The non-linear impact of oil price on the oil demand

ABSTRACT

A panel smooth transition regression model was adopted to analyse the non-linear impact of oil prices on oil demand. Data for 42 countries was obtained from the International Energy Agency for the time period spanning from January 1990 to June 2017. The results indicate that a threshold value does exist. Furthermore, when the oil price was lower than this threshold value, a positive relationship between oil price and oil demand was observed. When the price of oil was higher than the threshold value, however, a negative relationship between price and demand was found.     

Which institutional investors matter for firm survival and performance?

Using data that spans three decades, we assess the diverse roles of institutional investors in impacting survival and performance of chronically underperforming firms and contrast the results for consistently overperforming firms. We find material differences in investor roles and investment returns between these samples. Differentiating among institutional types, controlling for prior performance and attrition bias provides insights unattainable by examining aggregated holdings. For underperformers, results are negative for activist pension funds and long-term institutions, positive for activist hedge funds and short-term institutions, and mixed for institutional blockholders.     

新企业所得税法的立法精神制度创新和实施问题

《中华人民共和国企业所得税法》(以下简称“新企业所得税法”)按照科学发展观和建立现代法人税制的要求,以统一法律、公平税负、完善税制、促进发展为立法精神和指导思想,在纳税主体制度、税率制度、税基制度、税收优惠制度、反避税制度、征收管理制度等方面进行了多项制度创新。其颁布实施必将为各类企业的发展提供统一、公平、规范的税收法治环境,促进我国市场经济体制走向成熟,推动中国经济又好又快发展。     

公共服务均等化的路径选择与制度安排

社会公平是社会主义和谐社会的本质要求,基本公共服务均等化则是社会公平的核心内容,在市场经济条件下,财富差距和收入差距是不能完全拉平的,否则就会失去效率,只有消费差距可以实现均等化。我国政府应该把社会公平建设的着力点放在基本公共服务均等化上。我国实现基本公共服务均等化要选择先普及后调整,先阶层均等化后社会均等化,先绝对必需的公共服务均等化后次必需的公共服务均等化的实现路径。推进公共服务均等化需要有相应的制度安排。     

社会主义和谐社会经济制度基础的研究视域

社会主义和谐社会的经济制度基础研究是一门着眼于改革开放以来经济领域中思想解放的宏观历史进程,以深入研究经济变革中的一般经济制度、经济体制、基本经济制度以及经济发展观为理论重点,以彰显社会主义和谐社会的经济制度创新优势和实现人的全面而自由发展为实践目标的学问。     

Annual Meeting of the Catholic Economic Association

This paper attempts to demonstrate that Keynes's practical writings on the crisis in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry in the 1920s were consistent with the 1930s theoretical conceptualisation of user costs in the General Theory. It is suggested that the key (common) link between these analyses is Keynes's concern with how uncertainty is distributed, in specific historical circumstances, between institutions at the levels of the firm, industry, the industry-financial institution interface, and the local and global economies. It is this concern which still has important, if not more, research and policy relevance today.     

Conceptual niche management of grassroots innovation for sustainability: The case of body disposal practices in the UK

The grassroots has recently been identified as an alternative site for the development of innovations that may contribute to shifts towards more sustainable systems of consumption and production. While the characteristics of these innovations have been elaborated, it remains unclear how these alternative ideas and practices can be purposively supported to populate incumbent systems. This is especially so in light of the difficulty the grassroots face in connecting forcefully with the mainstream.This article will address this issue by outlining an adaptation of conceptual niche management - an approach that focuses on the embedding of guiding principles used to fulfill basic societal needs - that is sensitive to grassroots innovation. The framework will be applied to the current UK body disposal system to illustrate how such transformative sustainability ideas may be capitalised on.     

转轨阶段城乡居民收入差距的演变及社会效应

我国经济体制转型期间的城乡居民收入差距呈缩小—扩大—缩小—扩大的趋势,这在一定程度上对农村居民收入的增长和对农村消费市场、人力资本投资产生负面影响,同时也对社会的稳定、经济的可持续发展以及建设和谐社会产生负面效应。