The political economy of industrialisation

This paper analyses how incentives under different sets of political institutions map into policies that promote industrialisation. I set out an endogenous growth model with non-overlapping generations, where agents are heterogeneous with respect to wealth, skills and political power. The skills of the political elite play a crucial role for industrialisation to occur. It is shown that a flat wealth distribution and a skilled political elite enhance development the most in elitist regimes, while democracies perform as well as elitist regimes in terms of industrialisation. The theoretical results regarding elitist regimes are in line with evidence on the Industrial Revolution.     

集群中小企业发展的关键

在激烈的市场竞争中，单个中小企业在经营中困难重重。集群这种企业间组织新形式，可以发挥我国众多中小企业的优势，在不牺牲经营柔性的前提下，实现规模经济，降低经营成本。     

西部地区传统产业集群整合途径研究——以成都市家具产业集群为例

产业集群对西部地区缩小区域差距,进行技术创新,提高区域竞争力等方面具有重要意义。本文通过对产业集群理论的基本论述,以成都市家具产业集群为例,寻求西部地区传统产业集群整合途径。     

成都中小企业集群融资体系的构建

成都中小企业已成为推动成都经济发展的主要动力,成为全市国民经济和社会发展的重要力量.然而,融资难这一矛盾在中小企业发展过程中日益突出,而中小企业集群融资正是解决这一问题的有效途径之一.本文以成都市中小企业融资难为例,从中小企业集群的角度出发,探讨中小企业融资体系的创新.     

Why England? Demographic factors, structural change and physical capital accumulation during the Industrial Revolution

Why did England industrialize first? And why was Europe ahead of the rest of the world? Unified growth theory in the tradition of Galor and Weil (2000, American Economic Review, 89, 806–828) and Galor and Moav (2002, Quartely Journal of Economics, 177(4), 1133–1191) captures the key features of the transition from stagnation to growth over time. Yet we know remarkably little about why industrialization occurred much earlier in some parts of the world than in others. To answer this question, we present a probabilistic two-sector model where the initial escape from Malthusian constraints depends on the demographic regime, capital deepening and the use of more differentiated capital equipment. Weather-induced shocks to agricultural productivity cause changes in prices and quantities, and affect wages. In a standard model with capital externalities, these fluctuations interact with the demographic regime and affect the speed of growth. Our model is calibrated to match the main characteristics of the English economy in 1700 and the observed transition until 1850. We capture one of the key features of the British Industrial Revolution emphasized by economic historians — slow growth of output and productivity. Fertility limitation is responsible for higher per capita incomes, and these in turn increase industrialization probabilities. The paper also explores the availability of nutrition for poorer segments of society. We examine the influence of redistributive institutions such as the Old Poor Law, and find they were not decisive in fostering industrialization. Simulations using parameter values for other countries show that Britain’s early escape was only partly due to chance. France could have moved out of agriculture and into manufacturing faster than Britain, but the probability was less than 25%. Contrary to recent claims in the literature, 18th century China had only a minimal chance to escape from Malthusian constraints.     

集群式供应链的竞争力及培育分析

集群式供应链是产业集群和供应链之间的藕合组织形式。本文对集群式供应链这种新型的组织形式和集群式供应链的概念进行了阐述,并对其竞争力及其培育进行分析,为集群式供应链这种新型组织方式的构建研究奠定了基础。     

北京市各区县劳动力产业分布比较优势统计分析

北京市各区县劳动力总量分布的产业差别是明显的,其分布是有规律可循的.因此,对于北京市各区县功能区的划分可以站在劳动力产业分布比较优势的角度,采用统计分析的方法,深入分析北京市已经形成的劳动力产业分布规律,从而为城市功能区的划分提供劳动力布局的依据.     

昌黎缝纫机零配件产业集群发展策略研究

产业集群作为一种新兴的经济发展模式和区域经济的基础特征,已经成为区域竞争优势的重要支点。本文介绍了昌黎缝纫机零配件产业集群的基本情况,指出了其发展过程中的一些问题,就此提出了发展策略。     

产业集群的区域创新网络系统分析

区域创新是一个区域获得可持续发展的根本动力,区域创新能力正日益成为区域经济获取国际竞争优势的决定性因素和区域经济具备竞争优势的重要标志。作为区域经济重要形态的产业集群,以其显著的网络特性成为区域创新系统的理想处所,而构建区域创新系统已经成为各区域实现快速发展的战略选择。本文从产业集群出发,研究创新网络系统的构成及其运行机制,并提出了构建区域创新网络系统的几点思路。     

工业园区绿色招商指标评价体系研究

本文分析了目前国内招商引资中出现的问题，提出了综合考虑投资环境和扫商要求的工业园区绿色招商及其评价指标体系，给出了相应的评价方法、同时对苏州工业围区的绿色招商水平作了具体评价。