Alternative farming and collective goals: Towards a powerful relationships for future food policies

Based on the significant amount of literature on the concept of spatial, ecological, and social embeddedness in the Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) research, this study describes the main dynamics related to the involvement of non-conventional farmers in their collective ideas and actions.With a comparison between two European regions: Sardinia and the Community of Madrid, the paper identifies different styles of behaviour among organic producers, whether or not supervised by a control body, and highlights the differences and similarities regarding their ideas about how alternative agriculture has an impact on the environment as well as society. Eco-economies and ecopreneurship are also considered. The aim is to see if, and to what extent, these ideas have a collective character, going beyond the limits of the single farm to reach a regional scale and, thus, if there is a basis for the development of future food-related planning policies. Through the information provided by semi-structured interviews, farmers have been divided into categories according to their degree of embeddedness, described through the main themes that emerged during the interviews. Every farmer has been included in only one category according to his or her main preference, which does not imply the ab-sence of a positive attitude towards other categories.The study aims to contribute to the understanding of how AFN values and methods can boost the improvement of biodiversity and landscape conservation through collective actions which have the power to boost and develop rural initiative at a regional scale.     

地方财政行为是否驱动了中国贸易 收支的动态调整*——基于异质性动态调整模型的分析

本文利用1997-2013年中国省际层面的面板数据，借助异质性动态调整模型从动态视角考察了地方财政行为对中国贸易收支调整速度的影响。研究结果显示：（1）平均而言，在地方财政行为的驱动下，中国实际贸易收支向最优水平动态调整的速度约为0045。总体表明，地方财政行为对中国贸易收支的驱动性影响较弱，引致实际贸易收支向最优水平调整的速度也较为缓慢。（2）财政支出分权的强化会制约贸易收支的调整速度，贸易收支调整呈现“相对惰性”。财政收入分权的提高和预算内财政支出的扩张能够加快实际贸易收支向最优贸易收支调整的速度，助力贸易收支实现平滑调整。预算外财政支出和财政收入的变化对调整速度则不会产生显著性影响。（3）贸易收支的调整速度呈现显著的区域异质性。本文的结论表明，现阶段中国要实现贸易收支的平衡调整路径，中央及地方政府必须把握好财政行为与贸易收支的动态联动关系。     

中国传统造园模式的解读与启示

在城市进入大规模的拆迁与重整的今天，人类对“家园”的认知尤为重要。“什么环境空间组合才是我们需要的家园，什么样的空间形式才是适合我们居住的呢？”无疑，这是个值得深思和探究的课题。从传统造园的三个基本形式来展开分析解读，并试图找出一条属于全人类的、未来的、生态的、和谐的城市“家园”的发展之路。     

Quantitative Analysis of Foreign Trade and Environmental Efficiency in China

This article analyzes the relationships among trade, the economy, and environmental quality in China. First, in the context of these relationships, the Super-SBM model is used to calculate the environmental efficiencies of thirty Chinese provinces and cities to obtain the degrees of regional disparity. Second, China’s provincial panel data from 2003 and 2012 are used to establish an influential factor indicator system of environmental efficiency. A section-weighted fixed effect model then provides insights about influential factors such as spatial heterogeneity. Third, the article establishes a variable coefficient model to identify the relationships among the objects of the study and divides the Chinese regions into four types. The suggestions include enhancing environmental and business regulations to ensure equilibrium between trade, the environment, and local economies.     

延安市姚店工业区绿地系统环境景观规划设计

设计依托结合姚店工业区总体规划,在充分考虑现有自然条件的前提下,挖掘当地工业历史和文化,营建与新区发展相适应的具有文化内涵并突出生态型的绿地环境景观系统。为工业区可持续发展打造坚实的物质和文化基础。     

An alternate approach to modeling the slack season provision of guided tours to tourists

We discuss an approach to modeling the slack season provision of guided tours to tourists that accounts for the twin phenomena of stochastic demand and tourist heterogeneity but is different from the way in which this problem has been modeled in the extant tourism literature. Our discussion uses the theory of discrete-time Markov chains and it models the slack season from a tourist demand perspective. Specifically, we first study a case in which the wait plus tour or the excursion time of an arriving tourist is exponentially distributed with a fixed mean. Next, we focus on a scenario in which the excursion time is exponentially distributed with one of two possible fixed means and these two means arise with specific probabilities.     

