中国财产保险需求的实证研究:基于险种结构

决定财产保险需求的因素分为宏观性间接因素和结构性直接因素两大部分。选择具有代表性的三个宏观性变量和三个结构性变量,利用2005-2009年我国的省级面板数据,使用逐步回归方法,研究整体财产保险需求和企财险、工程险、车险、信用险等四个要主子险种需求的决定因素。实证结果较好地解释了我国财产保险需求的内因。应逐步建立商业保险补偿为主,社会救济为辅的新型社会风险管理体系。     

中国正在重蹈日本的覆辙吗——一个基于经济学文献的比较分析

"与主要工业化国家经济摩擦加剧、资产价格飙升",21世纪前10年的中国经济表现与20世纪80年代的日本经济表现有着惊人的相似之处。在现有文献的基础上,本文较为系统地比较分析了今日中国与20世纪80年代日本的经济社会发展状况,发现中日两国相似的经济表象背后存在着显著的结构性差异。国际政治、经济形势突变,国内宏观政策失误都有可能导致泡沫形成、甚至破裂,这并不可怕,问题的关键在于一个大国经济体是否具备了实现持久稳定发展的结构性要件。与经济增速和经济总量的快速变化相比,实现政治、社会和经济结构的现代化应是一件更为紧迫的事情。在这个意义上,"中国是否会重蹈日本覆辙"即使不是一个伪命题,至少也是极具误导性的。     

THE DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYMENT: A SECTORAL ANALYSIS FOR TURKEY

This paper analyzes the effects of wages, openness, and demand on employment in the private manufacturing industry in Turkey based on panel data for the period of 1973–2001. The wage elasticity of employment increases after trade liberalization. Nevertheless, output elasticity of labor demand is higher than wage elasticity in the total manufacturing sector for the whole estimation period, and in the high- and medium-skilled sectors in the post-1980 period. Trade effects, after controlling for output, seem to have a low economic significance. The positive effects of exports on the labor intensity of production are low or are offset by labor saving effects of foreign trade, particularly in the high- and medium-skilled sectors. On the other hand, there is some evidence of a negative import effect in the low-skilled sectors, whereas in the high- and medium-skilled group a complementary relation between domestic labor and imported inputs dominates the effects.     

大都市女性流动人口特征与结构解析——以上海市浦东新区实证研究为例

上海作为国际化大都市素有移民城市之美誉,其海纳百川的胸襟为城市的可持续发展不断注入动力和活力,造就了上海历史上的辉煌.20世纪90年代中期,随着浦东开发开放效应的进一步积聚,浦东对海内外各类人才产生了巨大的向心力,也成为全国务工女性的首选地之一.50余万处于劳动年龄段的青壮年女性的流入,为新区的开发建设和经济发展做出了不可磨灭的贡献.本文在广泛调研的基础上对新区外来女性年龄构成、受教育程度、行职业分布等展开较详尽地分析,以企能为新区政府制定人口规划和人才引进政策提供一定的决策依据.     

Global alliance networks: A comparison of biotech SMEs in Sweden and Australia

The role of networks in business operations is widely recognized. We discuss social network theory, identify its main constituents, and outline a methodology and procedure that enable the identification and valuation of informal networks in an international business-to-business environment. Research is carried on informal Internet networks among firms in the biotechnology industry from Sweden and Australia. We use the methodology to recognize salient nodes, determine prominence and identify structural holes that allow the unveiling of brokerage opportunities that lie latent in networks. Global firms and suppliers of industrial products that are or can position themselves effectively in a social network are in a position to leverage considerable value.     

MIND THE GAP: UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE NEW EU REGIONS

Abstract.  The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on optimal speed of transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neo-classical tradition. In the typical neo-classical models, spatial differences essentially arise as a consequence of supply side constraints and institutional rigidities. Slow-growth, high-unemployment regions are those with backward economic structures and constraints on factors mobility contribute to making differences persistent. However, such explanations leave the question unanswered of how unemployment differences arise in the first place. Economic transition provides an excellent testing ground to answer this question. Pre-figuring an empirical law, the OST literature finds that the high degree of labour turnover of high unemployment regions is associated with a high rate of industrial restructuring and, consequently, that low unemployment may be achieved by implementing transition more gradually. Moreover, international trade, foreign direct investment and various agglomeration factors help explain the success of capital cities compared to peripheral towns and rural areas in achieving low unemployment. The evidence of the empirical literature on supply side factors suggests that wage flexibility in Central and Eastern Europe is not lower than in other EU countries, while labour mobility seems to reinforce rather than change the spatial pattern of unemployment.     

Propensity to firm creation: empirical research using structural equations

The identification of the entrepreneurs’ characteristics and the knowledge of the entrepreneurial profile of university students have been assuming a growing importance in the development of educational programs directed towards the entrepreneurship and start-up processes. This study aims to identify the factors that most contribute for the intention to start up a business. The research also tries to identify the profile of a potential entrepreneur student concerning several characteristics: personal attributes, family, demographic variables and motivations. Research findings include the idea that entrepreneurship education is the most relevant factor in what concerns the propensity to business creation. On the other side, personal characteristics have an important role in shaping motivation to start-up a business and perceived hurdles have a negative impact in the intention to start-up. The results may be relevant when developing an adequate educational program directed to the entrepreneurship education and start-up processes.     

结构突变对实证估计方法选择的影响：以人民币汇率为例

本文在详细归纳结构突变的单位根检验方法基础上,以2002—2007年间人民币汇率为例探讨了结构突变对于模型估计方法选择的影响。采用结构突变的单位根检验方法得到的检验结果否定了不考虑结构突变的传统ADF检验结果,揭示出人民币兑日元汇率时间序列为结构突变的平稳序列。本文结论表明,是否考虑结构突变将会导致对估计方法作出截然不同的选择,不考虑结构突变可能会带来“伪协整”问题。     

省际贸易对中国经济增长的贡献研究

研究目标：考察省际贸易对经济增长的贡献。研究方法：区分结构影响与部门影响的因素分解模型。研究发现：第一,消费对中国经济增长的贡献比重在下降;省际调出因素和出口因素的贡献比重在上升。第二,1987年,省际调出仅在3个省份是经济增长的第一贡献因素;2007年,省际调出则在11个省份成为经济增长的第一贡献因素。第三,从省份视角看,尽管出口对经济增长的贡献比重在上升,但在2007年,省际调出贡献比重仍然是出口贡献比重的3.5倍;从部门视角看,省际调出的贡献比重也依然大于出口的贡献比重。第四,在将因素贡献比重变化的来源区分为结构影响与部门影响之后,不管是消费贡献比重的下降,还是省际调出和出口贡献比重的上升,部门影响均发挥着主导作用。研究创新：将省际贸易引入关于经济增长的因素分解模型。研究价值：对于目前步入“新常态”的中国经济,省际贸易可以成为未来中国经济新的增长点。     

A structural framework for modelling contingent capital

This paper develops a structural model of contingent capital. In contrast to existing approaches we explicitly link the firm’s total payout to its cost of debt, leading to a total payout that is linear in—as opposed to proportional to—asset value. In the special case that asset value evolves as affine geometric Brownian motion we derive closed-form expressions for limiting (i.e. perpetual) bond values. The proposed model is flexible, so that it can be used to gauge the relative merits of different variations of contingent capital, and parsimonious, so that it is relatively easy to implement in practice. An empirical example using data from the Canadian banking sector is provided that illustrates how the model can generate insights into problems that are of interest to both regulators and issuers of contingent capital (e.g. what range of conversion prices would be consistent with regulatory guidelines, and how expensive is contingent debt over this range).