The geometry of voting power: Weighted voting and hyper-ellipsoids

Suppose legislators represent districts of varying population, and their assembly's voting rule is intended to implement the principle of one person, one vote. How should legislators' voting weights appropriately reflect these population differences? An analysis requires an understanding of the relationship between voting weight and some measure of the influence that each legislator has over collective decisions. We provide three new characterizations of weighted voting that embody this relationship. Each is based on the intuition that winning coalitions should be close to one another. The locally minimal and tightly packed characterizations use a weighted Hamming metric. Ellipsoidal separability employs the Euclidean metric: a separating hyper-ellipsoid contains all winning coalitions, and omits losing ones. The ellipsoid's proportions, and the Hamming weights, reflect the ratio of voting weight to influence, measured as Penrose–Banzhaf voting power. In particular, the spherically separable rules are those for which voting powers can serve as voting weights.     

大众知情权侵犯个人隐私权的成因及其制约

个人隐私权和大众知情权是一对矛盾体。媒体在新闻报道中侵犯个人隐私权的状况时有发生,但是其成因却是各种各样的。在深入讨论大众知情权对隐私权侵犯的成因后,得出公共利益、媒体利益和个人利益冲突,是造成这种现象的主要成因;并在此基础上,对如何平衡个人隐私权和大众知情权提出建设性的解决方案。     

Carbon and energy prices under uncertainty: A theoretical analysis of fuel switching with heterogenous power plants

European power producers have a major influence on the EU ETS, given that both their CO₂ emissions and their EUA (European Union Allowance) allocations account for more than half of the total volumes of the scheme. Fuel switching is often considered as the main short-term abatement measure under the EU ETS. It consists in substituting combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) for hard-coal plants in power generation. Thereby coal plants run for shorter periods, and CO₂ emissions are reduced. This paper provides the first theoretical analysis of fuel switching, in a context where power plants involved are not equally efficient. We begin with a preliminary work using illustrative examples and sensitivity analyses, which enables us to observe how differences in the efficiency of power plants impact the cost of fuel switching, and how this is related to the level of switching effort. Based on this, we build a theoretical model taking into account the effect of differences in the efficiency of power plants involved in fuel switching. We also investigate the effect of the timing of fuel switching abatements, within the temporally defined environment of our dynamic model. Results demonstrate that the gas price and uncontrolled CO₂ emissions act together on the carbon price. We show that the influence of the gas price on the carbon price depends on the level of uncontrolled CO₂ emissions, due to heterogeneity of power plants that are used in the fuel switching process. Furthermore, we show that the time of occurrence of uncontrolled emissions matters so that shocks have a stronger impact when they occur in a period that is closed to the end of the phase.     

浅析中国大豆对外贸易的现状及问题

自从中国加入世贸组织以来,我国大豆对外贸易逆差越来越大。大豆进口量逐年增长以及对进口依存度过高等现象的存在,给国内大豆种植生产带来了一定的影响。文章主要从中国大豆对外贸易的现状着手,分别从中国大豆定价权的缺失、转基因大豆对我国大豆行业的冲击、国内政策对大豆产业的支持力度不够、大豆进口管理机制有待完善等四个方面阐述了中国大豆对外贸易所存在的问题。     

当代中国收入分化的现状及主要原因

中国在现代化进程中面临着一些现代性问题的困扰,其中,贫富分化成为社会矛盾的焦点之一。改革开放以来,中国居民生活水平得到整体提升,但也出现了结构上的分化。造成贫富差距的原因是复杂多重的。其中,城乡二元体制造成了城乡资源分配不公和收入差距,垄断行业的存在则使得资源在少部分群体中集聚,加深了贫富之间的鸿沟。此外,中国的社会保障制度没能充分发挥其调节作用,使得部分底层群体无法解决温饱问题,造成极贫群体的出现。值得关注的是,单位体制下的既得利益者,在住房制度改革后又获得福利性住房,住房不公平由此产生财产不公平。国家对于不断拉大的收入差距主要采取宏观政策加以调控,改革财税制度和完善社会保障同时进行,但这并不能因此改变由城乡二元体制和垄断等所带来的必然结果,因而只能起到局部调节收入差距的效果,不能实现真正的社会公正。     

CEO特征对公司研发投资的影响——基于上市公司2010-2014年数据的实证研究

以2010—2014年中国沪深两市A股上市公司为研究样本,运用多元回归模型和普通最小二乘法,研究CEO特征对公司研发投资的影响。研究发现：在非国有控股企业中,CEO年龄、CEO学历、CEO任期、CEO是否变更与研发投资存在正相关关系,并且相关关系较为显著。在国有控股企业中,CEO年龄、CEO任期与研发投资存在正相关关系,CEO学历、CEO是否变更与研发投资存在负相关关系,但是相关关系均不显著。本文研究意义表现在：从国有控股企业和非国有控股企业的角度,为基于CEO特征的人才任用提供参考。本文研究创新表现在：基于CEO特征的差异,对国有控股企业和非国有控股企业进行了区别分析。     

电力市场环境下抽水蓄能电站经营模式的探索

简述抽水蓄能电站经营模式现状,论述抽水蓄能电站容量效益和电量效益的划分,提出电网公司和若干大机组发电企业的共同租赁模式及其模型表述,对该模式的合理性进行分析,指出：共同租赁的经营模式使电厂和电网在都受益的前提下各承担一部分租赁费,兼顾各方的利益,具有较强的可行性。     

关于增列审计学一级学科的设想

审计是党和国家、各类组织监督体系中的重要组成部分，是一种依法监督经济权力行使的制度安排，具有鲜明的法学学科属性。推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化，迫切需要构建中国特色社会主义审计学科体系、学术体系和话语体系，构建现代审计人才培养体系。审计学具有确定的研究对象，形成了相对独立、自成体系的理论、知识基础和研究方法，已经具备设置为一级学科的条件，应该在法学学科门类下增列审计学一级学科。     

衡水市农户土地资源转出意愿的影响因素与行政干预

[目的]通过了解河北省衡水市农户土地转出的意愿状况,分析影响农户土地资源转出意愿的关键因素,并制定正确的战略决策,为构建农地适度规模化经营奠定理论基础,促进衡水市农民的现代化发展。[方法]文章结合调研情况,对样本区农户土地使用权流转行为进行了统计描述和分析研究,并运用Logistic模型对农户土地使用权转出意愿的影响因素进行了分析,找到了影响衡水市土地流转的关键性因素。[结果]研究表明,户主年龄、从事职业和文化程度、农户家庭非农收入以及农户家庭兼业人数等与农户土地转出意愿呈显著正相关关系,显著性数值分别为0. 018、0. 000、0. 010、0. 000、0. 028,而农户家庭农用机械数量则与农户土地转出意愿呈显著负相关关系,显著性数值为0. 033。此外农户社会保障程度和农户对政府土地流转的相关政策了解程度等因素也影响着农户土地流转的意愿。[结论]影响农户土地转出意愿的显著性因素包括家庭非农收入、户主年龄和职业;另外,户主的年龄、职业、文化程度、非农收入、家庭兼业人数和农用机械数量均是影响农户土地转出意愿的重要内容。