Measuring transit oriented development: a spatial multi criteria assessment approach for the City Region Arnhem and Nijmegen

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a planning approach that can stimulate sustainable development by encouraging better land use and transport integration. Arnhem Nijmegen City Region, a regional planning body, in the Netherlands, aims to promote sustainable development in their region and control the current pattern of increased use of cars vis-à-vis transit for longer commutes. Planning for TOD can help achieve this aim. It is believed that measuring the existing levels of TOD is a prerequisite for TOD planning and that it can be done using a TOD Index proposed in this research. A TOD Index measures multiple spatial indicators and aggregates them under the SMCA framework to arrive at a comprehensive value depicting the existing levels of TOD at a location or an area. Using this TOD Index, TOD levels were measured over the entire City Region covering approx. 1000 km². High levels of TOD imply that the urban development’s characteristics, at that location, are ripe for use of transit and these high levels, as expected, were found in the urban areas of Arnhem and Nijmegen. From the results of TOD Index measurement, using hot-spot analysis, those locations were identified that have high TOD levels but poor transit connectivity. These locations are accordingly recommended for better transit connectivity. As a part of our future work, it is intended to use the TOD Index to elevate TOD levels around existing transit nodes.     

Transforming competitiveness into economic benefits: Does tourism stimulate economic growth in more competitive destinations?

This research note investigates the impact of a destination's competitiveness upon tourism's contribution to economic growth using a cross-section with 131 countries. Destination competitiveness is measured with the World Economic Forum's Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, while tourism's contribution to economic growth is measured with the growth decomposition methodology. Results reveal that destination competitiveness has no statistically significant impact on tourism's contribution to economic growth. Tourism policy implications and directions for future research are also discussed.     

我国经济发展指标体系的构建与应用研究——基于经济发展的数量与质量角度

经济增长与经济发展是经济学中的两个重要概念,本文把单纯的经济增长划归为经济发展的数量方面,将经济发展分为数量与质量两个方面,并基于这个划分角度构建了经济发展指标体系,提供了构建经济指标体系的一个新视角。同时,本文利用该经济发展指标体系对我国1978～2009年的宏观经济数据进行实证研究,刻画了我国经济发展全貌的变动趋势,为经济发展方面的研究提供了一个全局地图。     

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。     

基于衍生型环境BSC的绩效评价指标体系设计——以石化企业为例

衍生型环境BSC的构建使环境管理对经济成功贡献之间所暗存的"因果关系"更明晰化、可视化,为促进企业成功实施环保战略提供了管理工具和方法。在国内外相关文献的理论指导下,探讨了衍生型环境BSC的绩效评价指标体系的构建路径和基本架构。把环保战略转化为因果关系耦合的目标和指标,是构建衍生型环境BSC绩效评价指标体系的重要依据。衍生型环境BSC需要从四个维度——财务、客户、内部流程和学习与成长——挖掘与环境相关的内容。结合石化企业的行业背景和企业资料进行了案例分析,为其构建衍生型环境BSC提供一种思路和框架。     

2009年新加坡科技发展的政策调整与措施

新加坡面对金融危机和甲型流感（H1N1）的袭扰，及时调整应对政策和措施，本文介绍并探讨了新加坡加大科技投入，加强科技人才和企业人才的培养，利用高科技手段及时研制出防治甲流的防护用品、快速检测设备等举措，以上政策和措施对我国科技发展具有借鉴意义。     

从2000年基金年报信息追溯基金研究中心的三个问题

本文从三个方面对2000年基金年报信息进行了剖析。第一，从多角度对33只证券投资基金进行分类的结果表明，最能体现基金业绩与投资风格差异度的分类方法不是基金的投资目标而是基金管理公司。基金管理公司内部的资源共享是造成这一现象的原因。第二，指数型基金在2000年的表现尚不尽人意，投资理念亦不清晰。第三，保险公司选择基金的标准相当理性，注重基金的分红市价比、夏普指数、资产净值收益率几项指标，其选择的正确性亦得到2000年基金业绩的证实。     

论信息化对我国经济增长的影响

信息化是未来社会发展的必然方向，本文根据信息化指数模型对我国的信息化发展水平进行了测度，并在此基础上估计了信息化对我国经济增长的贡献率，发现信息已构成我国生产函数中的一个重要要素。     

Distributions slanted to the right

We solve Problem 234 in Statistica Neerlandica by introducing the concept of slantedness. Distributions with a decreasing Lebesgue density are slanted to the right. This is no longer true for distributions on a lattice with decreasing density. Both kinds of distributions have positive central odd moments.