Welfare Effects of Technological Convergence in Processed Food Industries

We develop a monopolistic competition model to investigate effects of international technological convergence on factor rewards, output composition, and welfare. Comparative static analysis indicates technological convergence improves the follower's—but impairs the leader's—international competitiveness. The leader's welfare improves unambiguously; the follower's welfare depends on the relative strength of convergence's income and terms-of-trade effects. We use data from seventeen food industries in thirty countries, 1993–2001, to test these analytical predictions. Evidence of convergence is found in thirteen of seventeen industries. Convergence lifts followers' relative wages and global value-added shares. Followers benefit from convergence's positive income effect. Leaders benefit from higher terms of trade.     

Perspectives on Natural Resources in the Global Economy: Polity Series Review

Polity's ‘Resources’ series is a set of scholarly books, each of them dealing with a single resource or resource‐based commodity from a generally global or international perspective. As of this writing, nine books have been published in the series, six of which I review here. The series is a welcome contribution to interdisciplinary and overall critical perspectives on the social and environmental dimensions and implications of the international appropriation, production and exchange of natural resources. While there is no clear disciplinary bent or theoretical foundation running across the volumes, together the books develop a transnational perspective, stressing the linkages between specific sites of appropriation and production, on the one hand, and broader political economic networks of processing, finance, coordination, commercial distribution and social regulation, on the other. The books should serve as valuable references to researchers in academic, government and non‐government institutional settings, but should also prove valuable for undergraduate teaching on contemporary natural resource industries and their social regulation.     

谈创意产业发展中的知识产权保护问题

创意产业作为以知识产权为核心资产的新产业门类,正在成为全球经济和现代产业发展的一个新亮点而备受关注。知识产权是创意产业发展的基础,发展创意产业必须加强对知识产权的保护,以保障创意主体的合法权益,激发创意产业发展的活力。     

广西三大产业与城镇居民可支配收入关系计量分析

本文通过建立广西三大产业的产值对城镇居民可支配收入的线性回归模型,来得到三大产业对居民可支配收入的影响大小。从而分析广西三大产业发展的现状以及需要解决的问题。     

对"东亚奇迹"的再思考——主导产业演进视角的历史剖析

东亚国家或地区战后先后进入持续的经济高速增长阶段,在不到半个世纪的时间内就完成了由工业化起步到基本实现工业化的转变。从经济史学的角度对日本和“亚洲四小龙”为代表的东亚地区的产业结构发展历程的分析表明,政府在造就奇迹的过程中扮演了不可或缺的角色。     

广东省流通服务业资本边际生产率变动趋势研究

为研究资本要素在广东省流通服务业中的使用和配置效率问题,首先运用永续盘存法估算出历年广东流通服务业中各行业以不变价计算的固定资本存量,再以收入法估算出历年行业的资本边际贡献份额,并计算了行业的不变价增加值,在此基础上估计出1993年~2003年10年间各行业的资本边际生产率。结果表明:这些行业的资本边际生产率在这10年间呈明显的上升趋势,即资本的使用效率在提高,但交通运输业的资本边际生产率偏低,且行业间的资本边际生产率差异增大,行业间资本的配置效率下降。     

Water as an investment: liquid yet illiquid!

The water industry is in great need of further large investments to address existing severe water shortages worldwide which requires the participation of private sector investors. This industry is heavily infrastructure based and is therefore saddled with fixed assets-in-place or illiquid assets. This exposes the industry to what is termed as ‘illiquidity risk’, and hence, investors in this industry should be compensated for bearing this risk with an appropriate return premium (i.e. extra return). In this study, we provide evidence as to whether illiquidity risk indeed significantly affects returns in this industry. We examine the case of all 76 firms that compose the five major global water indices. After controlling for other factors that impact on returns, our results suggest that asset illiquidity is positively associated with stock returns. Specifically, water firms with a larger proportion of illiquid assets-in-place are observed to have greater stock returns than those with a smaller proportion of illiquid assets. Our results have important implications for the financing of water-related projects particularly those which involve the participation of investors from the private sector.     

Offshoring and employment structure in the EU periphery: the case of Spain

The effects of offshoring of production have received a great deal of interest due to their implications on labour markets. However, the main theoretical predictions related to this issue are not always fulfilled in the empirical analysis; according to the Stolper–Samuelson theorem, there seems to be unanimous support for its effects in advanced countries whose production is relocated but not at all for recipient economies of the same. Additionally, there is a lack of empirical evidence in countries specialized in unskilled-labour tasks which are, at the same time, economies with higher relative wages in a global framework such as the Spanish economy. In this sense, the aim of this article is to analyse the effects of material offshoring in the relative composition of employment in the Spanish manufacturing industry during the period 1990–2007. Furthermore, we investigate the effects of immigrant labour and the temporary employment rate due to its increasing relevance in the Spanish economy during the period analysed. Using a generalized methods of moments (GMM) approach, our results suggest that, as opposed to most developed countries, offshoring in Spain has favoured the demand for blue-collar workers. In addition, we confirm that the increase in immigration and the increasing use of temporary contracts have enlarged the share of low-skilled workers.     

黑龙江森工林区接替产业发展评价

运用熵权灰色关联分析法对黑龙江省森工林区所辖4个林业管理局2012—2017年养殖业、绿色食品等5个接替产业综合发展水平进行评价,并运用耦合协调度模型测算接替产业的均衡水平。结果表明:不同林业管理局的5个接替产业均呈波动发展状态;伊春林业管理局的优势接替产业是养殖业、绿色食品、北药开发和工业,牡丹江林业管理局的优势接替产业是绿色食品,合江林业管理局的优势接替产业是服务业,松花江林业管理局没有显著的优势接替产业;接替产业的综合发展水平偏低导致其均衡水平不高,总体上由初步协调向中度协调发展。因此,各林业管理局应继续发展具有优势的接替产业,同时扶持相对薄弱的接替产业,并开发与引进新的接替产业。     

生产性服务业区域集聚测度及其适宜性研究——基于我国22个省市面板数据的分析

生产性服务业在一定区域范围内的集聚是区域服务业发展水平和竞争力的集中体现。选取国内22个省、市2005～2009年间生产性服务业增加值的面板数据,运用区位熵法和Theil指数模型计算出生产性服务业的区域集聚度及差异度,然后运用生态位评估模型进一步测算出生产性服务业区域集聚的适宜性。结果表明:(1)我国生产性服务业的区域集聚效应具有地域不均衡性;(2)我国生产性服务业整体集聚差异在2005～2009年间呈波动型变化,集聚差异总体较大;(3)除北京市外,其余各省、市生产性服务业集聚适宜性较低。