Emotion Regulation in Low-income Preschoolers

The present study was concerned with identifying the causes of low-income preschoolers' negative emotions and their most common regulation responses. The relations of family socialization practices and temperament to the children's emotion regulation skills were also examined. Ninety predominantly minority low-income preschoolers (46 boys) and their mothers participated. During visits to the children's preschools, observers watched for expressions of anger and sadness, and recorded the causes of the displays and the children's reactions. Mothers reported on their emotion socialization and discipline practices and their children's temperament. Although the children expressed more anger than sadness, they used more constructive reactions in response to sadness and more non-constructive reactions in response to anger. Maternal reports of appropriate family emotion were associated with low levels of non-constructive regulation responses to anger and sadness whereas reports of inconsistent parental discipline were generally associated with non-constructive regulation responses. All in all, the findings of this study are in accord with findings on middle-income children and indicate that low- and middle-income children are more alike than different with regard to the regulation of negative emotion in the peer environment.     

公共危机状态下的大众传媒与社会控制

在现代信息社会中，作为次级系统的大众传媒通过影响环境认知、促成社会共识、引导社会舆论，对整个社会系统产生能动作用。但在公共危机状态下，大众传媒的“双刃剑”属性相当明显，既有社会控制的正功能，也存在负效应。因此，需注意探索和掌握公共危机管理中的信息传播规律，加强对大众传媒的积极控制，提升和完善社会控制策略，维护社会秩序，凝聚社会力量，为战胜危机营造有利的社会环境。     

土地一级开发属性分析及其市场集中度实证研究——以北京市为例

我国的土地一级开发同时具有自然垄断、行政垄断和政府规制的三重特征。运用北京市土地住宅开发等实际数据对其进行检验，即通过计算绝对集中度的c如指标、相对集中度的洛仑兹曲线和基尼系数指标，表明该市的住宅开发市场属于典型的垄断竞争市场。这说明政府应积极搭建公开、公平、公正的竞争平台，在削减自然垄断市场势力的同时，加强对开发企业的规制，促进土地开发市场的良性发展。     

Food safety regulation,economic impact assessment and quantitative methods

Together with a call for more efficient regulations in the EU, there is a growing demand for transparency in the evaluation techniques to assess and predict their effects. This article explores the potential impacts of food safety regulations and discusses the quantitative methods used in the policy evaluation literature. Along with the strengths and limitations of each method, this review highlights other transversal issues relevant to the assessment strategies. Among these are the imbalance between ex ante and ex post evaluation, the lack of adequate data, the difficulty of estimating the dynamic effects of regulations, and the possibility of endogenous relationships.     

Foreign Direct Investment in the Caribbean

This article addresses the question of whether the Caribbean is particularly attractive or unattractive to foreign investors, and if it has specific characteristics that attract or deter FDI. An econometric analysis of data from 135 countries for 1980‐2002 shows that the Caribbean does not suffer from low inflows of FDI; on the contrary, Caribbean countries receive more FDI than comparable countries in other regions. This reflects two contradictory effects. On the one hand, FDI inflows may be particularly sensitive to political instability in the region; on the other hand, the absence of regulation appears to have been a particularly beneficial factor in attracting FDI to the Caribbean.     

房地产宏观调控对不同经济发展区域的影响——基于安徽、浙江两省的分析

2003年以来,我国政府在对固定资产"投资过热"几大行业加大宏观调控力度之后,又对"逐步过热"的房地产市场相继出台了包括土地使用、金融、交易、房价一系列调控政策,目的是促使我国房地产行业更加健康、有序发展。这些政策在具体实施过程中,各地会因经济不同而产生不同的影响,而这又会反作用于市场,进而产生正、负双面的效应。为证明这一点,仅以浙江、安徽两省为例来予以分析,并在此基础上得出一些结论。     

英国调控贫富不均政策下的和谐社会观

19世纪末20世纪初，英国政府通过福利和税收等一系列调控手段缩小了贫富差距，促使阶级矛盾逐步缓和，促进了社会整体和谐发展。对英国政府和谐社会观的探析，有利于全面认识资本主义制度的发展规律和社会本质：国家把贫富差距调控到贫富双方均能承受的程度，实际上是为了维持剥削关系的继续存在和发展。     

公款吃喝的法律规制——基于公务开支规范化的法律思考

公款吃喝在我国是十分普遍的现象,现行的规范体系没有很好地对其进行规制。这主要是由于规范的内部结构以及外部效力出现了问题。要扼制公款吃喝必须从规范公务开支入手。换句话说,要从宪法、刑法以及诉讼制度的创新入手,这三个方面对公务开支进行规范,才能有效地扼制公款吃喝。     

Deposit Insurance Reform in Belarus: Remedy or Threat for the Banking System?

The transformation of private savers' funds into business loans through the banking system is weak in Belarus compared with other Eastern European economies. High concentration, governmental interference, an inconsistent regulation, and a difficult business environment characterise the banks' situation. In order to attract more savings, a reform of the deposit insurance system is presently under discussion. This is expected to contribute to economic growth and development. But deposit insurance, especially when established in a weak institutional environment, can unfold multifarious moral-hazard effects. This paper analyses whether the proposed deposit insurance system is likely to improve the present situation and how it could be better adjusted to the country's situation.     

论会计管制与会计制度弹性

企业的契约本质决定了会计作为制造共同知识和控制机制在企业实施的必然性.信息不对称与机会主义等促使企业实施会计管制.囿于环境的复杂性、不完全信息和有限理性等,会计管制制度必须具有弹性.会计制度弹性空间作为公共区域,必然存在攫取租金的机会主义行为.计算并披露会计制度弹性信息有助于降低信息不对称,提高市场效率.