Edgeworth's conjecture with infinitely many commodities: commodity differentiation

Summary. Convergence of the cores of finite economies to the set of Walrasian allocations as the number of agents grows has long been taken as one of the basic tests of perfect competition. The present paper examines this test in the most natural model of commodity differentiation: the commodity space is the space of nonnegative measures, endowed with the topology of weak convergence. In Anderson and Zame [12], we gave counterexamples to core convergence in L ¹, a space in which core convergence holds for replica economies and core equivalence holds for continuum economies; in addition, we gave a core convergence theorem under the assumption that traders' utility functions exhibit uniformly vanishing marginal utility at infinity. In this paper, we provide two core convergence results for the commodity differentiation model. A key technical virtue of this space is that relatively large sets (in particular, closed norm-bounded sets) are compact. This permits us to invoke a version of the Shapley-Folkman Theorem for compact subsets of an infinite-dimensional space. We show that, for sufficiently large economies in which endowments come from a norm bounded set, preferences satisfy an equidesirability condition, and either (i) preferences exhibit uniformly bounded marginal rates of substitution or (ii) endowments come from an order-bounded set, core allocations can be approximately decentralized by prices. Received: July 29, 1996; revised version: January 14, 1997     

The role of domestic demand in the economic growth of Malaysia: a cointegration analysis

For the past four decades (1961-2000), the Malaysian economy grew at an impressive average rate of 6.8% per annum. The rapid growth has been attributed, in part, to the tremendous success in the export-oriented industrialization policy. Several empirical studies on export-led growth for Malaysia have, however, led to inconclusive and mixed results. This may be due to the exclusion of domestic demand in the bivariate or multivariate models used in the studies. This study re-examines the role of domestic demand in economic growth in Malaysia. Using a three-variable cointegration analysis, the study shows that there exist short run bilateral causalities among the three variables, which implies that both the export-led growth and domestic demand-generated growth hypotheses are at least valid in the short run. On the other hand, the results are not supportive of the export-led growth hypothesis in the long run. Instead, the highly significant positive impact of domestic expenditure on economic growth implies that use of domestic demand as the catalyst for growth is appropriate.     

FY型粮食装卸机的设计与计算

介绍了ＦＹ 型粮食装卸机的工作特性和具有粮食分级功能的中间分离仓；可自动调节补风量大小的喂料器；可伸缩、弯转的组合风管等主要部件的结构、特点及主要性能参数的计算方法。     

完善我国地方税制的思考

完善地方税制是我国分税制改革的内在要求。1994年我国分税制改革后建立的地方税制还存在着一些不完善之处。本文提出了完善地方税制的设想。     

Options and sunspots in a simple monetary economy

Summary. We study sunspot immunity in a dynamic monetary economy in which consumers are allowed to trade put and call option contracts on the general price level. We define the concept of strong sunspot immunity to characterize economies that have no sunspot equilibria regardless of the number of extrinsic states and their probabilities of occurrence. We show that a small number of option contracts can make an economy strongly sunspot immune. In addition, we demonstrate how asset re-trading opportunities, and the associated capital gains and losses, reduce the number of options needed for this result to obtain. Received: August 13, 1996; revised version: January 20, 1997     

利用EVA-ABC模型评价供应链的运作绩效

随着经济全球化,出现了新的市场竞争主体--供应链.供应链的运作绩效评价是一个复杂而困难的任务,不仅要协调各企业内部各部门,也要平衡供应链上各企业的经营行为.利用EVA-ABC模型可以评价跨企业和整个供应链的绩效,并能最优化和协调整个供应链的作业绩效.     

Ownership concentration and corporate governance practices: substitution or expropriation effects?

The objective of this study is to analyze the relation between ownership concentration and corporate governance practices of a group of Canadian companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. We rely on the corporate governance index developed by the Report on Business (ROB) in 2002. Our empirical results are consistent with the expropriation effect argument that predicts a negative relation between deviation from the one share‐one vote rule and corporate governance best practices. In this context, the dominant shareholder has incentives to maintain weak internal controls in order to facilitate expropriation. In addition, consistent with prior research, our results give partial support to the substitution effect argument by showing a negative impact of ownership concentration on the board composition subindex. Copyright © 2007 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

虚拟企业剩余生产能力管理问题探讨

资源的有效利用不但是衡量实体企业业绩的一项重要内容,更是虚拟企业有效运行的重要标志,而剩余生产能力的控制与管理则是确保资源得以有效利用的手段。基于以前的研究,本文将引用CAM-I生产能力模型,探讨虚拟企业剩余生产能力管理中所涉及的相关问题。     

1999年至2010年呼伦贝尔市重要湿地遥感动态变化研究

以1999年、2002年和2010年3期TM/ETM影像为数据源,综合应用RS与GIS技术,以呼伦贝尔市西南六县为重点研究区,对其湿地进行专题信息提取和分类,了解呼伦贝尔湿地近10多年来的动态变化。结果表明：近11年来,研究区湿地面积萎缩严重,总面积减少3 522.07 km2,变化率为36.5%。其中新巴尔虎右旗和陈巴尔虎旗湿地面积减少最多,变化主要包括湿地向非湿地的转变和草甸沼泽湿地向草本沼泽湿地的转变。初步反映了呼伦贝尔盟湿地的退化现状,为进一步加强湿地保护与生态恢复提供了依据。     

Firm Organization,Technology And Performance: An Empirical Study ∗

The purpose of the study is to characterize different styles of work organization in French firms and their current changes and to link them to the use of specific technologies and to firms performance. The data which are used arc of two kinds: a labor force survey (1 470 blue collar) and a business survey (7 089 firms). We show that two main variables create differences among firms' organization devices: the intensity of communication within the workshop and the level of autonomy of workers (facing technological and hierarchical constraints). The use of advanced technologies and the skill of the labor force are positively linked to both organizational variables. Therefore. ‘Communicating organization’ and organizational innovation seem to aim at creating conditions for individual and collective learning on new technologies. They also enhance the ability of the firm to adapt to changing market conditions through technological innovation and inventory reduction, These views are supported by econometric estimation.