The topography of metropolitan employment: Identifying centers of employment in a polycentric urban area

While it is well recognized that US metropolitan areas are polycentric, there is little consensus as to the appropriate method for identifying concentrations of employment within them. Existing methods suffer from strong assumptions about parametric form, misspecification, or reliance on local knowledge to calibrate model parameters. This paper introduces a new nonparametric method for identifying subcenters. Results indicate that this, more flexible, nonparametric approach yields greater accuracy with regard to both urban and suburban centers compared with other approaches. This approach should provide better data for the numerous topics that depend on the spatial accounting of employment within metropolitan areas.     

Experiments in Environmental Economics and Some Close Relatives

Abstract.  It is not only the great number of papers written on environment economics that make it worth dealing with this special branch of experimental research, but the environmental problem in all its facets seems to serve as a catalyst for identifying some methodological problems of the experimental method. For this reason, we will not only try to give an overview of recent experiments in environmental economics but also add some thoughts on the methodological implications of this work. We identify three direct connecting factors for the experimental method and environmental economics. First, social dilemmas are, in many cases, at the core of environmental problems. Experiments are able to test theoretical hypotheses for individual behavior in such social dilemma situations. The second connecting factor comes from the field of applied experimental work and can be characterized as the testbedding of institutional arrangements for the solution of environmental problems. The last direct application of experimental methods to environmental economics concerns the individual evaluation of environmental resources.     

[火用]经济学思想在供应链管理中的应用

在[火用]经济学分析的基础上,综合考虑环境因素对供应链系统的影响,引入了环境负效应因子的概念,并运用系统科学的广义子系统理论,对供应链系统中的各股[火用]流进行分析,建立了供应链广义子系统[火用]经济学模型.     

第三方物流产生与发展的经济学分析

物流管理是当今经济研究的重要课题之一，而第三方物流则是重要组成部分，本文从经济学的角度分析了第三方物流的产生与发展，并对其现状、作用及其未来的发展提出了自己的看法。     

品牌之死——基于品牌经济学视角的分析

基于品牌经济学视角对品牌之死的研究表明：品牌之死有自然死亡、突然死亡和长寿品牌3种基本类型；品牌之死即为需求之死；品牌的品类、品类度和品牌策略决定了品牌生命；因而延长品牌生命也应从这3方面制定相应的策略。     

农村剩余劳动力转移的理论、现状与政策建议

文章在论述农村剩余劳动力转移相关理论的基础上,阐述了我国农村剩余劳动力转移的现状,并提出相关的政策建议,倡导城镇化及发展劳动密集的第三产业,为农村剩余劳动力转移提供就业岗位。     

新古典经济学假设与组织理论

通过对新古典经济学假设的分析 ,证明组织的充分存在理由 :组织是经济人实现其目标的手段 ,组织理论应该成为新古典经济学假设的前提。首先 ,对新古典经济学假设进行全面分析并找出其不足。其次 ,分析组织存在的意义以及组织理论对新古典经济学假设的支撑和前提作用。     

中国沿海经济驱动型岛屿旅游发展模式分析

从中国沿海岛屿旅游十几年的发展历程来看，各沿海岛屿由于所处地理位置、历史条件、气候条件及资源与文化丰度差异决定其旅游发展水平与发展方式存在明显不同。从旅游发展主要驱动力角度，探讨那些依托其便利的交通或地理位置吸引广大消费者和投资商，从而带动经济发展的类型岛屿的经济发展范式。     

我国自然资源行政许可之缺陷及其原因分析——一种法经济学视角

通过行政许可手段保护自然资源是目前各国通行的做法,它为自然资源开发利用负外部性过程中出现的市场失灵问题提供了重要的解决办法.但是,由于当前我国行政许可法律制度不完善,行政机关通过设定、实施自然资源行政许可创造寻租机会,与被许可人博弈、恶意串通等方式实现政府自身利益最大化,导致了政府配置自然资源的失灵.     

公共经济视角下的国有企业改革分析

国有企业的发展状况表明,单纯从产权方面进行国有企业改革的理论研究和实践是有很大缺陷的,需要从新的视角去探索国有企业的改革思路。之所以从公共经济学的角度去分析国有企业问题,是因为国有企业或多或少具有公共产品的性质,政府对国有企业改革的态度及其行为反映了市场配置资源的能力和国有企业改革所引起的福利改变。