IT MAY BE OUR CURRENCY,BUT IT'S YOUR PROBLEM

The dollar's dominance of international transactions and role as a reserve currency is an exorbitant privilege that is a burden as well as a blessing for the US. It achieved this dominance early in the twentieth century, quite quickly in fact; it may also see that status change equally quickly were the world to move to a multipolar system of currencies. Among the most likely candidates for reserve currencies in such a world are the dollar, the euro, and the Chinese renminbi, Barry Eichengreen explained in his Butlin Lecture earlier in 2011.     

我国服务贸易现状、问题及其进一步发展的政策措施

本文以1989-2008年我国GDP、服务贸易进出口额与总额、各部门服务贸易进出口额的数据为样本,以我国服务贸易发展历程为鉴,从我国服务贸易进出口结构和贸易开放度等角度分析探讨了我国服务贸易进出口的现状以及存在的问题,提出一系列提高我国服务贸易竞争力最终提高其对我国经济增长贡献度的针对性政策措施和建议。     

湖南农产品加工贸易的现状及发展对策

发展农产品加工贸易,是提高农业综合效益和农民收入的重要途径。湖南农产品加工贸易产值占湖南加工贸易总额的30%,已成为湖南经济发展新的增长点。本文分析了湖南农产品加工贸易的发展现状及存在的问题,提出了促进农产品加工贸易快速健康发展的策略。     

ODS替代品现状及发展动向

本文对ODS替代品的现状及发展动向作了详尽描述，介绍了世界ODS替代品生产及技术情况，预测了今后的发展方向。     

Traders' Bidding Strategies on European Grain Export Refunds: An Analysis with Affiliated Signals

Using a multivariate distribution of traders' information with correlations, we specify the traders' bidding strategies on tenders of European soft wheat intervention stocks. We show that correlations may have opposing effects on the traders' bidding strategy, depending on their valuation of the grain. This structural approach allows us to estimate the traders' strategies using generalized method of moments procedures.     

Measuring the effectiveness of non-price export promotion using a supply-side approach

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of the Market Promotion Program (MPP) in increasing U.S. exports and benefitting U.S. agricultural producers and food processors. Export shipments are linked to producer welfare using Kohli's (1978) profit maximization (GNP function) approach to modeling international trade. Using estimated profit functions in conjunction with a synthetic export demand function for processed agricultural products, we compute changes in farm and food processing sector profits that result from alternative own-price and advertising elasticities of export demand with and without the MPP subsidy. This approach allows us to investigate aggregate welfare effects of nonprice promotion without requiring the difficult task of estimating the export demand effects of market promotion activities for numerous commodities and importing countries. First version received: April 1999/Final version received: June 2000     

“入世”对我国零售业的影响分析及对策探讨

加入WTO ,从短期来看 ,我国商业是需要付出一定代价的。但从长期成本来分析 ,它有利于我国充分借鉴发达国家在管理营销方式上获取“后发性优势”的经验 ,使我国商业企业能按照国际惯例进行经营管理 ,最终提升我国流通业的整体竞争力水平。     

The value of intellectual property rights to firms and society

Economists view intellectual property rights (IPRs) as policytools for encouraging innovation, but they recognize that theycan also inhibit competition. There are many types of IPRs andinstitutions concerned with their administration. We begin byoutlining how these complex and varied rights are supposed towork and how they interact with other characteristics of firmsand markets. We then survey the available literature on patents,trade marks, and copyright to assess the value of these IPRsto firms and the costs to firms of acquiring and defending theirrights. The paper concludes with suggestions for topics requiringfurther research to inform public policy better.     

闽台服务业合作和服务贸易发展的探讨

闽台发展服务业合作和服务贸易是互利双赢的,同时具有广阔的空间,需要共同努力,在竞争中建立交流和合作的平台。文章还对如何发展闽台的服务业合作和服务贸易并形成机制提出看法。     

旅游服务贸易的国际政治学分析

旅游服务贸易不仅是国家之间一种普遍的交往方式,而且也是国家利益构成的重要组成部分。在当今政治化时代,如何在相互依存度不断提升条件下实现旅游服务贸易与国际政治之间的良性互动,越来越成为各国政府和国际组织普遍关注的核心议题。