Subsidies as sorting devices

The divergence between tax payments and the cost of providing public services that arise from financing local public services provides an incentive for higher-income communities to deter the entry of lower-income households into their community. Here we demonstrate that higher-income households, to insure that low-income households do not enter their community or reduce the number that do enter, subsidize goods consumed by higher-income households more than by lower-income households. This strategy will make the rich community less attractive to the poor, deterring their entry to the community.     

Disclosure regulation and public policy a sociohistorical reappraisal

This study questions contemporary precepts concerning the SEC's disclosure system as being both ahistorical and asocial. The authors suggest that disclosure was but one of several modes for resolving the contradiction between an individualistic, market-based public philosophy and increasing economic concentration and centralization. When understood in these terms, the securities acts are seen not as fundamental changes in public policy but as part of an ongoing attempt to maintain an ideological, social, and economic status quo.     

From Experience: Building Balanced Innovation Teams

If we could match the natural abilities of people to the different tasks of an innovation team, we could get more effective teams and more satisfied people. Warren Lamb uses a special way of assessing the natural ability of people and a special way of defining managerial tasks to help organizations achieve productive matchings. His approach is intriguing—and successful.     

What does liberalisation do for exports and growth?

What Does Liberalisation Do for Exports and Growth? - This paper addresses the issues of whether exports and growth are related and whether any relationship appears to be affected by liberalisation. A production function approach using time series analysis is used to investigate both issues, for a sample of some 14 countries which have undergone liberalisation episodes. The results suggest that though exports and growth are positively related, the relationship does not appear to be a robust one. Moreover, it is a relationship which appears to be significantly affected by liberalisation in only a minority of cases.     

How New Product Strategies Impact on Performance

What is involved in a successful new product program? Is it high spending on risky R&D? Is it close contact with customers? Is it the overall competitive strength of the firm? Well, it might be any of these things, and more, according to Robert G. Cooper, depending on your definition of success. In an exhaustive examination of the new product strategies and performances of 122 industrial products firms, Cooper found that the strategy that a firm elects for its new product program is closely linked to the performance results that firm achieves. But what's performance? Cooper's analysis uncovered three different and independent ways of viewing new product performance. He brings some clarity to the meaning of a “high-performance” product innovation program, but there's a catch—the strategies leading to high performance in one direction are quite different from the strategies leading to positive results by other measures. In his summing up, Professor Cooper proposes sets of generalized strategies—guides to action—that product innovation managers should consider.     

Nonparametric estimates of productivity and efficiency change in Australian Broadacre Agriculture

This paper computes and decomposes Färe‐Primont indexes of total factor productivity of Australian broadacre agriculture by estimating distance functions. Using state‐level data from 1990 to 2011, the empirical results show that TFP grew at an average rate of 1.36 per cent per annum in the broadacre agriculture over the period 1990–2011. There are variations of total factor productivity (TFP) growth across states and fluctuations over time within each state and territory. However, overall, there is a clear movement towards slower TFP growth across the sample period. Further decomposition of TFP growth shows that it is declining growth in technical possibilities (technological progress) that is the main driver of the declining trend in productivity growth in broadacre agriculture in Australia.     

Farm-gate tomato price negotiations under asymmetric information

This article provides an empirical analysis of farm‐gate tomato price negotiations under asymmetric information. Regression models are estimated to analyze when and by how much sellers stick to their initial ask prices and what explains the variation in the initial ask–offer price spread. Detailed information on 66 farm‐gate tomato transactions and daily tomato wholesale price data from the central vegetable market in Addis Ababa are used for the analysis. Estimation results show that farmers are less committed to their initial ask price when the buyer speaks out the transaction price first, when their quality perceptions of the tomatoes being transacted differ from those of the buyers, and when their tomato farm is at a large distance from the main road. Sellers stick more to their initial ask price when they know that the central market price is high. The initial ask–offer price spread decreases when the buyer speaks out the initial negotiation price first, but increases in the difference in quality perception between buyer and seller, and in the quantity of tomatoes being transacted.     

东风商用车网络营销对策

随着Internet的迅速发展,数字化信息技术和网络媒体技术不断成熟,网络营销已经成为各大汽车生产厂家争相追逐的新型营销模式。本文通过对东风商用车网络营销现状的考察,分析了东风商用车现有网络营销业务模块、网络营销人才以及网络营销手段存在的不足;结合东风商用车网络营销的经营实际,提出了建立网络订购平台、开辟"on-line 4S店"、引进并培养专业汽车网络营销队伍以及增加"推广"功能、完善信息发布功能和网络活动多元化的营销对策,以不断丰富其现有的网络营销手段。     

焙烧时间对LiNi_xFe_(1-X)PO_4(0≤x≤0.02)合成性能的影响

本实验采用固相工艺分别制备了LiNixFe1-XPO4(0≤x≤0.02),并对材料进行了晶体结构、表面形貌、容量性能以及循环性能的表征,通过比较发现几种焙烧时间下制备的掺杂型LiNixFe1-XPO4(0≤x≤0.02)均具有橄榄石结构,从电化学性能测试结果,可以看出650℃下焙烧10小时合成的材料具有更加优异的容量性能和循环性能。     

我国互联网金融产业的商业模式研究

互联网金融呈现全行业、产业化联盟发展趋势,此时,亟待解决的问题是构建其商业模式支持体系。以“3-4-8”商业模式体系为基础,对互联网金融产业的价值主张、价值网络、价值维护、价值实现四个构成单元进行分析,构建互联网金融产业的商业模式。最后提出加强对互联网金融产业的监管与风险防范、营造良好的互联网金融产业发展环境、促进互联网金融企业与担保机构合作的政策建议。