FDI facilitated by agglomeration economies: evidence from manufacturing and services joint ventures in China

The open door policy of China’s economic reform since the 1980s has attracted heavy foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into China and especially to Guangdong (particularly the Pearl River Delta region, PRD) and induced significant economic growth during the past two decades. While there exist various classical theories of FDI in attempting to identify the determinants of FDI inflow and to explain the behavior of FDI flows, limited attention has been given from the perspective of agglomeration effects generated by a core-periphery (CP) relation.This paper intends to study the impacts of agglomerations on FDI inflows in the context of Krugman’s CP relation (1991) by investigating (1) the formation of a CP relation via gravity model analysis; (2) whether different types of industry FDI flows will respond differently in the CP-system, given agglomeration effects; and (3) whether FDI origin and firm scale matter in affecting FDI flows.A database consisting of a population frame of 37,742 firm-level manufacturing and services joint ventures investing in Guangdong in 1998 was used. Empirical results show that the agglomerations of the CP relation have affected FDI flow patterns. While both manufacturing and services FDI and sources of investment responded differently to the impacts, smaller firms were found more responsive to the CP-agglomeration settings regardless of FDI by industry type and by source. The significance and implications of the CP-system to further facilitate FDI in the region are discussed.     

日本转移定价税制研究

转移价格是指跨国关联企业之间进行交易时使用的价格。70年代以后，随着日本经济实力的增强，日本企业经营国际化迅猛发展，出现了许多利用国际关联企业转移所得而避税的情况，而日本有关跨国公司转移定价的税制的实施，使这一避税现象得到了了的避免。随着我国加入WTO后外资的更多进入，加强转移定价的管理势在民行，学习发达国家的先进做法，将有助于我们在这方面少走弯路。     

从敦煌本《百行章》看唐初的法制思想

唐代的法制思想，主要有两大特征，即仁刑恤典和厉行法制。对此，学者们多从正史的角度加以探讨和分析。而从敦煌所出唐代蒙书《百行章》所述内容同样清楚地显示了唐初的法制思想的以上特点。这一研究可以起到补充正史的作用。     

On Sraffa's Standard commodity: is its price invariant with respect to changes in income distribution?

In his 1960 book, Sraffa suggested using a composite commodity,which he called the ‘Standard commodity’, to solveRicardo's search for an invariable measure of value, i.e., astandard capable of isolating the price movements of any othercommodity induced by changes in income distribution. The absencein Sraffa's book of an explicit proof of the invariance propertyof this standard gave rise to many misunderstandings about itsmeaning and its role as an invariable measure of value. In orderto clear up these questions, Bellino (On Sraffa's Standard commodity,Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 28, 121–32, 2004)has proposed a ‘proper’ definition of an ‘invariablemeasure of value’, showing that Sraffa's Standard commoditydoes fulfil the requirements of this definition. He claims thatthe fulfilment of this property (but not the constancy of its‘nominal’ price) qualifies the Standard commodityas an invariable measure of value. In this paper, a proof ofthe invariance of the price of the Standard commodity with respectto changes in income distribution is given, and the equivalenceof this property with Bellino's definition of invariance isshown.     

元代安徽地区的土地开发与利用

元代安徽地区的官田和民田多得到了有效开发与利用。官田主要用于充当职田、屯田、赐田、草场、牧地等,占有主体为封建国家。在官田中,屯田最发达,分布广,延续时间长,在全国具有重要地位。民田占有主体为官僚地主、一般富户地主、宗族地主、自耕农、民办学校、寺院等,呈现多元化特征。在民田中,族田、学田较发达,地域特色明显。在官、民田中,租佃制经营方式十分流行,地租形态以实物地租为主,也存在货币地租,但不普遍。     

债权人积极作用与被动地位的悖论——论中国破产制度的根本缺陷及其改革

企业融资和治理理论认为,债权人对于股东和职工来说是具有积极作用的,具体体现在相机治理机制与破产程序和制度方面。但在我国的现实中,债权人却完全处于被动无权的地位。这种理论与现实的矛盾正是导致破产逃债现象十分严重的根本原因。因而,我国破产制度完善的关键在于发挥债权人的积极作用,尤其是像商业银行和金融资产管理公司等专业债权人。     

OpenGL矿山虚拟设计及其应用

设计了系统的基本思路,在Visual Studio 2008数据库的基础上,利用OpenGL对矿山巷道,硐室设计等进行三维可视化虚拟,并通过数学模型,对矿井设计进行分析与纠错处理,用C#实现系统的功能。     

大学生与社会主义核心价值体系的调查与思考

引领高校大学生树立正确的人生价值观一直以来都是我国高校教育的关注重点,党十六届六中全会系统地提出了社会主义核心价值体系,这为高校思想政治教育提供了新的理论支撑点,因而如何有效引领大学生践行社会主义核心价值体系成了当前高校教育的一个关键点。本文通过问卷调查采集的数据,分析了当前大学生践行社会主义核心价值体系的现实状况,并进一步透析了这些现象的原因,尝试构想引领大学生践行社会主义核心价值体系的蓝图。     

我国应急信息系统及其管理架构

当前,突发事件应对已成为各级政府无法回避的重大课题。作为应急管理的稳压器、协调器和控制器,应急信息的有效传播和应用对突发事件的科学应对至关重要,而对我国应急信息系统及其管理架构尤其值得深入研究。     

我国当前运动心理咨询中存在的问题探析

从上个世纪八十年代开始,我国开始关注运动员的心理状态,从1986年的我国第六届全运会第一次设立心理咨询机构,到2007年我国第一批运动心理咨询专家获得认证。我国运动心理咨询领域在这二十几年中得到了一定的发展。但是,相较于国外成熟完善的运动心理咨询体系,我国现有的运动心理咨询还存在一些不足。本文作者通过分析我国目前运动心理咨询中存在的问题,旨在促进我国运动心理咨询的发展,进而更好地提高我国运动员的心理素质,为运动员们在世界性范围内的体育比赛中取得优异成绩做好充足准备。