Foreign direct investments,institutional quality,and economic growth

Institutional quality is considered to be an important factor in boosting economic growth of a country. This paper explores the role of institutional quality in economic growth and more specifically the role it plays via the channel of foreign direct investments. This paper uses a larger dataset of 104 countries and applies GMM estimation method to a dynamic panel data to evaluate the direct impact of institutional quality on economic growth and the indirect impact of institutional quality on economic growth through enhancing the FDI-induced economic growth. This paper provides evidence that both FDI inflows and institutional quality cause stronger economic growth. The FDI-led growth, however, was only experienced in the low and middle-income countries. In these countries, better institutional quality was also found to be enhancing the FDI-led economic growth. An important finding of this paper is that in the high-income countries, FDI was found to slow down the economic growth. The results are robust and consistent for individual institutional quality indicators and controlling for endogeneity.     

农民工留城意愿影响因素分析——基于我国七省市的实证研究

农民工留城对推进我国城镇化进程具有重要意义。对我国7省市的实地调研分析结果表明,性别、年龄、文化程度、职业等个人特征,住房类型、有无农地、社会保险状况等经济因素,子女读书地和配偶工作地等家庭及社会因素,对农民工留城意愿有显著影响;而农民工工作地、在城市居住时间和就业状况等因素对农民工留城意愿没有显著影响。     

Yen or Yuan? The law of one price and economic integration in Asia

Using highly comparable local retail prices of 146 goods and services across 18 Asian countries over 1990–2014, we analyse price dispersion and test convergence to the law of one price (LOP ) for these prices around three price benchmarks—Asia‐average, Japan and China prices—to gain insight about market integration in overall Asia as well relative integration of Asian economies to Japan and China. Cross‐Asia price dispersion around China‐price benchmark, for both tradables and non‐tradables, diminishes significantly over the sample period whereas that around Japan‐price benchmark increases considerably, particularly after the 2008 crisis. There is convergence to the LOP for about half of goods and services in China‐ and Asia‐average price benchmarks. The percentage of convergent prices is significantly smaller in Japan‐price benchmark. Direct estimates of the convergence speed parameter also confirm these observations. Overall, our results show evidence of increasing economic integration in Asia in the last two decades. The process of price convergence appears to be driven by the emergence of China as the centre of economic gravity in the region. There is much room for improvement as economic integration in Asia is still far below that in Europe in the 1990s or USA in the 1980s.     

Factor allocation,economic growth and unbalanced regional development in China

On the basis of development accounting techniques and a factor misallocation framework, we use panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2013 to assess how factor allocation affects economic growth and unbalanced regional development in China. In particular, we decompose economic growth into three parts, namely sector productivity (SP ), factor market efficiency (FME ) and factor endowment (FE ). We then conduct counterfactual analyses to investigate the short and long‐run roles of factor allocation in the income distribution across provinces. The results show that SP , FME and FE can explain 23%, 8.5% and 68.5% of economic growth, while labour, capital and energy reallocation account for aggregate productivity growth of about 47%, −4.8% and −0.1%. Furthermore, when the factors are efficiently allocated, transferring labour (capital, energy) from agriculture (service, industry) to the other sectors will increase the income per capita by 29.5% and 42.5% in the short and long term. Meanwhile, efficient factor allocation accounts for 32% and 29.7% of aggregate productivity and reduces the income variation across provinces by 25.5% and 23% in the short and long run, respectively.     

现代企业经济效益审计的应用研究

文章通过实证研究,从现代企业经济效益审计的必要性人手探讨现代企业经济效益审计的概念框架,通过分析现代企业经济效益审计的现状,结合现代企业经济效益审计实务中的优势、重点与难点及应注意的问题,提出现代企业经济效益审计的价值探究.     

兰渝铁路辐射带的经济差异及原因

以人均GDP为主要测度指标,采用GeoDA软件提供的空间分析方法,以兰渝铁路沿线120公里范围内的主要行政单元为研究对象,分析了兰渝铁路辐射带的经济空间分异状况。结果表明:辐射带经济发展水平差异显著,在地理上存在较强的空间依赖性;经济发展的热点区域位于重庆境内,是整个铁路辐射带内的唯一辐射中心,另一个端点城市兰州的辐射能力弱;区内无二级节点城市引导经济发展,因此随着距离的增加,重庆的经济辐射能力呈现出明显的衰减效应。在此基础上,从资源禀赋、政策体制、投资环境、区域软实力等角度分析了影响兰渝铁路辐射带经济差异的主要原因。     

物流联盟建立的经济学分析

我国经济的高速发展要求相匹配的物流企业出现,由于我国物流行业起步较晚,发展还处于起步阶段。针对物流行业要求和实际不搭配的行业现状,文中主要分析物流联盟建立的优点,并用经济学的分析方法给予简单的论证,并在此基础上对物流联盟的建立提出建议和对策。     

A study of the non‐economic determinants in tourism demand

Traditionally, many studies have attempted to use economic demand models. This paper stresses on the influence of non‐economic factors on tourism demand. Some researchers have suggested that tourists from different origins have various cultural and nationalistic backgrounds, and they may interpret visual imagery and experiences differently. Aligning with this suggestion, we have investigated different underlying factors of tourism demand from four continents (Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania). Statistical data are collected from international organisations and 135 countries were covered. Our results showed that there are differences and similarities among the factors in determining the tourism demand. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

经济管理综合实验中心运行工作的探索

围绕经济管理综合实验中心运行的工作内容、工作流程、组织机构、管理制度和团队建设进行了讨论,并对各环节的优化提出了设计思路。     

绿色营销的外部性分析及对策研究

只有了解我国企业开展绿色营销过程中存在的"市场失灵"问题,并运用经济学的理论对绿色营销存在的外部性进行分析,才能掌握绿色生产和绿色消费的正外部性,及建立开展绿色营销过程中绿色产品与非绿色产品市场配置模型.最后,在外部性消除的经济原理基础上,正确认识消除绿色营销正外部性的政策措施.