Institutional Quality and Public Debt Accumulation: An Empirical Analysis

The question of public debt management for both developed and developing economies has generated an enormous amount of political as well as academic interest. This study examines how governance affects public debt accumulation in the MENA countries during the 1996–2015 period. The six Worldwide Governance indicators (voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence/terrorism, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption) were used to measure the quality of governance in these countries. The results show that only three governance indicators support well the hypothesis that poor governance leads to higher accumulation of MENA public debt. Moreover, the estimates suggest a significant indirect impact of bad governance operating via decreased GDP growth. These findings have important implications for policy makers of these countries, which are currently facing major fiscal and external imbalances due to the high cost of war and terrorist attacks, low oil prices and a decline in trade. Sound public debt management represents an urgent task especially that public debt management problems often find their origins in the lack of attention paid by policymakers to the costs of bad governance and weak macroeconomic management.     

资本市场变迁及运行效率相关研究评析

资本市场变迁及运行效率是中外学者研究的重点，形成了许多理论流派，其中信息空间理论为资本市场制度变迁提供了新的分析框架。同时，中国资本市场正处在发展建设之中，亟需有效的理论指导其发展。然而，中国资本市场的不完备性和特殊性导致诸多理论的应用存在局限性。而信息是各理论流派研究的核心，只是角度和侧重点不同，故信息空间理论可为研究资本市场变迁和制度选择提供新的研究思路。     

支付制度、医生的行为与药物经济学的应用

制度影响人们的行为选择,引发不同的效率结果。在医疗卫生市场中,不同的支付制度加上一些其他经济因素,使得追求收益最大化的医生具有不同的目标收益函数和行为选择。这些行为选择对社会而言可能具有效率,也可能无效率。通过比较不同支付制度下医生的行为选择及其是否符合效率准则,我们能够发现对药物经济学应用有利的一些制度因素。     

Structural transformation and productivity growth in India during 1960–2010

In this paper, we examine the role of structural change and sectoral productivity growth in explaining the aggregate productivity of India relative to the United Sates during 1960–2010. We set up a simple two sector general equilibrium model and calibrate it to fit the structural transformation of United States. Our calibrated model for India highlights the relative importance of agricultural productivity growth in explaining its slow process of catching up in terms of aggregate productivity. We show that India could have progressed at a much faster rate and closed a substantial part of its aggregate productivity gap if its agricultural sector had grown at a rate at par with the United States. It is India's relative productivity growth in the non-agricultural sector that explains all the recent success in its closing the aggregate productivity gap with the United States. We also found that an elimination of relative distortion in agriculture in India could result into a modest improvement in the aggregate labour productivity.     

Explaining the economic trajectories of civilizations: The systemic approach

A civilization constitutes a durable social system of complementary traits. Some of the complementarities of any given civilization are between elements of “material” life and ones commonly treated as integral to “culture.” Identifying the mechanisms responsible for a civilization's observed trajectory involves, therefore, causal relationships that cross the often-postulated “cultural–material” divide. Complementarities make it difficult to transplant institutions across civilizations on a piecemeal basis. They imply that reforms designed to jump-start an economy will fail unless they are comprehensive. Civilizational analysis can benefit, therefore, from attention to institutional complementarities, including ones involving both cultural and material variables.     

高速铁路建造技术国家工程实验室产学研一体化模式研究

阐述了我国高速铁路建设急需科技创新的时代背景,介绍了高速铁路建造技术国家工程实验室的产学研一体化运作模式以及取得的初步建设成效。     

制度设计应遵循的原则和基本要求

制度设计应遵循普适性原则、效率原则、交易费用最小化原则、激励相容原则、和谐性原则及帕累托改进原则。制度设计要合理进行制度的资源配置,提高制度效益,同时要注重与意识形态和惯例相结合。制度有其生存的环境,不能简单地移植。制度变迁存在着路径依赖现象,因而初始制度设计至关重要。     

建立我国贸易调整援助制度的构想

随着我国加快融入全球贸易自由化的进程,日趋激烈的进口竞争致使国内相关产业的安全问题越来越突出,所以我国需要制定新的贸易制度以有效应对因进口贸易自由化而产生的产业损害和结构调整问题。作为制度选择之一,美国贸易调整援助制度给我国带来了重要的经验启示,某些具体规则对构建符合国情的TAA制度具有重要的借鉴价值。在当下加快产业结构调整的背景下,构建我国TAA制度不仅是必要的,而且是可行的。因此,必须对该制度的几个基础性、根本性的问题进行深入研究,从立法定位、立法目标、基本原则与立法模式的角度提出制度设计的基本设想。     

中国城市农民工社会资本现状分析及解决途径

我国城市农民工处于城市边缘地带，社会资本占有贫乏。造成这种状况既有制度原因、城市居民的价值观念原因，亦有农民工自身的原因。我们应改变制度，改变城市居民价值观念，提高农民工综合素质，加快发展经济和加快城市化建设以增加城市农民工的补偿资本。     

广西非金融企业债券融资现状及发展建议

广西非金融企业债券融资工具偏少,发行规模小,债券融资占比低,发展缓慢。究其原因是多方面的,有企业发行主体本身的内部因素,也有国家宏观政策环境和广西债券发行环境等方面的外部因素,文章在分析了影响广西非金融企业债券融资的主要相关因素的基础上提出了相应的发展建议。