Load profiles and flexibility in operation of washing machines and dishwashers in Europe

While the energy generation system is changing towards the use of more renewable energies, the problem of how to deal with fluctuating energy supply is increasing. Smart appliances in households are often referenced as one possible solution, as their operation may be shifted in time and, thus, used to balance an unstable energy supply. The potential of such appliances has been studied to date mainly in pilot installations with a very limited number of participants or by making assumptions on what might be possible. With this work, a semi‐representative approach for 12 European countries was used to assess actual consumer habits for the use of washing machines and dishwashers which then could be used to calculate average load profiles for those appliances depending on the time of the day. Using these profiles, it is strait forward to calculate how much load may be shifted by those appliances in a demand response application. This allows aggregators or energy utilities to assign clear financial benefits to the shifting potential of those appliances. Consumers use the shifting of appliance operation already today for various reasons. Investigating these reasons allows to learn already a lot about the flexibility of consumers.     

How a Firm's Domestic Footprint and Domestic Environmental Uncertainties Jointly Shape Added Cultural Distances: The Roles of Resource Dependence and Headquarters Attention

Even though many firms conduct most of their business domestically, international management research has remained remarkably silent on the role of a firm's domestic footprint in its internationalization strategy. We shed light on that role by exploring how the size of a firm's domestic footprint influences the cultural distance that the firm adds to its country portfolio when expanding internationally. Integrating resource dependence theory and the attention‐based view, we hypothesize that a firm's domestic footprint has a negative relationship with added cultural distance (ACD), and that domestic policy uncertainty strengthens this relationship whereas domestic demand uncertainty weakens it. We find robust support for our hypotheses in a sample of the world's largest retailers covering the period 2000–07, indicating that a firm's domestic footprint and domestic environmental uncertainties jointly shape cross‐cultural expansion strategies. Our findings suggest that ACDs reflect headquarters executives' desire to avoid ineffective foreign expansions, hinting at possible biases in studies of the performance effects of distance.     

关于实现内外贸一体化的障碍和对策思考

在中国流通领域,内外贸一体化改革在体制上、机制上、政策法规上、观念上、管理上等存在着诸多障碍。要加快内外贸一体化进程,必须深化流通体制的改革,促进内外贸市场的互补,加快流通业的法制建设,培育跨国公司,加强中介组织的建设,建成统一的内外市场,以提高中国经济的整体实力。     

靖江市污染源普查现状分析及污染控制措施

江苏省靖江市作为长江三角洲经济区的组成部分,在综合实力快速攀升的同时,造成的环境污染也不可小觑。利用污染源普查数据和社会经济统计数据,对本区域内的污染物产生、排放特点及污染现状进行了分析,指出了在工业污染得到重视的同时,生活污染和农业污染也不可忽视。它们共同作用,造成环境质量水、气、土壤(底质)中多项指标超标。并针对工业污染、生活污染和农业污染的不同排放特征提出相应的治理措施。     

青岛高端产业发展水平国内外对比分析

基于国家统计局、青岛市统计局、世界知识竞争力指数等数据,采用层次指标分析、聚类分析等方法,分析了青岛与国内19个城市的高端产业发展水平的差异,绘制了全球138个城市或地区的高端产业人力资源分布,并研究了青岛高端产业的绩效情况。结果显示,青岛高端产业具有较高生产率及较高增加率的特点,但与国内外先进城市相比,尚处于弱势位置,整体发展水平仍存在不小差距。     

我国商业银行代客境外理财业务发展的战略研究

央行"5号公告"和<商业银行开办代客境外理财业务管理暂行办法>为我国商业银行业务发展开启了一道新门--代客境外理财业务.本文采用SWOT方法,对我国商业银行开展代客境外理财业务的外部环境和内部环境进行辩证分析,指出面临的机会与威胁以及存在的优势和劣势,最后提出我国商业银行开展代客境外理财业务的战略选择--抓住机遇、避开威胁、发挥优势、消除劣势.     

外资企业进入内销市场的障碍与对策研究——以东莞市为例

外资企业进入内销市场是中国加入WTO后中国经济政策走向的一个重要内容,但从东莞调查的情况看,外资企业的内销还处于起步阶段,其原因就在于目前内销市场还存在外部进入障碍和内部市场障碍。为此,政府应转变外销优于内销的政策倾斜;改变把国内外两个市场截然分开的政策与管理模式,统一准入标准;发挥保税区和保税物流区整合物流、强化内销的作用;加强内销市场的监管,加大知识产权保护和规范企业行为。     

Inflation in New EU Member States: A Domestically or Externally Driven Phenomenon?

This article empirically analyzes the domestic and external inflation determinants for eight non-eurozone new EU member states (NMS), using a structural vector autoregression model. Results indicate that foreign shocks are a major factor in explaining inflation dynamics in the medium run, while the short-run inflation dynamics are mainly influenced by domestic shocks. Moreover, the importance of the foreign inflation component has had a rising trend in the precrisis period in all NMS and mostly coincided with their accession to the EU. This trend ended with the onset of the global financial crisis. The study implicates the need to augment the classical Taylor rule with foreign factors in the case of small open economies.     

The political economy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: a ‘21st Century’ trade agreement?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was the first of the ‘Mega-FTAs’ to be signed. Had it been ratified, it would have created the world’s largest preferential trade area. The negotiators of the TPP aspired to create ‘a next-generation transformative agreement’ that would address a new trade agenda focused on regulatory coherence and business facilitation. The expectation was that this agenda would generate a 21st Century trade politics that would be less contentious, at least among business actors, than traditional negotiations on market access. Studies of another Mega-FTA under negotiation, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that has a similar agenda found unified business support for the agreement domestically and the emergence of transnational business coalitions in support of the agreement. Recent theorising on trade politics suggests, however, that global value chains (GVCs) that involve vertical intra-industry trade introduce ‘traditional’ distributional issues that will divide business interests domestically – and, in the case of GVCs organised on different geographical bases, internationally as well. This cleavage was evident in the TPP negotiations, unlike those for TTIP, as were other divisions among business – both domestically and across countries – over the sharing of existing rents and of new rents generated by regulatory harmonisation.     

国产手机行业发展的金融对策研究

文章在分析国产手机竞争、盈利模式等方面介绍当前国产手机现状的基础上,通过长虹手机为代表的国产手机和国外高端机在投入、方向等方面进行对比,找出存在的问题,并针对当前国产手机的存在的问题,提出相应的金融性对策。