Regulation and taxation: A complementarity

I show how quantity regulation can lower elasticities and thereby increase optimal tax rates. Such regulation imposes regulatory incentives for particular choice quantities. Their strength varies between zero (laissez faire) and infinite (command economy). In the latter case, regulation effectively eliminates any intensive behavioral responses to taxes; a previously distortionary tax becomes a lump sum. For intermediate regulation (where some deviation is feasible), intensive behavioral responses are still weaker than under zero regulation, and so quantity regulation reduces elasticities, thereby facilitating subsequent taxation. I apply this mechanism to labor supply and present correlational evidence for this complementarity: hours worked in high-regulation countries are compressed, and these countries tax labor at higher rates.     

中部崛起战略的重点突破方向

文章回顾了中部崛起战略提出以来中部省份取得的发展成绩,也指出其依然未摆脱东部地区粗放型增长的老路,未能充分发挥比较优势,实现真正意义上的全面协调持续的发展,并针对性地提出了中部崛起战略中应该重点关注三大突破方向:立足国内市场,加快发展内循环经济,转变经济发展方向;建设资源节约型和环境友好型社会,大力发展低碳经济,转变经济发展方式;营造良好的区域发展文化,平和社会发展心态,转变传统社会价值观念。     

媒介信息融合与产业规制制度改革

本文基于行动者—网络理论从技术变化、媒介信息融合导致产业利益冲突的这一视角出发,分析由国家、产业管理部门、产业的企事业单位以及社会公众围绕媒介信息技术的变化所构成的网络关系,在此基础上认为在国家、产业管理部门、产业的企事业单位以及社会公众与媒介信息技术的互动过程中有效实现各方利益的有机整合是实现"三网融合"的充分必要条件,而对广播电视和电信产业进行产业规制制度改革是有机整合各方利益的关键所在。     

河北沿海承接北京世界城市功能拓展的空间发展模式——以秦皇岛市为例

基于首都城市与港口城市空间耦合形成世界城市的国际发展事实,探讨河北沿海地区秦皇岛市承接首都北京建设世界城市功能拓展的战略契合点,计算秦皇岛市域空间聚集—扩散程度,剖析秦皇岛市空间发展的特征和趋势。结果表明:城市组团的多中心网络化空间发展模式是秦皇岛以出海通道和滨海客厅为战略契合点,全力延伸北京建设世界城市功能拓展和区域溢出的最佳模式。为此,秦皇岛应以"两轴、两翼、四级"贯穿"人字轴"城市组团总体布局,促进城市空间多中心网络化发展;以国家"第二会客厅"、国际滨海旅游港和首都战略性新兴产业聚集区打造北京世界城市功能区域溢出的枢纽—网络化承接平台。     

我国政府间转移支付制度有效性分析

本文拟通过建立制度有效性的研究框架,对我国政府间转移支付体系从目标系统、制度装置、制度环境、制度目标实现程度等几个方面进行分析和检验,指出影响我国政府间转移支付制度得到有效发挥的主要因素:制度装置与目标体系不相适应、相关制度安排不具备、制度变迁主体的不合作博弈等,进而提出有助于提高这一制度有效性的制度安排。     

无形资产信息不对称问题研究

无形资产的无形特征,使得无形资产市场中的信息不对称问题更加严重,制约了无形资产市场的发展。本文对无形资产信息不对称问题的研究文献进行了综述,对无形资产信息不对称的现象、后果及根源进行了分析,并总结了改进无形资产计量和信息披露的相关研究成果,最后提出改善无形资产信息不对称问题进一步研究的方向。     

Did support for economic and political reforms increase during the post‐communist transition,and if so,why?

We study the dynamics of individual support for changes in the economic and political system, using a unique dataset for 12 transition economies over the period 1991–2004. We document that support for transition was initially lower in the CIS countries and that there has been a converging trend in the support for reforms between the CIS and the Baltic and Central and Eastern European countries. We suggest several explanations for the initial divergence and the post‐98 convergence in support for transition between these three groups of countries, and show that economic growth, declining income inequality and improving quality of governance have contributed to increase the support for transition. In addition, we find that increased support for the market economy and democracy in the CIS is accompanied by a larger increase in trust towards the political institutions. Our results also confirm the implications of Aghion et al. ( 2010 )'s model of a negative correlation between trust and the demand for government regulation.