业如果在技术、管理和品牌方面拥有垄断优势也会加强产业的集聚程度,相反大企业仅仅生产规模大而没有其他的垄断优势,则产业的集聚程度会减弱。Porterd和Krugman的产业集聚促进经济增长的理论并不适合所有的产业;产业集聚如果要促进产业和经济的增长,关键是要培育产业在全国范围内技术、资本、管理和品牌方面的垄断优势;河南省总体的垄断优势在全国有弱化的趋势,因此加紧培育产业的垄断优势就成为河南省乃至各地区经济发展的一项重要任务。     

沪通铁路建设背景下的南通区位形势及交通行业影响预测

沪通铁路建设的帷幕在南通提出加快沿江沿海开发和建设长三角北翼经济中心的背景下正式拉开。沪通铁路工程将对南通地方交通格局及交通运输行业形成重要影响。文章将首先对南通地方交通体系的历史和现状作简要陈述,在此基础上,围绕沪通铁路的建设对完善南通地方交通体系格局的作用展开分析,然后就该工程对南通地方交通行业的影响作综合分析和预测。     

20Kt/a煅烧焦回转窑耐高温下料溜管技术改造的研究

介绍在大港油田20Kt/a煅烧焦厂煅烧回转窑高温下料溜管的投产使用中,针对出现的焊口开裂、高温下管体变形等一系列问题,通过焊接应力分析、高温温差应力、溜管整体结构受力分析等方法和原理,从整体结构和焊接方法两方面进行技术改造,探讨出符合大港油田20Kt/a煅烧焦60米回转窑使用要求的耐高温下料溜管制作安装方法。     

News from the Monopoly Front: Changes in Industrial Concentration, 1992–1997

Comparing concentration ratios between 1992 and 1997 raises difficulties because the 1997 data are arranged according to a new industrial nomenclature. By comparing concentration ratios in industries where the definition did not change, it is possible to make comparisons of changes in concentration between the two years and to document the considerable changes in industrial structure in the manufacturing and retail sectors.     

Market Power,Efficiency and the Dispersion of Systematic Risk

A number of studies have used the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to integrate product market and financial theories of the firm. We reexamine the relationship between product market structure and systematic risk at the firm and industry level. We show that theory yields no testable implications at the firm level. We show, however, that there is a relationship between the intraindustry dispersion of systematic risk and industry concentration which depends on the causes and consequences of concentration. Estimates of the relationship between the intraindustry variance of and concentration for a 1987 cross-section of U.S. industries suggest that concentration allows larger firms to exercise market power.     

Auditor Concentration: A Replication and Extension for the UK Audit Market 1991–1995

This paper examines the issue of auditor concentration in the UK during the period from 1991 to 1995. It shows that in 1995 the Big Six held 75% of the total number of audits and collectively earned 92% of the total audit fees. There was only a small increase in auditor concentration during the five year period, resulting from companies switching from small audit firms to Big Six and newly listed companies choosing a Big Six firm. The paper also examines auditor concentration within industries. Finally, the study assesses the measurement methods most commonly used in auditor concentration studies.     

How do income and education affect health inequality: evidence from four developing countries

Using household survey data from four countries ? Albania, Nepal, Tajikistan and Tanzania ? this article calculates income-related inequality in health care utilization. We measure health disparity separately for generally and chronically ill individuals by constructing two models: one for the probability of a visit to a physician and another for the number of visits. Following model-based measurements, we decompose inequality into two major parts: one accounted for by identity-related factors and another by socioeconomic and other factors such as education, geography and distance to a clinic. We propose a new method to quantify the effect of changes in income and education on health disparity. One of our important findings suggests that health disparity is pro-rich in all our sample countries. The pro-rich disparity is prevalent among generally ill as well as chronically ill patients, in both visit probability and visit frequency models. Health inequality seems primarily driven by income differences followed by nonidentity factors. Further, the principle of equal treatment for equal need is not fulfilled in any of our countries. Among policy implications, increasing average income and education in a way that also reduces disparity in income and education, respectively, will substantially shrink inequality in health care utilization.