亚太地区财富管理机遇来临

财富管理服务对亚太地区的金融机构产生了越来越强的吸引力,但后者需要在打造产品、销售和客户关系管理能力方面付出额外的努力。金融机构未来的成功来自于对客户偏好和风格的理解,对监管发展的认识,对系列产品的设计,以及发展良好的基础和交往平台,培养人才和进行轮岗项目等。     

Online Student Competitions in Economics

URL: http://www.econchallenge.org/     

Information-sharing in health and social care: Lessons from a socio-technical initiative

Advances in information technology have led to new and innovative approaches in data-sharing, analysis, interpretation, and the potential for real-time responses to changes in health and social care status. However, health and social care information is not only complex but often socially and personally sensitive in ways that do not apply in other domains. This requires adoption of a tailored interdisciplinary (social, ethical, legal, technical and data science) and intersectoral (health and social care, academic and commercial institutions and citizens) approach to technology development. The authors present some important lessons to date from ongoing development of an innovative infrastructure for sharing health and social care data.     

The Test of Economic Literacy: Development and Results

In this study, the authors report on the revision of the Test of Economic Literacy for the fourth edition. The Test of Economic Literacy is a nationally-normed and standardized measure of the economic understanding of U.S. high school students. The economic content of the test is based on the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics, which is used to establish the content validity for the test. The revision process is described and evidence on the test reliability and construct validity is presented from the test score analysis. The Test of Economic Literacy has a long and successful history of use by educators and researchers interested in economic education in high schools. The new edition should provide an improved instrument to continue that testing and research work.     

A Survey of Economic Understanding in U.S. High Schools

The recent widespread adoption of online competitions in economic education provides a unique opportunity to make frequent assessments of economic literacy in U.S. classrooms. In this survey, student responses to test items from the Test of Economic Literacy (TEL) are used to create economic concept and content area achievement benchmarks. These benchmarks provide an interim renorming of the TEL and allow the authors to gauge the status of economic understanding among high school students. The data also allow the authors to compare learning outcomes between regular and advanced economics classes. Finally, the authors find that students in advanced economics classes significantly outperform students in regular classes.     

Campaigning and working with the media

From dangerous dogs to dangerous firearms, campaigns to change the law often thrive on media coverage. For in the never-ending quest for ‘public awareness’ the media can be a useful ally. But, as we all know, the media can also be unreliable; that big launch costing thousands can so easily clash with Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit cancelling their wedding, however rigorous the planning. This paper provides one or two thoughts about the use of the media in campaigning. It will never overcome a celebrity scandal dominating the headlines, but what it will do is guarantee a certain level of coverage, thus enhancing the national media campaign.     

Industry Structure,Segmentation, and Quality Competition in the U.S. Hotel Industry*

We examine how quality competition affects the relationship between market size and industry structure at the product level using evidence from the U.S. hotel industry. Starting in the early 1980s, quality competition for business travelers became more based on variable and less on fixed costs, and became less scale intensive. Since then, market size increases have been met by more, but smaller, hotels in business travel destinations but continued to be met by larger hotels in personal travel destinations. Our results illustrate how the way consumers benefit from increases in market size depends on how firms compete.