复保险欺诈法律规制

笔者认为复保险欺诈区别于善意复保险之处在于投保人于保险合同订立之际,意图谋取不当得利,或在保险合同有效期内知悉复保险的存在而不为通知,或故意为虚假通知.对于复保险欺诈的法律规制,认为应将复保险欺诈作为保险合同法定无效的原因,对严重的复保险欺诈应追究刑事责任;可以赋予保险人司法协助请求权,建立反保险欺诈信息中心.     

Four scenarios for nanotechnologies in the UK, 2011–2020

The future social value of nanoscale science and technology (NST) has been repeatedly represented as revolutionary. However, government and industry support for the commercialisation of NST has to confront four key areas of uncertainty: concerning potential hazards associated with applications, commercial viability, public acceptance and evolving regulation. Academic and policy responses have to date largely emphasised the need for adaptive and anticipatory regulation, yet research which evaluates the prospects of success in implementing such measures has so far been lacking. This paper contributes to remedying this lack by examining difficulties and opportunities which may arise around this regulatory agenda in the UK, with the aid of a ‘policy Delphi’ exercise undertaken with a multi-stakeholder panel. It summarises four scenarios to aid policy-makers and technology strategists in the UK and internationally in thinking through how the future of NST innovation may be affected by factors associated with the aforementioned areas of uncertainty.     

Regulating prices for shifting between service providers

The price that a regulated access provider charges for shifting customers between service providers has significant welfare implications. Typical regulatory approaches to pricing, such as pricing based on fully allocated cost or incremental cost, ignore the characteristics of consumer demand. A theoretical alternative, Ramsey pricing, considers only the elasticity of demand for given products. This paper directs attention to the competitive process. Using US long-distance telephone services as an example, this paper shows how empirical evidence concerning customer acquisition costs, customer switching costs, and churn among service providers can help to inform price regulation.     

Regulatory tune-ups

Regulators cannot continuously and perfectly monitor firms. The alternative considered here supposes the regulator sets prices at discrete, unforeseen, times. I show that when marginal cost follows a stochastic diffusion process, but the regulator only irregularly adjusts the regulated price, the optimal price may be less than or greater than the expected level of marginal costs. The regulated price should be higher the steeper the demand curve, the lower the discount rate, and the greater the variance of costs. The social benefit of changing the price following a change in marginal cost is usually greater if at the time price was set marginal cost was low.     

工程造价管理的发展及应对的措施

工程造价管理是以科学的工程造价运动为客观依据的。我国加入WTO之后,面对工程造价管理的现实情况,如国际化,网络化,信息化的问题,必须加强在管理法制化和科学化的研究,在实践中找出适合我国国情的有创造性的工程造价管理措施,应对世界性和谐发展的到来。     

我国景区门票价格上涨的调控对策

我国景区门票价格的轮番上涨引发了社会各界人士的紧密关注,各类涨价理由招致了大众的质疑。文章通过各类数据分析,阐述了我国景区门票价格现存问题、分析了我国景区价格上涨的内在原因。最后从经营目标、资金渠道、景区管理、资源保护、听证制度五个方面提出了调控价格上涨建议。     

Regulatory ‘Balancing’ and the Efficiency of Green R&D

We identify and analyse several dynamic implications of setting environmental standards such as to balance marginal costs and benefits. The adoption of such a regulatory approach is shown to effect (i) the speed of improvement of abatement technologies; (ii) the direction (in a sense to be defined) of that improvement; (iii) its source and the distribution of the rents from it; and (iv) the rate of development of defensive (averting) technologies. Existing views are thoroughly synthesised in the context of a simple diagrammatic model, several new results are derived and at least one conventional wisdom questioned. The message of the analysis for legislators and regulators is that cost–benefit balancing should be done with care.     

Compound Voids and Unproductive Entrepreneurship: The Rise of the “English Fever” in China

China has emerged as an economic power due, in part, to government policies that opened China to the world and created a modern consumer culture. One of these policies is the advancement of English-language education, including private providers, which has spawned the “English Fever” phenomenon. We use the unique context of the private English-language education industry in China to illustrate the concept of “compound (institutional) voids” and their relationship to unproductive entrepreneurship. Our contribution is in untangling some of the complexities related to institutional relationships, and in describing how compound voids increase the likelihood of rent-seeking behavior.