How effective is European merger control?

This paper applies an intuitive approach based on stock market data to a unique dataset of large concentrations during the period 1990–2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust decision, i.e. if there is a negative relation between announcement and decision abnormal returns. To clearly identify the events' competitive effects, we explicitly control for the market expectation about the outcome of the merger control procedure and run several robustness checks to assess the role of our maintained assumptions. We find that only outright prohibitions completely reverse the rents measured around a merger's announcement. On average, remedies seem to be only partially capable of reverting announcement abnormal returns. Yet they seem to be more effective when applied during the first rather than the second investigation phase and in subsamples where our assumptions are more likely to hold. Moreover, the European Commission appears to learn over time.     

Entry costs, industry structure, and cross-country income and TFP differences

Entry costs vary dramatically across countries. To assess their impact on cross-country differences in output and TFP, we construct a model with endogenous entry and operation decisions by firms. We calibrate the model to match the U.S. distribution of employment and firms by size. Higher entry costs lead to greater misallocation of productive factors and lower TFP and output. In the model, countries in the lowest decile of the entry costs distribution have 1.32 to 1.45 times higher TFP and 1.52 to 1.75 times higher output per worker than countries in the highest decile. As in the data, higher entry costs are associated with lower entry rates and business density.     

Outside versus inside bonds: A Modigliani–Miller type result for liquidity constrained economies

When agents are liquidity constrained, two options exist – sell assets or borrow. We compare the allocations arising in two economies: in one, agents can sell government (outside) bonds and in the other they can borrow by issuing (inside) bonds. All transactions are voluntary, implying no taxation or forced redemption of private debt. We show that any allocation in the economy with inside bonds can be replicated in the economy with outside bonds but that the converse is not true. However, the optimal policy in each economy makes the allocations equivalent.     

中国能源消费、碳排放与工业经济增长——一个脱钩理论视角的实证分析

本文利用相对“脱钩”、“复钩”的理论与测度模型,对2000—2009年我国工业经济增长与能源消费和碳排放之间的脱钩关系进行研究。在此基础上,对脱钩评价模型进行扩展,构建了脱钩指数分解模型,对脱钩关系的影响因素作出了更为深入的分析,并指出未来工业脱钩发展措施的重点方向是在进一步提升能效技术的基础上,着力推进工业产业结构升级的步伐,提升新型低碳能源的结构比重,改善能源的生产和消费结构。     

赵靖的中国经济思想史研究历程及学术贡献

赵靖先生是中国经济思想史学科的主要开拓者和奠基人.在半个多世纪的研究生涯中,他拓展了中国经济思想史的研究内容,提出了中国经济思想史特有的研究模式,构建了科学的学科研究体系.赵靖先生的中国经济思想史研究之路是20世纪后半期中国经济思想史学科发展的缩影.     

A state-dependent model of intermediate goods pricing

Recent analyses of transaction-level data sets have generated new stylized facts on price setting and greatly influenced the empirical open- and closed-economy macroeconomics literatures. This work has uncovered marked heterogeneity in price stickiness, demonstrated that even non-zero price changes do not fully “pass through” exchange rate shocks, and offered evidence of synchronization in the timing of price changes. Further, intrafirm prices have been shown to differ from arm's length prices in each of these characteristics. This paper develops a state-dependent model of price setting by strategic intermediate goods producers that anticipate and respond to their competitors' actions. The model, which allows for both arm's length and intrafirm transactions, is able to generate all of these empirical pricing patterns.     

4Ps理论在中小企业品牌营销中的应用分析

随着国际大公司在品牌营销实战方面取得可观成绩,上个世纪中期以后品牌理论研究领域也形成了诸多成果。如今,品牌营销已经成为市场营销的高级竞争手段,具有强大的生命力。对于中小企业来讲,要想打好品牌营销这张牌,必须从企业可掌控的市场营销的微观因素抓起,充分运用传统的4Ps理论(即产品、价格、渠道和促销),严控产品质量,确定合理价格,铺设健康渠道,运用适当的促销方式,才能树立自己的品牌,从而取得成功。     

关于我国保险公司履行社会责任的综合评价——基于利益相关者理论的视角

企业社会责任的理念源于20世纪初的美国。随着上世纪80年代利益相关者理论的提出,学术界对企业社会责任的研究进入新领域。保险业作为特殊的金融服务机构其各方利益相关者的利益冲突亦随着经济社会的发展逐步凸显。本文基于利益相关者理论的视角,对保险公司社会责任进行了界定,并对我国保险公司目前履行社会责任存在的问题进行了研究和分析,在此基础上提出了改进建议。     

Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Integration: Developments and Challenges

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed in 1967 for geopolitical reasons, but faced with the competitive threat from the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Single Market, it embarked in 1992 on the ASEAN Free Trade Area in goods, followed by liberalization of services trade and investment flows. A subsequent competitive threat from the rise of China and India led to the ASEAN Economic Community in 2003, targeted at creating a single market and production base and a competitive region with equitable economic development and integrated with the global economy. The ASEAN Economic Community is not quite a common market as it allows for only freer flows of capital and free flows of skilled labor. ASEAN's economic diversity led to difficulties with implementation and the need to narrow the development gap. ASEAN's dependence on global markets and investors led to the emphasis on open regionalism, support of the World Trade Organization, and free trade agreements with its major trade and investment partners.     

试论五四运动时期马克思主义大众化

五四运动时期马克思主义的广泛传播为中国共产党的成立奠定了坚实的思想和理论基础,为新民主主义革命指明了发展方向。研究五四运动时期马克思主义的传播对于准确认识、把握马克思主义,推动当代马克思主义中国化、大众化、时代化具有重要的意义。从马克思主义大众化的历史源起、历史进程、历史规律的角度来进行研究,是一个不可或缺的视角。以马克思主义大众化的历史源起问题为研究起点,整体审视五四运动时期马克思主义大众化的相关问题,以期对新民主主义革命时期乃至社会主义革命与建设时期、改革开放以来新时期的马克思主义中国化、大众化、时代化有更深刻的理解。