Measuring China’s domestic production networks through Trade in Value-added perspectives

Evaluating the role and performance of China's participation in Global value chains (GVCs) has been a hot policy and research issue in recent years. However, most GVCs-related literature about China focuses on country-to-country relations; less attention has been paid to China's domestic value chains (DVCs). GVCs should have their domestic foundations since strong linkages across domestic firms and regions can improve productivity through gains from specialization, which make domestic industries more competitive in GVCs in turn. This paper applies the so-called Trade in Value-added (TiVA) concept and the decomposition of domestic-regional trade in TiVA terms to re-measure the inter-industrial and interregional linkages in China's DVCs. We show that TiVA-based measures can significantly enrich our understanding on both the structure change of China's regional economy and the position and participation degree of Chinese regions in DVCs.     

1989—2010年新疆经济发展差异的区域分析

以县域为基本单元,在综合考虑各县域人均GDP和GDP总量变化的基础上,运用象限图法和泰尔指数法,分析了新疆不同县域经济发展类型和县域经济差异的时空变化趋势,结果表明：新疆县域经济呈现不同的增长类型,且在东疆、南疆、北疆之间及区内各县市之间呈现分异性。区域经济滞后型的县域明显多于经济活跃型的县域,经济活跃型的县域集中分布于天山北坡、铁路、公路主干线上,经济滞后型县域集中分布于南疆以及北疆、东疆的边远地区。泰尔指数分析结果表明,在区域总体差异扩大的同时,东疆、南疆、北疆三大区域之间的差异和区内各县域之间的差异都在逐步扩大,并且区内差异是区域总体差异的主要贡献者。     

区域性专利信息管理与利用研究——以湖南省为例

通过对湖南省知识产权优势企业专利信息利用情况的调查,分析了湖南省专利信息利用存在的问题,提出了区域专利信息利用发展规划的目标定位和重点任务,为提升区域专利信息利用绩效提供了参考。     

呼和浩特地区城镇体系工农业发展能力的异速生长分析

文章运用分形思想和系统科学理论对呼和浩特各旗县20余年工业总产值和农业总产值进行异速生长分析,发现各旗县之间在工业发展上存在较好的幂指数关系,而在农业发展上则存在明显的退化。通过系统结构的深入分析,揭示了呼和浩特市各旗县发展的基础和未来的发展潜力。在理论上为城镇体系异速生长的多指标分析建立了一个完整范例,在实践上则为正在进行的呼和浩特市城镇发展战略规划提供了科学依据。     

跨国公司总部经济对区域经济的影响分析

跨国公司总部经济是经济全球化和区域经济一体化发展到一定阶段的产物,其效应不仅促进了跨国公司的加速发展,更促进了所在区域的发展。跨国公司总部经济在中国大中城市的迅速发展,推动了区域经济的良性发展,促进产业集群的形成,并加快区域经济融入国际化的进程。     

The determinants of the location of foreign direct investment in UK regions†

This article employs a database of over 2000 observations of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in UK regions. We analyse this data by means of various multinomial and conditional logit models in order to identify the major determinants of the location choices of these inward investments. Having controlled for the various characteristics of inward investing firms, the projects and the regions, our results suggest that existing regional specialization is the single most important determining feature of where inward FDI locates. In addition, London is seen to benefit primarily by the immigration of new investments, the majority of which are related to service sector activities.     

Regional productivity variation and the impact of public capital stock: an analysis with spatial interaction,with reference to Spain

In this article, we examine whether variations in the level of public capital across Spain's Provinces affected productivity levels over the period 1996 to 2005. The analysis is motivated by contemporary urban economics theory, involving a production function for the competitive sector of the economy (‘industry’) which includes the level of composite services derived from ‘service’ firms under monopolistic competition. The outcome is potentially increasing returns to scale resulting from pecuniary externalities deriving from internal increasing returns in the monopolistic competition sector. We extend the production function by also making (log) labour efficiency a function of (log) total public capital stock and (log) human capital stock, leading to a simple and empirically tractable reduced form linking productivity level to density of employment, human capital and public capital stock. The model is further extended to include technological externalities or spillovers across provinces. Using panel data methodology, we find significant elasticities for total capital stock and for human capital stock, and a significant impact for employment density. The finding that the effect of public capital is significantly different from zero, indicating that it has a direct effect even after controlling for employment density, is contrary to some of the earlier research findings which leave the question of the impact of public capital unresolved.     

Fundamentals or trends? A long-term perspective on house prices

Using a long-term time series covering 350 years of house prices along the Herengracht in Amsterdam, we examine whether a fundamental factor or a trend explains house prices and whether their explanatory power is time varying. We find that agents in the housing market switch in their formation of expectations about future changes in house prices between fundamental and momentum strategies. Specifically, we show that agents base their expectations more on fundamentals during economic slowdowns and more on recent trends or momentum during economic booms.     

Teaching the history of economic thought

The main purpose of this survey is to present the results of a questionnaire recently sent to historians of economic thought. This questionnaire — presented in the appendix - was devised so as to provide data on the approaches and experiences of teaching the history of economic thought in a wide range of universities throughout the world.

A summary of the most significant results is presented in section 2 of this survey. Section 1 provides a general introduction to the methodological context of the discussion of problems concerning the teaching of the discipline.