Strategic nonlinear pricing

The objective of this paper is to examine the role of nonlinear strategies in a standard oligopoly framework. We demonstrate that nonlinear pricing may indeed emerge as an equilibrium strategy, but only when firms produce differentiated products, when one firm retains market power due to a cost advantage, or as part of an equilibrium in mixed strategies. In addition, we examine the role of nonlinear pricing in a spatial-competition framework. Our main conclusion is that in highly competitive markets, nonlinear pricing strategies are not likely to emerge as an equilibrium.     

Natural resources and international labour mobility

We study the relationship between natural resource wealth and (skilled and unskilled) emigration. The source data for international migration rates come from Brücker, Capuano, and Marfouk (2013) and measures of resource wealth from the World Bank database. We find that natural resource abundance reduces skilled emigration regardless of countries’ natural wealth, but that natural resources reduce unskilled emigration only in resource-rich countries.     

基于信息共享的供应链定价策略及利润增值研究

基于单一制造商和单一零售商构成的供应链系统,在非线性市场需求的前提下,应用博弈理论对供应链系统的定价策略进行了分析,分别得出信息共享时的博弈均衡解和信息不共享时的博弈均衡解;进一步分析了信息共享程度的大小与批发价、零售价以及双方利润之间的关系,得出信息共享程度越高,制造商和零售商的利润越大,信息共享实现了帕累托改进。最后,通过实例对结论进行了验证。     

合同的形式瑕疵及其补正——《合同法》第36条的解释与完善

我国《合同法》第36条应该解释为:法定或约定形式是合同的特别成立要件。合同的形式瑕疵可以因履行而补正,但《合同法》第36条对于合同义务的履行程度、形式瑕疵补正是否有溯及力以及继续性合同形式瑕疵补正的效力等问题缺乏完备的规定,对于约定形式的欠缺没有予以特殊处理。对此,应当予以完善。     

豫中优质烟草产区微量元素地球化学

本文主要介绍河南省中部地区优质烟草产区岩石、土壤等介质中微量元素分布特征及其迁移演化规律。简要讨论了烟草品质与微量元素的关系。     

Nonlinear Mean Reversion across National Stock Markets: Evidence from Emerging Asian Markets

This paper seeks empirical evidence of nonlinear mean-reversion in relative national stock price indices for Emerging Asian countries. It is well known that conventional linear unit root tests suffer from low power against the stationary nonlinear alternative. Implementing the nonlinear unit root tests proposed by Kapetanios et al. (2003 Kapetanios, G., Shin, Y. and Snell, A. 2003. Testing for a unit root in the nonlinear STAR framework. Journal of Econometrics, 112: 359–379. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and Cerrato et al. (2009 Cerrato, M., de Peretti, C., Larsson, R. and Sarantis, N. 2009. “A nonlinear panel unit root test under cross section dependence”. Working Papers 28, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow [Google Scholar]) for the relative stock prices of Emerging Asian markets, we find strong evidence of nonlinear mean reversion, whereas linear tests fail to reject the unit root null for most cases. We also report some evidence that stock markets in China and Taiwan are highly localized.     

冲击电压下特高压支柱绝缘子表面电场研究

特高压输变电工程对支柱绝缘子提出了更高的技术要求,运行中支柱绝缘子会因雷击发生污闪,而支柱绝缘子的电场、电位分布和闪络现象存在一定关系。为研究特高压支柱绝缘子表面电场分布特性,建立了1 100kV支柱绝缘子的有限元计算模型。理论分析与仿真结果表明,雷电冲击电压作用下支柱绝缘子表面电场分布随时间变化的曲线在波形上与激励源雷电波的波形相似,第一对和最后一对大小伞的电场强度较大,中间大小伞的电场强度较小,最大场强点位于金属电极下端的绝缘护套表面。     

三线铁路荷载作用下箱梁桥荷载横向分布系数

文章运用有限元程序对三线铁路预应力混凝土连续箱梁桥进行了模拟,分析了三线铁路荷载作用下箱梁的受力特性及在各种荷载工况下荷载横向分布规律,给出了荷载横向系数的实用值。     

The effectiveness of monetary policy and output fluctuations: An asymmetric analysis

Previous studies have investigated asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy on the real economic activity by using either vector autoregressive (VAR)-based regime-switching models with smooth transition technique or Gaussian functions to parameterise the dynamic effects of structural shocks on the economy. These kinds of VAR models assume asymmetry as a short-run relationship between the series since the long-run neutrality hypothesis of money states that monetary policy can only affect productive capacity of the economy in the short run, but not in the long run. The recent theoretical literature shows that this hypothesis is not quite right. Thus, this paper examines the extent to which monetary policy has a long-run asymmetric effect on output in a number of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries by using a nonlinear hidden cointegration analysis within a likelihood-based panel framework. The findings indicate that there is a long-run relationship between the real interest rate as an indicator of monetary policy and the growth rate of real output in five countries out of nine under review. This gives support for the view that output has responded asymmetrically to the real interest rate changes. The economic implication of our results is that monetary policy affects positive and negative output fluctuations differently.     

海产品贸易的环境成本内部化

在国际市场上,低价出售的农产品常常被发达国家以生态倾销的名义征收反倾销税,理由是这类产品对环境所造成的破坏和影响没有计算到产品的成本中。或者说,这类产品的低价位不是技术进步的结果,而是通过牺牲环境为代价换来的。如何将产品的外部成本内化为产品的成本呢?本文以海产品为例提出一些核算方法,即排污权转让法、环境要素差距分析法以及综合分析法。