Examining relationships among perceived benefit,tourist experience and satisfaction: the context of intelligent sharing bicycle

Intelligent sharing bicycle has been a new fashion in China and appeals to more and more tourists. To better understand the experience of tourists traveling on sharing bicycle, this study explored the influence of perceived benefit of sharing bicycle on different perceived experiences, including escape, entertainment, esthetic and educational experiences. The relationships between these experiences and perceived satisfaction were also tested. An effective questionnaire survey was conducted for 296 tourists in Chengdu, China. The results of the study show that perceived benefit significantly relates to all the four dimensions of experience. However, only entertainment and esthetic experience seem to affect tourist satisfaction in this context. The relationship among educational experience, escape experience and tourist satisfaction are insignificant. Theoretical and practical implications of the study results are discussed for further research.     

东北老工业基地改革的路径依赖--兼论国企改革与制度刚性

西方企业繁荣的重要原因是企业能根据市场机制所反应的信息,调整生产和经营方向,以最快的速度满足消费者需求,并能根据市场的繁荣和萧条,决定企业的规模大小。我国国有企业的改革却受到国家制度刚性的约束,不能根据市场机制所反应的信息调节企业的规模大小,其改革往往滞后,渐渐失去竞争力。东北老工业基地国有企业改革应该以此为鉴。     

Are Asian Sovereign Wealth Funds Different?

Sovereign wealth funds have become a prominent feature of the international financial landscape. However, legitimate concerns have been raised about these funds. Many of those concerns can be addressed via increased accountability and transparency by the funds. The Santiago Principles are a good start in doing so. My sovereign wealth funds scoreboard points to areas where these Principles can be improved. At the same time, the OECD effort to address concerns from the host‐country side has not resulted in the erection of new barriers to that form of cross‐border investment, but the OECD failed to reverse the creeping financial protectionism of the past decade. Because of their size and the source of their funding, some Asian funds stand out. As a result, those funds will be held to a higher standard of accountability and transparency.     

Building strong brands in Asia: selecting the visual components of image to maximize brand strength

Asian brands have often struggled to develop quality images. The visual aspects of branding have received little attention on how they might be used to strengthen brand perceptions in Asia. Guidelines for designing visual brand stimuli are developed using evaluations of logos in China and Singapore. There is a significant relationship between design and the responses companies seek, including positive affect, perceptions of quality, recognition, consensus in meaning, and feng shui. How designs are perceived, and their effect on consumer responses, were similar between China and Singapore. Companies are encouraged to leverage design to strengthen their brands. In particular, they should select logo designs that are elaborate, natural, and harmonious as these created positive affect and quality perceptions, clear meaning, true recognition, and feng shui. Many of these relationships hold in the United Sates as well, implying that the visual aspects of brand strategies may accomplish companies' goals across international borders.     

The impact of Chinese monetary policy shocks on East and South‐East Asia1

We study the effects of Chinese monetary policy shocks on China's major trading partners in East and South‐East Asia by estimating structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models for six economies in the region. We find that a monetary expansion in Mainland China leads to an increase in real GDP (temporary) and the price level (permanent) in a number of economies in our sample, most notably in Hong Kong and the Philippines. The impact could result from intertemporal substitution present in a general equilibrium framework, which allows for positive domestic impacts of foreign monetary expansions. Our results emphasize the growing importance of China for its neighbouring economies and the significance of Chinese shocks for the design of monetary policy in Asian economies.     

Vertical intra-industry trade and foreign direct investment in East Asia

As economic integration in East Asia progresses, trade patterns within the region are displaying an ever-greater complexity: Though inter-industry trade still accounts for the majority, its share in overall trade is declining. Instead, intra-industry trade (IIT), which can be further divided into horizontal IIT (HIIT) and vertical IIT (VIIT), is growing in importance.In this paper, we set out to measure and examine vertical intra-industry trade patterns in the East Asian region and compare these with the results of previous studies focusing on the EU, to which such analyses so far have been confined. Based on the supposition that VIIT is closely related to offshore production by multinational enterprises, we then develop a model to capture the main determinants of VIIT that explicitly includes the role of FDI. The model is tested empirically using data from the electrical machinery industry. The findings support our hypothesis, showing that FDI plays a significant role in the rapid increase in VIIT in East Asia seen in recent years. J. Japanese Int. Economies 17 (4) (2003) 468–506.     

东亚经济合作现状及前景

本文从东亚经济合作的基本框架入手,分析了在当前全球经济发展中东亚经济合作的机遇和面临的挑战．并提出了建立自由贸易区促进经济合作的模式。     

人口—经济—空间视角的东北城市化空间分异研究

城市化是一个"人口—经济—空间"三维一体的过程——其中人是行为主体,经济是驱动力,空间是载体,据此构建城市化综合测度指标,运用均方差赋权法,对东北34个地级市城市化水平进行综合测度,并运用自然断裂法进行空间表达,结果表明东北地区城市化具有如下特征:①人口、经济、空间及其综合城市化水平空间分异明显,其中经济城市化的空间分异程度最为明显,且主导着人口、空间城市化的演变,但效益不是最佳;②综合城市化水平表明东北地区正处于城市化的加速发展阶段;③人口、经济和空间城市化的空间吻合性较差,其中经济城市化呈现出由南往北依次递减的趋势,而人口城市化呈黑龙江省>辽宁省>吉林省,空间城市化的规律性不明显;④哈大铁路沿线城市其经济、空间及综合城市化空间演变趋势相同——由南往北依次递减,而人口城市化恰好相反,即由南往北依次递增;⑤基于城市化视角的城市群发育程度表现出辽中南城市群>哈长城市群的特征。对东北地区城市化发展道路具有重要的指导意义和实践价值。