Tourism is an important sector of the post-industrial economies of the developed nations. This article concentrates on the contribution of tourism to the balance of payments in Yugoslavia. Current methods of assessing the value of tourism transactions are inadequate and make international comparisons impossible. The complexity involved in defining ‘tourism’ has led to the accumulation of meaningless data. The IMF's standard balance-of-payments model is described, and the ways in which Yugoslavia's measurements of tourism income and expenditure could be standardized according to IMF recommendations and thus become use- ful in economic policy formulation. 相似文献
Using micro-level household data in the 2001 Comprehensive Survey of the Living Conditions of the People on Health and Welfare compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, this paper examines how having a household member in need of long-term nursing care can result in welfare losses measured in terms of consumption. In so doing, this study evaluates the role of the public long-term care insurance scheme implemented in Japan in April 2000. The results indicate that when households include a disabled family member, household consumption net of long-term care costs do not decrease as much as before the introduction of long-term care insurance. Further, when compared with the surveys conducted in 1998, the adverse effects on consumption net of long-term care costs have become much weaker. These findings suggest that the introduction of social insurance in 2000 helped Japanese households to reduce the welfare losses associated with a disabled family member. 相似文献
This paper draws on six waves of Japanese household longitudinal data (Keio Household Panel Survey, KHPS) and estimates a conditional fixed effects logit model to investigate the effects of housing equity constraints and income shocks on own-to-own residential moves in Japan. By looking at contemporaneous extended Loan-to-Value (ELTV) and extended Debt-to-Income (EDTI) ratios under the recourse loan system, we examine whether housing equity constraints and negative income shocks have any impact on own-to-own residential moves. Taking account of the specific nature of the recourse loan system in Japan, we further investigate whether these effects are different between positive and negative equity households. The estimation results show that housing equity constraints and negative income shocks significantly deter own-to-own residential moves for positive equity households. 相似文献
We introduce a very fundamental and important axiom of the non-dummy. This states that each agent can change the outcome of the mechanism at some preference profile, thus guaranteeing every agent the minimum right to affect the social decision. We study the possibility of strategy-proof, efficient and non-dummy mechanisms in pure exchange economies. We provide two new interesting classes of such mechanisms. The results shed light on the structure of strategy-proof and efficient mechanisms, and should promote a complete characterization of those mechanisms in pure exchange economies with three or more agents. 相似文献
Regulation and Development by Jean‐Jacques Laffont, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, xxiii + 268 pp. The Economics of Microfinance by Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2005, xiv + 346 pp. Asian States: Beyond the Developmental Perspective edited by Richard Boyd and Tak‐Wing Ngo, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, xv + 224 pp. Growth, Structural Change and Regional Inequality in Malaysia by Asan Ali Golam Hassan, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, xiv + 245 pp. The Monetary Geography of Africa by Paul R. Masson and Catherine Pattillo, Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2005, xx + 217 pp. 相似文献
This article proposes an algorithm to recommend apposite ID photos for users by judging the photo of which the facial expression is apposite or not as the ID photo. Microsoft’s Kinect sensor is used for taking photos. Parts of the face, such as eyes, nose, and mouth, are analyzed as explanatory variables for judging face expression. Some body coordinate information such as head and shoulders is used to trim the photos. Neural networks and support vector machines are employed and compared to our proposed method. To achieve accurate results, ten examinees including specialized staff are selected for taking ID photo used for training models. A series of experiments are conducted to examine the validity. As a result, the accuracy of neural networks is better than that of the support vector machine. Furthermore, we analyze and discuss the difference between system results and specialized staffs’ opinions.
Individuals living in metropolitan areas are exposed to a large number of industrial risks. Information regulation is a new
tool to manage such risks. We ask if large-scale information initiatives directed at the general public can affect individual
risk perceptions. The answer is affirmative. Using the publication of the Toxics Release Inventory as a case study, we find
a decline in predicted property values when new information on pollution became available, indicating that homebuyers adjusted
their risk perceptions upward. The response, however, is limited to sources of toxic emissions that are located at a moderate
distance from the properties in our sample.
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