Local Officials＇ Incentives and China＇s Economic Growth： Tournament Thesis Reexamined and Alternative Explanatory Framework

To explain China's dramatic economic growth, researchers have proposed a “tournament thesis.” According to this thesis, the central government's ability to set growth targets has played a crucial role in growth since political promotion is largely based on local economic growth. We use provincial officials' career mobility data to test this thesis. For both time periods (1979–1995 and 1979–2002), economic performance, measured in annual, average and relative terms, did not affect these officials' career advancement. We then sketch an alternative analytical framework to explain Chinese local officials' strong urge for developmentalism and, finally, draw policy implications from this explanatory framework.     

Learning and Efficiency with Search Frictions

This paper studies the allocative efficiency in a Moscarini (2005)-type equilibrium search environment with learning. It is shown that the stationary equilibrium is efficient if and only if the Hosios condition holds no matter whether learning is about firm-specific human capital or about general human capital. However, the stationary equilibrium can never be efficient if externalities exist from unemployment. In contrast, even with externalities, the stationary equilibrium can be efficient under some modified Hosios condition if there is no uncertainty (standard Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)-type equilibrium search environment). The key intuition is that the equilibrium can only be efficient if firm-worker matching is formed and terminated efficiently.     

Ethical leadership in Chinese organizations: Developing a scale

In light of a series of ethical scandals in China in recent years, this research aims to develop a reliable and valid scale to measure ethical leadership, namely the “ethical leadership measure (ELM).” Our results show that ELM is strongly and positively correlated with scales for authentic leadership, ethical leadership, idealized influence, and a recently-developed leadership virtues questionnaire (LVQ); and negatively correlated with laissez-faire leadership and passive management by exception. ELM is also found to be positively related to followers’ job satisfaction, affective commitment, trust in leader, organizational citizenship behavior, and moral identity, and negatively related to followers’ intention to quit.     

国外咨询业扫描

国外咨询业扫描曹晓一、咨询企业的几种类型一个咨询企业要发展，首要的问题是根据自身的特点、所处的环境和社会的需求来确定自己的发展模式。发达国家的咨询企业大约有如下几种主要类型：１．综合咨询。这类咨询机构有五个明显特点：（ｌ）业务范围广泛，（２）科学水准...     

农业领域低碳政策的中外比较研究

低碳农业是全球气候变化背景下中国农业可持续发展必然途径。发达国家在发展低碳农业中采用了多样化的政策工具,值得发展中国家深入研究和借鉴。我国正在积极探索和应用低碳经济发展模式,应学习国外低碳农业政策,吸取国外低碳农业政策的成功经验,不断完善我国的低碳经济发展体系。本文在梳理国内农业领域低碳政策的同时,与国外低碳农业政策进行了比较分析,提出了适宜我国低碳农业发展的模式。     

石化产业结构调整中的若干问题

90年代以来,世界石化市场重心偏移亚洲,中国石化工业面临着激烈的币场竞争,根据2000年我国石化工业市场占有率的目标提出了市场、产销一体化、规模、产业布局、相关产业和体制改革等产业结构调整中的问题和相应实施的措施。