重庆市旅游经济与交通协调发展研究

以重庆市为例,选取了15个反映旅游经济和交通系统发展水平的指标,运用耦合协调度模型,对1993—2013年重庆市旅游经济系统和交通系统的协调发展状况进行了实证分析。结果表明：重庆市旅游经济系统和交通系统综合发展水平发展态势较好,耦合度从0.0119增加到0.6779,两系统的耦合互动效应由弱逐渐变强。目前两系统处在初级协调阶段,重庆市仍需加快交通建设以促进旅游经济健康快速可持续发展的需要。     

International Trade and R&D Investment: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

A current concern for China's long‐term growth prospect is whether China can become an innovative economy and achieve industrial upgrading to compensate for the gradually declining competitiveness resulting from low‐cost labor. The present study examines this issue by exploring how trade participation impacts on the R&D investment of manufacturing firms through various channels. Merging China's Annual Manufacturing Survey Dataset and the Chinese Customs Dataset allows us to study such a relationship at the individual firm level. The empirical results suggest that channels such as geographical diversification of export markets, share of imports from high‐income countries, average unit value of imports, number of intermediate goods and capital goods imports, and the trade regime are significant factors that influence firm‐level R&D investment. The study discusses the policy implications of the empirical findings in relation to industrial and trade policies that may be potentially beneficial for China's transition towards an innovative economy.     

Causes and Remedies of the Japan's Long‐lasting Recession: Lessons for China

Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the early 1990s. In this paper, we analyze the causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy (the lost decade). Economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has argued that Japan's lost decade is an example of a liquidity trap. However, our empirical analysis shows that stagnation of the Japanese economy comes from its vertical IS curve rather than a horizontal LM curve, so the Japanese economy has been facing structural problems rather than a temporary downturn. The vertical IS curve is caused by an insensitivity of investment to a lower interest rate partly because of the decline of sales due to the aging population and firms not wanting to invest. The structural problems come from the aging demographic, which is often neglected by scholars and policy‐makers, and also from the allocation of transfers from the central government to local governments, and the unwillingness of Japanese banks to lend money to startup businesses and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), mainly because of Basel capital requirements. Many countries, like China, are expected to face similar issues, particularly given the aging population. The present paper will address why the Japanese economy has been trapped in a prolonged slowdown and provide some remedies for revitalizing the economy.     

The Political Economy of Public Expenditures in Agriculture: Applications of Concepts to Mozambique

This paper undertakes an investigation of agricultural public investments in Mozambique, drawing on insights from qualitative field interviews conducted in Mozambique, secondary data analysis and examination of the existing empirical literature, and by situating these insights within a political economy conceptual framework. We explore the driving factors behind the amount and allocation of public funds to agriculture, and behind the differential attention that various types of public investments receive in the process of making decisions on resource allocation. Agricultural public investments are more likely to be made that have two key features: higher attributability to politicians and donors of the output of public spending, and a shorter lag time between expenditures incurred and outputs produced. Evidence on geographical targeting of agricultural public funds corresponds more closely with theories suggesting that resources are used to sway communities opposed to the ruling party, rather than to reward political supporters. Examination of the effect of actors' and organisations' incentives and constraints on resource allocation in agriculture points to the importance of not treating “government,” “the ruling party” and other institutions as monolithic bodies; the paper instead highlights how differentiated interests within seemingly coherent institutions drive what gets public expenditure attention in the agricultural sector.     

市场经济条件下市场失灵与政府宏观规制创新研究

市场经济并不是完美的经济形式,市场失灵是世界各国在发展市场经济进程中普遍存在的经济现象。从理念、机制、体制等方面创新政府宏观调控规制是弥补市场失灵的有效工具。     

东北亚区域经济合作与中国东北经济发展研究

东北亚各国发展水平各异,经济互补性强,合作潜力巨大。东北三省通过不断加强与日本、韩国等周边国家的合作,将为东北振兴开辟更广阔的空间。东北亚有关国家也会从中受益,这对推动地区经济发展、推动东亚经济一体化进程都具有重要意义。     

房地产企业的规模经济效应分析

文章采用56家房地产上市公司2007年股票市场的数据,定量的分析了房地产业的规模经济效应,并应用数据包络分析法对我国房地产企业的规模经济效应进行评估。结果显示,我国房地产企业存在规模不经济现象。     

中国沿海地区海洋经济可持续发展能力评价研究

文章建立了海洋经济可持续发展能力灰色综合评价模型,选取了11个海洋经济可持续发展能力评价指标,运用所建立的评价模型对中国11个沿海省（区、市）的海洋经济可持续发展能力进行了综合评价及比较分析,评价结果基本上能反映中国沿海地区当前海洋经济可持续发展状况。     

从政治经济学到经济学的演化逻辑及其问题——政治经济学概念及其内涵之考辨

西方经济学起源于微观性的“家政管理”,但随着其研究逐渐涉入到公共领域而被称为政治经济学。显然,由于除了单纯的个人消费的问题外,人类社会的一切事物根本上都属于涉及到人与人之间关系的公共领域,因而政治经济学本身是一个研究经济现象的更合适名称。但是,由于长期以来人们往往把冠以“政治经济学”之名的经济学等同于国家干预经济学,用“国家或政府行为”来理解政治经济学中的“政治”一词,从而导致了政治经济学内涵的窄化。正是基于这种狭隘概念的理解,产生了目前的经济学两大体系：一方面,西方主流学者强调市场机制的作用以及把研究对象局限于个人发财致富之术,从而用“经济学”一词来取代“政治经济学”一词;另一方面,仍有一部分学者坚持政府对经济的重要作用,从而继承政治经济学的概念。