吉安市茶叶产业发展研究

吉安市是江西省茶叶主产区,该文分析了吉安市茶叶产业的优势条件,提出茶产业发展的思路定位和未来15年的发展目标和布局:即打造优质品牌、抓好基地建设、扶持龙头企业、发展茶文化旅游。并提出了产业发展的保障措施,即加大科技投入,走产业化、标准化、绿色生产发展道路。     

Visions and scenarios of democratic governance in Asia 2030

Using the Six Pillars foresight workshop process, forty-five Asian political, policy and activist leaders explored the futures of democratic governance. Organized and funded by Oxfam and the Rockefeller Foundation, the organizing hypothesis was that without a change in the nature of governance in Asia, poverty could not truly be uprooted. Changes in governance needed to be imagined and created from the ground up, not just imposed by the past or the elite. Five visions with accompanying causal layered analysis were developed by participants. Generally, these visions focused on more inclusion not just at the level of voting, but in terms of the participatory creation of alternative futures of culture, technology, economy and polity.     

Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark,Germany and the UK

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that the wage and employment effects of immigration depend on wage flexibility and the composition of the labor supply shock. In Germany immigration involves only moderate wage, but large unemployment effects, since immigrants are concentrated in labor market segments with low wage flexibility. The reverse is true for the UK and Denmark.     

How credible is the North Korean threat?

We perform event analysis on particular episodes of tension in the Korean peninsula between 2000 and 2008, and investigate the effect of the events on South Korean financial markets (stock markets, bond yield spreads and the exchange rate) given that South Korea would be the first affected by a military aggression from North Korea. Surprisingly, in nearly all cases, these events, which have often been dramatized in the world media, have no significant impact on either of these variables or only a very small one. We also find no significant impact of events on listed firms that would a priori be likely to suffer from increased tension between the two Koreas. Since financial markets often contain better predictions than expert opinions or surveys, these results strongly suggest that the North Korean threat is non‐credible.     

试论魏晋南北朝的辞章理论成就

我国魏晋南北朝是古代汉语辞章学的奠基时期:在体式、风格方面,已开始区分文与笔;出现了中国古代辞章学第一篇综合性的文论——魏·曹丕《典论·论文》;以荀粲为代表的言不尽意说、以王弼为代表的得意忘言说、以欧阳建为代表的言尽意说的言意论以及许多名家各具代表性的辞章理论,如晋·陆机《文赋》、葛洪《抱朴子》、南朝·梁·刘勰《文心雕龙》、钟嵘《诗品》、萧统编辑的《文选》等都对后世辞章理论与实践作出重要的贡献,产生深远的影响;尤其是南朝·梁·刘勰《文心雕龙》是第一部最全面、最系统、体大思精的中国古代辞章学专著,堪称中国古代辞章学的奠基之作。     

The average consumer, the unfair commercial practices directive, and the cognitive revolution

This article examines the merit of the test of the average consumer as a basis for judicial and regulatory action. In the first part, we describe the origin of the test, its application in the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and its possible developments. In the second part, we discuss the theoretical grounds of the average consumer test (i.e., information and rationality), drawing upon the studies of cognitive psychology and behavioural economics concerning consumers’ behaviour. The result of our analysis is that we call into serious question the practical workability of the test of the average consumer, which requires consumers an overly demanding standard of rationality and information without dedicating much attention to the real functioning of consumer behaviour. The average consumer may be described as an interesting, anti-paternalistic and, to some extent, useful notion. It is, however, an overly simplistic concept with little correspondence with the real world of individual consumer behaviour and should be reinterpreted more flexibly, or even abandoned to mirror consumer behaviour more effectively.

论财经专业研究生学位论文的选题

选题是指一定时代的科学认识主体在所处时代知识背景下所提出的科学认识和科学实践中需要解决而又未能解决或未能很好解决但通过努力可以解决的问题。选题的战略地位体现于四个方面:选题的价值决定研究成果的价值、选题的重要性决定研究成果的重要性、选题的高度决定科研成果创新的高度、选题的成败决定科研工作的成败。选题的原则主要有两条:理论价值与现实意义、研究者的心得体会。选题的来源有四个:从社会需求中寻找选题,从理论与实践之间的矛盾中析出选题,从理论内部的矛盾中推导选题,从实践内部的矛盾中挖掘选题。选题的艺术主要在于"大处着眼,小处着手"。