No‐Bubble Condition: Model‐Free Tests in Housing Markets

We test for the existence of housing bubbles associated with a failure of the transversality condition that requires the present value of payments occurring infinitely far in the future to be zero. The most prominent such bubble is the classic rational bubble. We study housing markets in the United Kingdom and Singapore, where residential property ownership takes the form of either leaseholds or freeholds. Leaseholds are finite‐maturity, pre‐paid, and tradeable ownership contracts with maturities often exceeding 700 years. Freeholds are infinite‐maturity ownership contracts. The price difference between leaseholds with extremely‐long maturities and freeholds reflects the present value of a claim to the freehold after leasehold expiry, and is thus a direct empirical measure of the transversality condition. We estimate this price difference, and find no evidence of failures of the transversality condition in housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, even during periods when a sizable bubble was regularly thought to be present.     

项目制研究的现状与新路径

项目制作为一种新的国家治理体制,在中国经济与社会发展中发挥着日益深广的影响力。文献考察发现,国内研究围绕五个主要议题展开,研究成果较集中于近六年内;国外研究也有一定基础。既有研究尚存在两方面突出问题：一是研究视角有缺失,偏重宏观层面和政府视角而忽视了基层村庄社会的回应;二是研究议题失均衡,对项目制负面效应发生机理和防范机制研究还很薄弱。“村庄回应”是项目制研究值得重视的一条新路径,以此路径切入,可探寻“项目进村”的实践逻辑与问题成因,是有利于找到优化基层治理格局、提升项目制实践成效并防范“项目进村”负面效应的有效方法。     

环境法“义务重心”的理论证成与立法回应

环境法“义务重心论”是从“法的技术”层面提出的观点,是有别于“法的价值”层面而言的“义务本位论”,既非漠视主体的权利,也非“义务本位论”的回归,而是对环境权利“最给力”的捍卫与落实,其实践意义在于增进法律实效.环境法“义务重心”的客观依据正是自然规律的客观性、人类需要的基础性以及环境问题的特殊性.中国环境法亟需实现从“亡羊补牢式”“倒逼”到“未雨绸缪式 ”“预见”的“义务重心”立法理念匹配以及在合理配置各主体环境义务、扩充环境积极义务的内容、增加环境义务的履行方式以及强化违反环境义务的法律后果等层面进行环境立法“义务重心”的路径拓展,以期通过“义务重心”的环境立法变革增进环境法的实效.     

论食品安全事件中的良性媒体应对

食品安全事件是近年来全球公共安全问题中的热点,由于食品安全的重要性、食品安全事件的公众效应以及基于传媒的属性,媒体常将其作为关注的热点。媒体在食品安全事件中发挥着监测预警、沟通信息、舆论引导等功能,同时也存在关注视角的选择性和职业自律的松懈等不足。作为一种社会公共资源和社会监督力量,基于传媒良知和职业操守,媒体在食品安全事件中必须形成一套良性的应对机制,包括建立信息有效传播机制、建立食品安全事件相关方的沟通协调机制、建立媒体自律机制等。     

Goodness-of-fit tests of generalized linear mixed models for repeated ordinal responses

Categorical longitudinal data are frequently applied in a variety of fields, and are commonly fitted by generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) and generalized estimating equations models. The cumulative logit is one of the useful link functions to deal with the problem involving repeated ordinal responses. To check the adequacy of the GLMMs with cumulative logit link function, two goodness-of-fit tests constructed by the unweighted sum of squared model residuals using numerical integration and bootstrap resampling technique are proposed. The empirical type I error rates and powers of the proposed tests are examined by simulation studies. The ordinal longitudinal studies are utilized to illustrate the application of the two proposed tests.     

论“日本视野”中的中国现实主义文学思潮接受

探讨中国现实主义文学思潮的接受来源,"日本视野"是不可或缺的视角.近在咫尺的东邻日本,较早接受西方现实主义文学思潮,曾在不同时期给中国现实主义文学思潮的生成与发展产生影响.但中国作家从日本引入的现实主义理论,有不同的内涵与特质,因而也会产生不同的接受效应.     

分析马克思主义的方法论基础探析

分析马克思主义作为西方马克思主义研究的一种新范式而出现,实现了马克思主义研究的方法论的新突破.西方社会科学中流行的个人主义解释模式构成其方法论的学术背景.约翰·埃尔斯特构建出分析马克思主义方法论的框架--以方法论个人主义为方法论原则,以意向性解释尤其是理性选择理论、博弈论为具体解释方法.围绕方法论个人主义和理性选择理论的争论逐步凸显出分析马克思主义研究方法论的全貌.只有运用辩证法精神,才能恰当处理方法论个人主义与方法论集体主义的关系、理性选择理论与功能解释的关系,才能准确评判与把握分析马克思主义的方法论基础.     

中国货币财政政策有效性的比较检验

货币政策和财政政策是政府干预宏观经济最重要、使用最频繁的两大工具。改革开放以来,我国政府综合运用货币政策和财政政策调控经济运行,促进经济增长。为检验中国1978～2006年间经济增长中货币政策和财政政策有效性的差异性特征,应用脉冲响应函数研究它们之间的动态特性后发现:无论是短期还是长期,积极货币政策对于经济增长均有正效应,而积极财政政策仅在短期内有效,长期内呈现负效应且随时间推移逐渐显著。积极财政政策长期失效的原因有多方面,主要是财政支出的供给范围不合理和支出管理失控产生的效率损失。     

Cultural capital or relative risk aversion? Two mechanisms for educational inequality compared1

In this paper we empirically examined two explanatory mechanisms for educational inequality: cultural reproduction and relative risk aversion, using survey data taken from secondary school pupils in Amsterdam. Cultural reproduction theory seeks to explain class variations in schooling by cultural differences between social classes. Relative risk aversion theory argues that educational inequalities can be understood by between-class variation in the necessity of pursuing education at branching points in order to avoid downward mobility. We showed that class variations in early demonstrated ability are for a substantial part cultural: cultural capital - measured by parental involvement in highbrow culture - affected school performance at the primary and secondary level. However, relative risk aversion - operationalized by being concerned with downward mobility - strongly affects schooling ambitions, whereas cultural capital had no effect. Thus, we conclude that 'primary effects' of social origin on schooling outcomes are manifested through cultural capital and not through relative risk aversion (in addition to other potential sources of class variations such as genetics). Relative risk aversion, and not cultural capital, affects schooling ambitions, which is relevant for our understanding of secondary effects.     

过程写作法在英语专业低年级的运用

过程写作法近年来盛行海外，已经成为西方写作教学主流。它将写作视为交互循环的心理认知过程和语言交际过程，重视写作的具体过程及其交际性，被证明对于提高学习者写作能力效果显著。本文系统地研究了过程写作法产生的背景、理论基础及其在写作教学中的实际应用。