Regularities in the vertical arrangement of land uses in Sydney's central area

Summary

Previous studies of the vertical arrangement of land uses within the central areas of cities have been few, incomplete and employed crude methods of analysis. The present study employs 24 categories of land uses and analyses their distribution over 50 floor levels in Sydney's central district. To model the data, the gamma distribution is employed, being a flexible curve type. With only trifling exceptions, this distribution represents the data remarkably well. The two parameters of the fitted curves are interpreted as: (a) a measure of the propensity of a use to be accommodated over a wide range of floor levels, and (b) as a measure of resistance to height. The values of the parameters are used to define, using a clustering algorithm, groups of uses having members characterized by the most similar floor level arrangement. The results are of major importance for three reasons: First, the degree of regularity in the way establishments seek locations in the height dimension has not been discovered before. Second, the gamma‐distribution offers utility in modelling vertical location and should be useful in testing aspects of different town planning policies on plot ratios. Third, draconian town planning restrictions imposed on height controls may introduce locational inefficiencies hitherto unsuspected.     

The Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis and Air Pollution in Finland

Abstract

The historiography of mercantilism has been described as a series of disconnected still pictures which reflect the shifting viewpoints of economic thought.¹ However, historians have favoured different concepts of mercantilism not only in response to the shifts of economic science but also because they have held, explicitly or implicitly, different opinions on the problem of how economic ideas are formed and of the role they have played in historical development. The following reexamination of some of those ‘stills’ concentrate on such differences.²     

技术进入时机的影响因素及策略分析

早期选择新技术可以使企业获得更高的收益和竞争优势,但同时也使企业面临巨大的风险。文章阐明了技术进入时机对企业的重要意义,深入研究了企业技术进入的类型及技术进入时机的影响因素,指出外部因素影响技术应用、内部因素决定进入时机,并在此基础上提出了技术进入时机决策过程及策略。     

新疆人口城市化问题研究

运用人口普查资料及其它人口统计数据 ,分析新疆城镇人口过去 50年的变化 ,探究新疆人口城镇化过程的特征和成因 ,并运用数学模型预测未来新疆城镇人口及人口城镇化水平。提出新疆城镇体系发展战略构想及对策     

区域发展战略对能源消耗的影响研究——新结构经济学视角

基于新结构经济学理论,对区域发展战略与能源消耗的关系进行理论和实证分析。理论分析发现,违背比较优势的区域发展战略使得人均能源消耗增大。进一步地,利用我国1997-2019年的省级面板数据进行实证检验,在选取老工业基地数量作为区域发展战略的工具变量等内生性处理和稳健性检验后,实证结果支持上述理论假说。异质性分析发现,处于不同发展阶段的地区,区域发展战略对能源消耗的影响不同。进一步讨论发现,违背比较优势的区域发展战略还会导致能源库兹涅茨曲线的第二个拐点延后,峰值也将变大,阻碍能源库兹涅茨曲线的收敛。为实现人与自然和谐共生的“中国式现代化”,建议政府采用符合比较优势的的地区发展战略,并大力支持创新和相关人才的培训以及继续教育工作。     

基于“学习曲线”效应的长期质量成本模型

企业质量管理中存在“学习曲线”效应。在传统质量成本模型中引入累积产量和学习率 ,形成了长期质量成本模型。该模型长期质量成本随累积产量的增加而下降 ,而不同时期的最适宜质量水平随累积产量的增加而提高并趋近于零缺陷水平。该模型的结果与六西格玛管理实践一致     

技术生命周期视域下领域介入方向与时机研究——以图像处理技术领域为例

从专利文献数据出发,以Logistic曲线模型为研究方法,实证分析图像处理领域的整体技术发展及分支技术生命周期进程。研究发现,图像分割、图像识别技术方向及生物识别应用领域处于成长期,图像增强、图像去噪、图像重建、图像融合技术方向处于技术成熟期,而图像复原、图像编码技术及通信、医疗、交通、工业及遥感应用领域已经进入技术饱和期。结合图像处理领域分支技术方向及技术生命周期进展,可为相关创新主体介入领域的方向及时机提供参考信息。     

A Sticky Information Phillips Curve for South Africa

Mankiw and Reis propose the Sticky Information Phillips Curve (SIPC) as an alternative to the standard New Keynesian Phillips Curve to address empirical shortcomings in the latter. A SIPC for South Africa is estimated, and we find estimates of information updating probability between 0.69 and 0.81, somewhat higher than suggested by methods using micro‐evidence. Because the estimation requires data on expectations of current period inflation and output gap conditional on sequences of earlier period information sets, we provide a detailed analysis of the impact on our estimates of alternative proxies available in South Africa.     

The Indonesian macroeconomy and the yield curve: A dynamic latent factor approach

We develop a fine representation of the term structure of interest rates in Indonesia and create a link between the yield curve and macroeconomic fundamentals. We construct a state-space representation of the yield curve as a function of three time-varying parameters: level, slope, and curvature factors. The model is then expanded to include three macroeconomic variables: real activity, inflation, and interest rates. We find that the dynamic latent factor model provides a very good fit to characterise the Indonesian yield curve in terms of the statistical properties for each maturity, and in terms of the properties of three latent yield-curve factors. With regards to the relationship to the macroeconomy, we find that there is a large amount of idiosyncratic variation in the yield curve movements. Therefore, macroeconomic variables can only explain small dynamics in the yield curve.     

Can tourism be a key sector in reducing income inequality? An empirical investigation for Turkey

The aim of the study is to investigate the nexus between tourism and income inequality by employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) test cover the period 1974–2015 in Turkey. Findings indicated that the variables are cointegrated and an increase in tourism has a positive effect on income inequality, while economic growth and trade openness have a negative effect both in the long-run and short-run. Results also denote that tourism will decrease income inequality with the expansion of tourism activities and the spread of tourism throughout society. In other words, the tourism-related Kuznets Curve hypothesis is valid for Turkey.