Some Comments on Embeddedness, Knowledge Transfer, Industry Clusters and Global Competitiveness

This paper develops a dynamic theoretical framework for global competitiveness, which describes the relationships among organizations in an industry cluster. The spiral for knowledge transfer, culture variables and embeddedness influence knowledge transfer. Embeddedness and knowledge transfer are the key determinants of industry clusters that lead to global competitiveness. Industry clusters are characterized by external economies, generalized reciprocity and flexible specialization.     

重塑二元金融结构下的农村金融

中国目前的金融结构具有明显的二元性。二元金融结构对中国农村发展产生严重的负面影响。要从根本上解决中国“三农”问题,必须重塑二元金融结构下的农村金融,充分发挥农村金融的“资金催化剂”作用。     

论个人所得税的二元课税模式

由于综合个人所得税制在理论基础和实际征管方面都存在着难以克服的困难,发端于北欧国家的对劳动所得适用累进税率而对资本所得适用比例税率的二元个人所得税制就成为一种较为现实而理想的模式,在国际上正得到日益广泛的支持。我国近年提出的综合与分类相结合的个人所得税制模式近似于二元所得税制,应当作为个人所得税改革的长远目标,但还需对具体制度安排进行恰当的设计。     

我国产业集群的外生性、嵌入性与内生性缺陷

根据发达国家产业集群的发展实践及相关嵌入性研究发现,集群的内生性嵌入是外生性嵌入的基础与竞争优势的源泉,外生性嵌入是保持与扩大竞争优势的方式与手段。我国在利用FDI过程中形成的大量外生性产业集群,正是由于缺乏内生性嵌入而难以形成本地企业的竞争优势,从而陷入“OEM锁定”而难以自拔。     

城乡统筹发展的理论梳理和深入探讨

无论是马克思主义还是西方新古典主义或者发展经济学都从不同层面上深入探讨了城乡统筹的本质和关键内容。统筹城乡经济社会发展必须深入研究造成中国二元经济结构的一般和特殊性问题。总结中国城乡发展失衡的内在机理,除了中国特色的工业化道路诱致和加剧了城乡二元结构的产生,一系列配套政策的实施则固化了二元结构的现状。中国二元经济结构的转变,不仅要实现农业剩余劳动力的转移,而且必须全面解决“三农”问题以及城市与乡村、经济和社会的协调发展问题。     

Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution?

In recent years, two distinct but related questions have been raised with respect to value-added taxes (VATs). Concern has been expressed over whether it is desirable or even possible for both national and subnational governments in federal countries such as India, Argentina, and Russia to impose VATs. One reason for thinking that such subnational VATs are unlikely to be workable on a destination basis is the problem of cross-border trade. Of course, this same problem also arises within the European Union, where there is no EU VAT. Drawing upon Canadian experience, we argue that not only is it possible to have two-tier or dual VATs on a destination basis in a single country but that the existence of dual VATs may help deal with some of the problems of cross-border trade.     

Entrepreneurial resource acquisition via personal networks: an empirical study of German start-ups

This paper presents a resource-based theoretical model for an extended version of the network success hypothesis. It derives four main hypotheses for the relationships between resources obtained from personal networks of the founders and a new venture's success. The model takes into account a broad range of control variables. In the empirical study, based on a sample of 123 German entrepreneurs, we do not find much support for our hypotheses. We conclude that, quite in contrast to most existing theories, network links have close to no impact on getting cheap or exclusive resources.     

Knowledge embeddedness and the transfer mechanisms in multinational corporations

This paper reports a qualitative study conducted at four Japanese subsidiaries in China and Vietnam about their process of international knowledge transfer. Building on the literatures concerning the diverse types and characteristics of knowledge in multinational corporations (MNCs), we explore the broad mechanisms adopted and locally generated by the host country subsidiaries for transferring the foreign knowledge and putting the locally embedded knowledge into practical use at the local settings. The findings indicated (1) the limitations of applying a standardized and universal set of knowledge transfer mechanisms without considering local idiosyncrasies and (2) the contributions of local agents and institutions throughout the process of local knowledge adaptation and development.     

The dynamic unsubstitutability of sterilization operations and neutral-intervention operations under dual exchange rates

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether neutral-intervention operations are a substitute for sterilization operations under the dual-exchange regime from the viewpoint of dynamic adjustment. It is found that both operations will generate quite different behavior throughout the adjustment process, although they are substitutable from the viewpoint of insulating money supply from the status of the current account. In addition, we also found that if the monetary authorities either intervene in the financial foreign exchange market or undertake sterilization operations in the open market, the dual-exchange regime will lose its insulation function to external financial disturbances.     

亚文化及广东区域文化制约经济发展的机理分析

阐述了亚文化制约经济发展的机理,认为广东区域文化心理的二元结构具有兼容性与自闭性、竞先性与惧安性、商效性与即实性等特性,二元文化心理及隐性文化因子运动的持续增强是区域文化制约经济发展的内在机理,广东区域经济中出现的品牌次级化现象是区域文化制约经济的作用显现。