金融结构演变、货币政策与银行风险承担异质性

基于2002-2017年165家银行的面板数据,本文采用可行广义最小二乘(FGLS)方法实证检验金融结构演变视角下货币政策对银行风险承担渠道的影响。研究发现:金融结构的变化对银行风险承担具有显著影响,随着直接融资占比的上升,银行资产端风险承担显著减少,但负债端风险承担显著增加;控制住金融结构的作用之后,货币政策对银行资产端风险承担和负债端风险承担也具有显著的异质性影响,具体来说,价格型货币政策的紧缩使得银行资产端风险承担显著减少而导致银行负债端风险承担显著增加,数量型货币政策的紧缩则使得银行资产端风险承担和负债端风险承担同时减少;此外,货币政策与金融结构对银行风险承担具有显著的交互影响,随着直接融资占比的上升,价格型货币政策工具对银行资产端风险承担的影响减弱,对银行负债端风险承担的影响没有表现出显著变化,数量型货币政策工具对银行资产端风险承担和负债端风险承担的影响都受到削弱。研究结论的政策含义对货币当局、监管部门以及商业银行都具有重要意义。     

高管团队异质性、CEO权力与企业成本粘性的实证分析

企业成本粘性正成为实证会计领域一个重要关注的话题,过高的企业成本粘性不利于企业价值极大化。以我国上市公司为样本,对高管特质、CEO权力与成本粘性间的关系进行实证分析。研究发现：团队年龄异质性、教育水平异质性、任期异质性会显著增加企业成本,但专业背景异质性有利于降低企业成本;在考虑CEO权力后,CEO权力的扩大有利于协调高管团队意见,降低成本;其在与高管特质四大因素交互后,团队年龄异质性、教育水平异质性、任期异质性、专业背景异质性受到了削弱或强化。要降低企业的成本粘性,应多注意团队成员的年龄差异、高管的受教育水平、任期以及团队的专业背景;同时也要重视对CEO的赋权,除重视与考察其个人履历与能力外,还应通过契约的方式赋予其管理企业更合适的权力。     

数字经济对区域经济高质量发展的影响研究

推动数字经济发展,是我国在当下推动经济转型,促进高质量发展的重要战略。本文基于2012~2019年省级面板数据,构建双向固定效应模型,运用基准回归、异质性检验和分位数回归的方法进行实证研究发现,数字经济助推经济高质量发展的同时还存在地区差异,对西部影响最大,中部影响最小,而数字经济的发展水平又受到产业结构、技术创新等因素影响。因此,本文针对不同地区差异分别提出建议,从而促进持续更新发展理念,以创新驱动发展,优化产业结构为数字经济提供良好环境,以期推动数字经济建设发展。     

全球数字贸易规则博弈态势与焦点

社区公园是老年人户外活动的主要场所。研究社区 公园空间与老年人户外活动行为的关系,对于满足老年人活 动需求、应对人口老龄化问题具有重要意义。以南京市郑和 公园为研究对象,在实地测绘的基础上,定义公园空间的类 型,并分析各类空间的构成特征。选取公园中5个样本空间进 行观测,从时间和空间2个维度分析老年人公园活动的行为特 征。针对占公园活动人数绝大多数的8种活动,运用数据分析 和ArcGIS技术对行为与空间的关联性进行分析,结合访谈和 Nvivo质性分析发现,空间的尺度、围合性与开敞性、是否受 干扰、景观质量、庇护性是老年人活动空间选择的主要动因; 座椅、遮阴要素、大面积铺装、照明设施、置物设施等则是老 年人需要的空间要素。