“五位一体”教学法及其在电子商务专业教学中的应用

“五位一体”的教学模式是为适应现代社会对经济管理类人才培养的要求而提出的一种新的教学理念和方法。本文系统地阐述了“五位一体”教学模式的内容及其内涵,并结合该教学模式在电子商务专业教学中的具体应用,就“五位一体”教学法的实质及其现实意义进行了深入的分析。     

职业学校学生学习心理之浅谈

职业学校学生的学习心理在学习动机、学习兴趣、学习能力等方面有其特殊性。职业教育应合理构筑教 学计划、强化专业技能培训,提倡“以学为中心”培养学生学习兴趣,帮助、辅导学习有困难的学生。     

高职“法律基础”课教学改革初探

法律基础课是高职思想政治教育课的重要课程,教学效果和教学质量却一直不太理想,究其原因是多方面的,主要是领导重视不够、教学形式单一、教学方法单调、教学材料陈旧、缺少实践教学等因素造成的。因此,改革法律基础课的教学成为当务之急。文章认为丰富教学内容,改进教学方法和形式,引入案例教学是改革必经之道,同时借助社会这个大舞台通过多种渠道加强实践教学也是当务之急。     

高校“两课“教学存在的问题与对策之我见

"两课"是对大学生进行马克思主义理论与思想政治教育的主阵地和主渠道,本文分析了"两课"教学存在的主要问题及原因,对提高"两课"教学实效性的对策进行了探索和思考.     

高职教育实践性教学初探

加强高等职业教育的实践性教学,是高等职业教育教学改革的一个关键的突破口。只有加强实践性教学的探讨和创新,才能突出高职教育的特色。要积极探讨建立实践性教学为主的模式和运行机制,如实践性教学导师制、学生模拟实习公司等。同时,要处理好理论教学与实践教学的关系,处理好培养人才"宽"与"窄"的关系。     

会计(连锁企业财会审)专业教学改革试点研究

专业教学试点的实践证明,《会计(连锁企业财会审)》试点专业教学改革方案是可行的,“从实际出发,加强学生能力培养”的模式在专业教学改革试点中充分发挥了作用,学生初步具备了一定的外语能力,具有较广泛的专业知识。本文以详实的资料论述了两年来的改革经验,有一定的参考借鉴作用。     

浅谈计算机教学

如何迎接二十一世纪的挑战,培养适应社会需要和发展的一流人才,急需学校和其他教育部门应尽快变革与现时经济发展脱节的教学模式、课程设置,尤其是职业学校计算机教学应适应社会发展,使学生在计算机应用方面有一技之长。     

Forecasting recovery rates on non-performing loans with machine learning

We compare the performance of a wide set of regression techniques and machine-learning algorithms for predicting recovery rates on non-performing loans, using a private database from a European debt collection agency. We find that rule-based algorithms such as Cubist, boosted trees, and random forests perform significantly better than other approaches. In addition to loan contract specificities, predictors that refer to the bank recovery process — prior to the portfolio’s sale to a debt collector — are also shown to enhance forecasting performance. These variables, derived from the time series of contacts to defaulted clients and client reimbursements to the bank, help all algorithms better identify debtors with different repayment ability and/or commitment, and in general those with different recovery potential.     

General equilibrium impact of an energy-saving policy in the public sector

We analyse a disregarded environmental policy instrument: a switch in government expenditure away from energy (or other natural resources) and toward a composite good which includes energy-saving expenditure. We first develop two variants of an analytical general equilibrium model. A composite good is produced with constant returns to scale, and energy is imported or produced domestically with diminishing returns, yielding a differential rent to its owners. The government purchases energy and composite goods from private firms. Such a policy unambiguously increases employment. It also raises private consumption and welfare under two conditions: (i) it is not too costly and (ii) the initial share of the resource is smaller in public spending than in private consumption, or the difference is small enough. We then run numerically a model featuring both importation and domestic production of energy (oil, gas and electricity), for the OECD as a whole. Simulations show that employment, welfare and private consumption rise. We provide magnitudes for different parameter values. Earlier versions of this paper have benefited from conference participants at the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, International Society for Ecological Economics World Congress, CIRED seminar and EUREQua environmental economics seminar. We especially thank Michèle Sadoun and two anonymous referees. The usual disclaimer applies.     

Threshold models for trended time series

This paper presents the theoretical development of a new threshold autoregressive model based on trended time series. The theoretical arguments underlying the model are outlined and a nonlinear economic model is used to derive the specification of the empirical econometric model. Estimation and testing issues are considered and analysed. Additionally we apply the model to the empirical investigation of U.S. GDP.This paper is the result of work carried out for the author's Ph.D. thesis. I would like to thank Hashem Pesaran for his help, encouragement and insights during the preparation of this paper. I also thank Gary Koop and Sean Holly for helpful comments. Financial assistance from the Economic and Social Research Council is gratefully acknowledged.