深圳与上海金融机构的竞争力分析

通过比较,上海的核心优势是金融市场的容量,而深圳的核心优势是拥有有竞争力、本土成长起来的一批金融机构(包括银行、保险、证券、基金)。还发现:良好的股权结构和企业领袖魅力对深圳的银行和保险业影响很大,而证券业和基金业的业绩更多取决于管理层的风格。以后深圳应携手香港,在保持机构竞争力的同时,扩大金融市场的容量和辐射影响力。     

几种政党政治现代化模式的比较分析

政党政治现代化,是政党政治国家共同的政治价值诉求,由于各国所处的社会发展阶段不同,基本经济制度和经济发展水平不同,阶级、利益阶层和利益集团之间的关系和占主导地位的价值观、意识形态以及民族历史和文化传统各有不同,因而,各国政党政治现代化的具体模式也就不尽相同.下面就几种典型的政党政治现代化模式作以比较分析.     

完善金融机构代客理财业务立法与监管的思考

尽管改革开放以来我国的金融市场迅速发展,相关的立法也不断完善,金融机构代客理财业务也从无到有日益发展。但是不可忽视的是,由于本身发展时间较短,理论研究不成熟,立法规格比较简单粗陋,金融机构代客理财业务的纠纷不断涌现。本文对于完善金融机构代客理财业务立法与监管提出了一些粗浅看法,希望可以对金融机构代客理财业务立法与监管的规范发展提供帮助。     

Human behaviour in development economics

The focus of the paper is human behaviour in long-run change as examplified in the writings of the ‘pioneer’ development economists, Lewis, Hirschman and Myrdal. Lewis is credited with recognizing the importance of human behaviour, though unable to resolve the limitations of neoclassical thinking. Hirschman and Myrdal, characterized as holistic and evolutionary in approach, are argued to be more successful in integrating human behaviour into theories of long-run change.     

The Economist Watcher: Economic Contributions of David Colander

ABSTRACT

This article gives an appraisal of the work of David Colander. After a brief biographical summary, we look at his work in methodology and the role that institutions and ‘vision’ play in his economic analysis. A crucial part of his work in this area is viewing not only the economy but also the economic profession as an adaptive complex system. This leads us to his major contributions to macroeconomics and economic education. We conclude with an overall assessment of his contributions to economics.     

Lombard Enlightenment and Classical Political Economy

Abstract

This paper discusses the formative steps of ‘Classical’ Political Economy under the joint influence of the Italian and Scottish Enlightenment. Pietro Verri is a leading figure of the Italian Enlightenment and he belongs to the Lombard branch of the Italian School of Political Economy (sometimes named ‘School of Milan’) during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Schumpeter's treatment of the ‘School of Milan’ describes Pietro Verri as ‘the most important pre-Smithian authority on Cheapness-and-Plenty’. A careful canvass of the texts substantiates Schumpeter's suggestion. Verri stands out as a key figure in the transition from Physiocracy to the Smithian system.     

Trade policy-making in a model of legislative bargaining

In democracies, trade policy is the result of interactions among many agents with different agendas. In accordance with this observation, we construct a dynamic model of legislative trade policy-making in the realm of distributive politics. An economy consists of different sectors, each of which is concentrated in one or more electoral districts. Each district is represented by a legislator in the Congress. Legislative process is modeled as a multilateral sequential bargaining game à la Baron and Ferejohn (1989). Some surprising results emerge: bargaining can be welfare-worsening for all participants; legislators may vote for bills that make their constituents worse off; identical industries will receive very different levels of tariff. The results pose a challenge to empirical work, since equilibrium trade policy is a function not only of economic fundamentals but also of political variables at the time of congressional negotiations — some of them random realizations of mixed bargaining strategies.     

产学研合作对高校应用型外语人才培养的启示

应用型外语人才培养要以服务于地方经济与社会发展为目标,这也是应用型地方本科院校人才培养的思路。现有应用型外语人才培养存在诸多问题,如培养目标不明晰、课程设置不科学、教学方法滞后、师资力量跟不上等。而要改变这种现状,就必须优化现行的人才培养目标、课程教学体系、教学方法与手段、高校行政管理机制等,以真正培养高质量的应用型外语人才。     

词与物： 地名的不可商标性反思

我国《商标法》中“地名不得作为商标”条款乃绝对禁用条款,属于效力性禁止性规范。立法者之所以如此规定,是将地名视为政治符号而神圣化了,而非出于其缺乏显著性或具有欺骗性之考量。在《商标法》已经修订完善相关制度体系的前提下,该条款已经变得不合时宜,理应删除,而无法通过司法及行政机关的解释来作变通性的限缩适用。因为这种解释不仅背离了法律解释方法的顺位规则,未认清《商标法》第10条与第11条的逻辑关系,更降低了法律的安定性和可预期性,难以摆脱越俎代庖式的造法嫌疑与窠臼。     

The impact of banks and non-bank financial institutions on economic growth

Empirical studies examining the relationship between financial sector development and economic growth without including non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) will likely generate biased empirical results. This study provides evidence that NBFIs can have a statistically significant negative impact on economic growth using cross-country data for both emerging and advanced countries. This finding suggests that these non-bank institutions, often loosely regulated, may introduce an excessive level of risk into the financial sector and the general economy. It is consistent with the current global financial crises where NBFIs, such as investment banks and insurance companies, introduced an excessive level of risk into the global economy. Hence, policy-makers may need to consider more timely and effective regulation of NBFIs and insure that adequate transparency and disclosure is provided to all financial markets participants.