Your Place in Space: Classroom Experiment on Spatial Location Theory

The authors detail an urban economics experiment that is easily run in the classroom. The experiment has a flexible design that allows the instructor to explore how congestion, zoning, public transportation, and taxation levels determine the bid–rent function. Heterogeneous agents in the experiment compete for land use using a simple auction mechanism. Using the data that is collected, a bid–rent function is derived, and the experimental treatment is altered over the course of three sessions to uncover core concepts in urban economics. Moreover, this provides a tangible experience that can be used to help undergraduates relate to urban issues such as the steep rent gradient found around many larger colleges and universities.     

城镇化进程中农地制度问题研究

党的十六大确定了全面建设小康社会的奋斗目标,并把城镇化进程作为全面建设小康社会的重要任务,而城镇化必须以土地作为物质基础,土地在城镇化过程中扮演着极其重要的角色。文章认为在城镇化的过程中,必须根据经济社会的发展,适时通过农地制度的改革创新,使更多的剩余劳动力转向城镇,从而提高土地的利用效率,达到农民富裕的目的。论文以西安市农地制度为例,在分析农地制度和城镇化相互关系的基础上,探讨现行中国农地制度对城镇化积极和消极两方面的影响,指出现行农地制度存在的问题严重制约城镇化的发展,并且针对存在的问题,借鉴美国、日本农地制度演进和城镇化进程的一般关系,通过对几种农地制度的比较分析得到城镇化进程中农地制度的改革目标——永佃制。     

寻租行为与国家自然文化遗产管理

本文主要研究中国自然文化遗产使用权出售中出现的寻租现象。首先对寻租行为的表现及其产生的原因进行了分析,并得出结论:当经营者贿赂政府官员的成本不高于预期获得的全部非生产性超额利润的下限,同时又不低于政府官员所可能受到的风险损失的上限时,经营者的寻租行为才会产生;然后分析了寻租行为产生的危害;文中最后对如何避免寻租行为的产生提出了相关的政策建议。     

Google Earth在成都市功能分区研究中的应用

在历经了20余年的改革发展后,成都市在基础设施建设、产业结构调整和生态环境保护等方面都取得了长足的进步,在政治经济文化发展的同时,城市的用地规模日益扩大,城市功能分区日趋复杂,人地矛盾、功能与形态分区矛盾日渐凸现,城市功能分区已经成为制约城市发展的重要因素之一.为此开展成都市功能分区的研究也愈加重要,利用Google Earth软件提供的在线浏览的高分辨率遥感图像,结合其特有的空间分析和查询功能,探讨成都市的功能区的分区及成因,并对城市功能分区的发展趋势做出预测.     

资源诅咒寻租与冲突传导机制的博弈分析

"资源诅咒"可以通过多种传导机制对经济造成负面影响,而资源尤其是点资源所包含的大量租金诱使人们把很多资金和人力投入到毫无产出的寻租活动中,并且引发激烈的对抗性冲突、破坏和平的生产环境、降低生产效率,便是其中两项重要的传导机制。通过构建博弈模型解释了这两项传导机制的作用原理,并与我国当前资源开发过程中出现的一些问题相结合,提出通过改革资源税税制、控制租金的使用方向来杜绝寻租的源头,以及通过建立中央与地方共赢的利益协调机制来平息纷争的解决方案。以期及时规避资源诅咒,实现租金的有效利用、经济的平稳发展、利益的公平分配和环境的充分保护等多重目标。     

论土地价格的本质及其来源

研究目的：论证土地价格的本质及来源,凝练土地经济学规律。研究方法：归纳与演绎法,文献研究法。研究结果：土地作为自然资源和生产要素,在人类社会出现土地私人占有以后就出现了土地价格;土地价格是在交换过程中形成的,是土地占有或放弃占有的对价;土地价格是土地利用能力的标尺,是土地财产价值量的经济表征;土地的本质属性决定了土地价格变化的特殊性;土地价格最终取决于土地利用能力,土地价格是其预期收益的购买价格。研究结论：土地价格最终来源于土地产出品价格,应遵循这一基本规律认识和解决土地经济问题。     

Unions: Rent Creators or Extractors?*

This paper proposes a model of workplace‐specific unions that integrates two views of what unions do. One view holds that unions mainly engage in rent extraction. Another view holds that unions mainly engage in rent creation by providing agency services that increase workplace productivity. We demonstrate that the choice between the two activities is systematically related to the economic and regulatory environment in which the union operates. Product market competition encourages rent creation, while labor market deregulation encourages rent extraction. Moreover, we provide a rationale for why firms may want to subsidize unions.     

作业成本计算法的优势分析

作业成本计算法正在被越来越多的外国企业采用。本文通过对其核算方法的研究，着重分析了该法在成本核算和成本控制，以及生产经营决策中所体现的优势，并探讨了其在金融、物流等服务业企业中的应用前景，最后提出了确保谊法成功应用所应注意的两点问题。     

Dynamic capabilities,social capital,and rent appropriation: ties that split pies

Who reaps the fruits of a dynamic capability? We argue that while social capital is essential for the acquisition, integration, and release of resources at the core of a dynamic capability, actors can also use social capital for personal gain. Thus, social capital may be a key to understanding both rent generation and rent appropriation. Even when causal ambiguity obscures individual contributions, they may use their social capital to establish credible claims on the rent. Specifically, employees who occupy structural holes, span organizational boundaries, or who are highly central may be most able to appropriate rent because their social capital grants credibility to their claims. Rent that is appropriated in this way may be unobservable in performance measures that fail to distinguish normal compensation from rent. We contribute by identifying the specific role of social capital in a dynamic capability and linking social capital to rent appropriation patterns. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Analysis of Rent Seeking and Benchmark Management in Information Industry Administration Sector

This paper mainly discusses the application of benchmark in the Information Industry management to eliminate rent seeking phenomena. This paper explains the general principle of the benchmarking and the practical strategies in the benchmarking management. By means of game model, the paper offers practical case analysis and puts forward a new type of management in view of the benchmark in the IIA.