Government Consumption and Industrial Productivity: Scale and Compositional Effects

Within a production function framework in which government spending produces public goods which enter firms production functions, empirical tests using time series data spanning eleven countries and thirty industries find both the scale and the composition of government consumption spending to affect the level and the rate of growth of total factor productivity at the industry level.Jel Classification: H50, D24     

轨道交通对房价影响的范围及时间性研究——基于重庆轨道交通二号线的实证分析

基于重庆轨道交通二号线的实证分析,研究了其对周围房价的影响范围,结果表明其对大渡口区域的影响范围最大为2.5km,同时研究了轨道交通二号线对房价影响的时间性,发现轨道交通线路全面开工和全线竣工通车两个时点均是影响房价幅度的峰值点.     

CMM模型和我国软件业生产过程标准化

CMM模型是国际上最流行的一种软件生产过程标准。本文比较了国内外软件业生产过程标准化的现状,分析了阻碍我国软件业开展CMM评估的原因,并在此基础上,提出在我国推行CMM标准亟待解决的几个主要问题。     

上海世博会的乘数效应

本文主要运用投资乘数模型,对世博会为上海GDP的贡献进行了分析和预测,并对理论乘数效应在举办世博会中的制约因素进行了讨论,为上海市政府的宏观调控提出建议。     

Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service Industries

This paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up–to–date survey that provides a significant discussion on data, as well as on the core methods of measuring efficiency and productivity. First, the readers are introduced to the measurement of partial and total factor productivity growth. Different parametric and non–parametric approaches to the productivity measurement in the context of static, dynamic and firm–specific modelling are discussed. Second, we survey the econometric approach to efficiency analysis. The issues of modelling, distributional assumptions and estimation methods are discussed assuming that cross–sectional or panel data are available. Third, the relationship between outsourcing and productivity growth in manufacturing and services is discussed. The correspondence between a number of hypotheses and empirical findings are examined. Examples of varieties of relevant empirical applications, their findings and implications are presented. Fourth, measurement of inputs and outputs in manufacturing and services are discussed. Finally, to promote useful research, a number of factors important to the analysis of outsourcing, efficiency and productivity growth in the service sector are summarised.     

Volatility in the knowledge economy

Summary. We seek to explain the economic volatility of the last 6 years, in particular the rapid expansion and contraction of the knowledge sectors. Our hypothesis is that these sectors amplify the business cycle due to their increasing returns to scale, growing faster than others in an upswing and contracting faster in a downswing. To test this hypothesis we postulate a general equilibrium model with two sectors: one with increasing returns that are external to the firm and endogenously determined - the knowledge sector - and the other with constant returns to scale. We introduce a new measure of volatility of output, a real beta, and derive a resolving equation, from which we prove that the increasing return sectors exhibit more volatility then other sectors. We validate the main results on US macro economic data of real GDP by industry (2-3 digits SIC codes) of the 1977-2001 period, and provide policy conclusions.Received: 18 March 2002, Revised: 16 February 2004, JEL Classification Numbers: D5, D58, E10, L50, L52, O38, O51.Correspondence to: Graciela Chichilnisky     

我国通货紧缩的原因及治理

通货紧缩是影响当前我国经济走势的一个重要因素。本文从分析近年来我国价格变动的原因入手,从消费需求、投资、出口等几个方面阐述了影响价格走势的因素。对通货紧缩与通货膨胀进行了比较和界定,提出从改善供给质量、刺激消费需求、促进投资需求等几个方面来治理通货紧缩的思路和措施。     

阴山北麓农牧交错带观光农业资源优势与开发构想--以武川为例

随着经济的发展,在人们生活条件改善和物质水平提高的同时,城乡居民对高质量的生存环境和丰富的业余生活提出了强烈要求,观光农业作为一种全新的旅游方式受到了人们的青睐。内蒙古武川县属阴山北麓农牧交错带,县境内以缓坡丘陵为主,结合当地的带状种植,形成优美的田园风光,且地理条件优越,具有很大的旅游潜力。本文从武川县发展观光农业旅游的意义、区位、资源及政府扶持等优势出发,分析了在武川县建立观光农业园区的可行性,并提出建立田园景观观光区、采摘区、高新技术农业园区和人文历史名胜旅游区的开发构想和建议。     

影响我国农民市场主体地位确立的制度因素

拥有自主产权是农民成为真正市场主体的必要条件,包括诸如组织制度、户籍制度、金融制度、社会保障制度等在内的产权支持系统是影响农民成为市场主体的充分条件。市场主体地位的高低在某种意义上是由经济实体在参与市场经济活动时所拥有的权利束决定的。推进农村经济市场化的过程就是加强农民市场主体地位的过程。进一步深化农村体制改革,从根本上消除不合理制度对农民的束缚,使农民成为真正的市场主体是解决当前“三农”问题的根本出路。     

三峡库区第三产业发展与城镇功能恢复重建的基本思路探析

本文从优化三峡库区产业结构,合理布局三峡库区第三产业,提高商贸流通业现代化水平,全方位拓展三峡旅游业,大力发展非公有制经济,优化调整库区网点与业态,加大招商引资和对口支援力度,大力发展劳务经济,构建功能完备各具特色的三峡库区城镇市政设施系统和社会事业发展系统,落实优惠扶持政策等方面,探析了三峡库区第三产业发展与城镇功能恢复重建及完善提升的基本思路。