Decomposition of GDP Growth in Some European Countries and the United States

Summary  The composition of economic growth can be analyzed in two different ways. In the ‘traditional method’ for the decomposition of GDP growth, total imports are deducted from exports. This approach underestimates the importance of exports for the growth in GDP, and overestimates the importance of domestic expenditure categories. In the alternative methodology proposed in this paper, imports are allocated to all expenditure categories. Although this ‘import-adjusted method’ is more complex than the ‘traditional method’, it has the considerable advantage that the contributions of the expenditure categories to GDP growth provide a better understanding of why GDP growth decelerates or accelerates. The methodology and data requirements for calculating the import content of final demand, and the implications for the decomposition of real GDP growth, are discussed. For six European countries and the United States, the paper shows that applying the alternative methodology provides rather a different economic story.      

以红色旅游促进新农村建设——关于安徽省肥东县红色旅游发展的思考

红色旅游是我国新兴的专项旅游产品。本文以安徽省肥东县为例，说明红色旅游与新农村建设的关系，指出红色旅游开发中存在的问题，并提出怎样将红色旅游作为当地新农村建设的突破口。     

中国住户生产核算:基本范畴与核算方法

住户部门是国民经济活动的重要参与者,住户生产核算是国民经济核算重要内容之一。本文依据SNA1993,结合中国的具体国情,界定了中国住户生产核算的主体和生产范围,在此基础上构建出住户生产核算简单账户、综合账户和投入产出矩阵范式,并延伸出相应的指标和分析方法。     

Writing and publishing important scientific articles: A reviewer's perspective

The article discusses various complex and interrelated quality issues mediating reviewers' expectations and standards. Authors must meet or exceed reviewers' and editors' expectations of providing convincing arguments and support of the importance and relevancy of the research topic and questions, evidence of scientific rigorousness, and meaningful and usefulness of the findings making substantial and/or incremental contributions to the scientific body of marketing knowledge. Marketing scholars struggling to publish their research in high-quality marketing journals will definitely benefit from the insights in this article.     

经济学类两本期刊英语论文标题的对比研究

本文探讨了经济学类两本期刊的英语论文标题的句法结构以及2004至2008年的演变趋势。为此,建立了一个含有548个标题的语料库。本文采取的方法是将标题划分为五类:名词词组型,复合型,句子型,动词词组型以及介词词组型。并且进一步分析了名词词组型,复合型标题的内部结构。研究结果表明,两本期刊英语论文标题存在一定的差异性。本研究的意义在于为经济学同行撰写英语论文标题提供参考。     

浅析《道路交通安全法》第76条在第三者责任险中的司法运用

新交通法实施以来,因道路交通损害赔偿纠纷的案件急剧增加。由于缺少配套的法律规定和司法解释,各地法院在运用交通法第76条审理案件时出现了不同的理解,并且与相关法律尤其是《保险法》出现了部分立法冲突!对第三者责任险的不同理解使得矛盾凸显!在司法实践中也出现了不少问题,但本质上是由于第76条自身缺陷造成的。本文根据现有的法律法规,从法理的角度分析,提出解决问题的办法。     

产品分类下的石墨产业链分析及发展建议

天然石墨具有金属和非金属双重特性,是重要的战略矿物资源,随着科学技术进步石墨产品开发与应用的技术水平不断提升,石墨产品种类繁多,其种类数量可以说成千上万。其产业链也不断拓展与向下游不断延伸。本文针对石墨产品种类繁多,产业链不断拓展与延伸,从石墨产业为资源型产业、石墨产品分类等角度对石墨产业链构成进行了分析,针对产业发展提出了相应建议。     

Categories,Identities, and Cultural Classification: Moving Beyond a Model of Categorical Constraint

Categorization processes have gained currency in organizational theory. Categories are endemic to organizations and markets, serving as touchstones for organizational identity claims and for audience attention, legitimation, and valuation. Durand and Paolella argue for an expansion of current perspectives on categories, particularly that of prototype theory. Although we agree in spirit, we advocate an expansion of their perspective, which seems to focus primarily on the cognitive aspects of categorization and the force of their constraint, particularly at the individual level of analysis. We suggest three revisions to Durand and Paolella's arguments in order to extend the conversation. First, we advocate that categorization processes might usefully be understood by socio‐cultural perspectives that explicitly consider the role of audiences and the embeddedness of categories in wider classification systems. Second, we connect categorization processes to identity formation and maintenance at the levels of both the organization and the market. Third, we move beyond the constraining power of categories to consider their generative capabilities in processes of emergence and change. Overall, we discuss these in the context of organizational identities and cultural classification systems.     

Bringing product and consumer ecosystems to the strategic forefront

The widespread adoption of technology and electronic media has dramatically altered the set of products consumers compare before making a purchase decision. Online platforms have succeeded at drawing linkages among products by highlighting those that are preferred, evaluated, or purchased together. However, despite the increase in both product and customer inter-connectedness across markets, managers continue to make decisions based largely on the dynamics of competition within narrow product categories. In this article, we raise the call for a migration from a category-focused mindset to an ecosystem-focused strategic mindset that acknowledges and accounts for the network of related or unrelated entities that a specific product resides within. We illustrate the importance of this shift using examples of preference, choice, and customer networks from popular online platforms. We then discuss the impact of the shift in strategic mindset toward ecosystems on competitive structure analysis, market research, brand footprint analysis, intra-band ecosystems, promotion planning, new product development, customer valuation, strategic alliances, and market segmentation.     

Categorizing Neighborhoods: The Invention of ‘Sensitive Areas’ in France and ‘Historic Districts’ in the United States

This essay offers a reflexive return to two research projects to demonstrate the value of Bourdieu's emphasis on the symbolic for the analysis of contemporary urban transformation. Bourdieu's insistence that we track the social genesis and diffusion of spatial categories of thought and action directs us to the empirical study of the struggles between agents and organizations that promote and/or oppose these categories, as well as the political, economic and other interests animating the agents. A retracing of the parallel invention of the ‘at‐risk neighborhood’ (quartier sensible) coined for and targeted by French urban policy since the late 1980s and the emergence of ‘historic’ or ‘diverse’ neighborhoods touted by gentrifying residents, cultural organizations and real estate agents in the United States since the 1960s challenges misleading oppositions between materiality and representations that often underpin and cramp urban research.