Should the monetary policy rule be different in a financial crisis?

This article reviews the finding that standard loss functions in output and inflation are higher during discretionary periods than in periods during which monetary policy is described by a rule, such as the Taylor rule. It shows that the finding is consistent with earlier research, but argues that we really do not know if the Taylor rule would have improved performance during the recent financial crisis. The article then considers modifications of policy rules to deal with changes in interest rate spreads, credit aggregates and banks׳ balance sheets.     

探析建筑形式美的法则

建筑具有技术与艺术的双重性,建筑形式美的规律是所有艺术性建筑的基础,本文从尺度、平衡对称、节奏、多样统一、形体等方面探析建筑形式美的法则,旨在对研究建筑形式美得规律有所启发。     

Memoryless Reigns of the “Sons of Heaven”

Human lifetimes have increasing failure rates; as people age (beyond early childhood) they are more likely to die. Viewing the succession of Chinese Emperors as a statistical ensemble we show that, unlike lifetimes, their reigns ceased at a constant rate for over two millennia, unaffected by elapsed time. In fact reign lengths of the “Sons of Heaven”, as the Chinese Emperors were known, followed a memoryless exponential distribution with a 10-year half-life. Becoming emperor not only influenced the duration of remaining life, but length of rule was independent of age at ascent. We propose an explanation for the observed exponentiality using asymptotic results from the theory of stationary stochastic processes.     

对《中共中央关于全面推进依法治国若干重大问题的决定》的几点思考

党的十八届四中全会通过的《中共中央关于全面推进依法治国若干重大问题的决定》就依法治国提出许多新的思想观点,从实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的高度阐述依法治国的重大意义,把习近平总书记的系列重要讲话精神首次作为依法治国的指导思想,从依据宪法法律治国理政和依据党内法规管党治党两方面阐明了党依法执政的新内涵,提出了"人民是依法治国的主体和力量源泉"的新论点,全面阐述了依法治国的重大任务。     

浅谈建筑设计中的艺术形式感

建筑作为一种实用艺术,不仅要体现出适用的特点,而且要有美感,要满足人们精神感受上的审美要求。建筑作为艺术门类的一种,遵循和谐和多样统一的美学基本原则。作为一名建筑师来说,创造符合功能的形式美建筑是不可忽视的。     

我国现阶段加强城市社区管理法治化建设探析

城市社区管理法治化建设是我国社会主义法治建设的重要组成部分,是构建和谐社会、维护社会稳定、繁荣的必然要求。本文从马克思主义法学视角对我国现阶段加强城市社区管理法治化建设的重要性、面临的主要问题以及逐步推动城市社区管理法治化进程的主要路径等问题进行了探析。     

Courts and Firm Investments in Real Property

The legal environment and rule of law are important for business, but existing studies often treat rule of law holistically. This article examines the role of courts, specifically the speed of court decisions, the enforcement of edicts, and the impartiality of decision-making as perceived by firms of various sizes, and the impact this has on firm investments in real property. The article analyzes a panel of 6,300 firms from 27 countries in the period from 2002 to 2009 to find that (i) firm size affects perceptions positively, while (ii) paying bribes affects perceptions negatively. At the same time, (iii) a firm’s connections to the government have no apparent impact. More importantly, while all three components have a positive correlation with the amount firms invest in land and machinery, the speed of courts has the greatest significance and the highest marginal effect. Firms perceiving courts to be quick invest nearly four times as much as the average real property investment. This finding suggests that policymakers should focus on reducing backlogs in the court system, perhaps by encouraging more arbitration or staffing more clerks.     

坚持依法行政加强人权保障和救济

在当代中国社会政治经济发展中，保证政府权力在法律范围内行政，以保障公民之正当权益，加强人权保障和救济，具有重要意义。鉴于当前行政执法在人权保障问题方面还存在不少问题，行政法制建设应当把保障和促进公民权利作为核心内容。一是要加强行政法制建设，提高人权保障法制化水平；二是要严格依法行政，提高人权保障意识；三是重视侵权责任追究，落实侵权法律救济。     

Are property rights enough?Re‐evaluating a big‐bang claim1

We investigate the claim made by proponents of the big‐bang strategy that the establishment of property rights in an economy in transition creates its own demand for the enforcement of laws to protect those rights. Our model contains a government engaging in activities to accomplish objectives that depend on public support for the enforcement of the rule of law and agents who interpret the level of activities of the government as indications of the government's intent to enforce the rule of law. Agents, using the level of government activities as an input to their decisions, choose whether to support the government's objectives. We establish conditions under which the level of activities chosen by the government maximizes its benefits, and simultaneously induces the constituency to support enforcement of the rule of law. These conditions provide a basis for the argument for the implementation of the big‐bang policy. When these conditions do not hold, however, we show that the level of activities that maximizes the government's benefits may have only a minor impact on support for the enforcement of the rule of law. Two characteristics play an important role in these conditions: the initial level of crime and the types of activities the government chooses to undertake. We present examples showing that the initial level of crime has the more dramatic effect on subsequent support for the rule of law.     

论中西马哲学背景下中国法治理念的基础

中国社会受到中西马不同哲学思想的影响,三种哲学思想在长期的相互冲突与融合过程中,与中国的具体实践相结合,逐渐成为中国社会意识的共同的组成部分。如何确立适合中国的法治模式及其法哲学层面的理论基础,是中国在法治进程中必须解决的问题。通过对中西马背景下中国社会意识形态的分析,探讨其内涵,并提出以马克思主义历史唯物主义为方法论的公共利益至上的法哲学思考,为中国的法治理念的渊源提供了符合中国具体实际的法哲学基础。