W.E.B. Du Bois and Filipino/a American exposure programs to the Philippines: race class analysis in an epoch of ‘global apartheid’

The article highlights the ongoing relevance of W.E.B. Du Bois for the global analysis of race and class. Engaging scholarly debates that have ensued within the educational subfields of critical race theory (CRT) and (revolutionary) critical pedagogy, the article explores how a deeper engagement with Du Bois’s ideas contributes theoretically and methodologically to these two subfields. Of particular focus is Du Bois’s conceptualization of a ‘guiding hundredth,’ which he forwarded as a corrective to his ideas of a ‘talented tenth.’ The article also offers a case study analysis of the film Sounds of a New Hope, which documents a hip hop exposure program to the Philippines. The case study draws upon Du Bois’s ‘guiding hundredth’ for a twenty-first century context as a Filipino American cultural worker utilizes hip hop to articulate, analyze, and alter the lived experiences for Filipino/a Americans in a global diaspora.     

资产证券化与金融市场动态关系研究——基于美国CDO产品的证据

文章从产品市场链的视角出发,以美国代表性证券化产品CDO为例,从理论机理和实证检验两个方面研究了资产证券化与广义金融市场的动态关系。结果表明:资产证券化把房地产市场、信贷市场、债券市场和股票市场紧密联系在一起,形成一种独特的市场链结构,该市场链反映出证券化产品与各个金融市场之间的强弱关系以及风险传导顺序;短期内证券化产品与市场链上的远端市场关系很弱,长期内证券化产品与所有金融市场均保持一种稳定正向关系,说明证券化产品如若发生风险暴露,短期内风险只会在市场链的近端市场发生传导而不会影响到远端市场,但在长期,风险则会通过市场链传递给整个金融系统,最终可能引发市场动荡。     

Homosexual Discretion and Good Taste: Two Rules That Govern Homosexual Sociability Space in Santiago de Chile

Homosexual sociability space in Santiago is not socially homogenous. Beyond non-heterosexual identities segmentation (gay, lesbian, queer, BDSM, etc.), the present article proposes a reflection observing certain social distinctions or differences that come into play to create a hierarchy among gay and lesbian individuals within that space. Using a qualitative approximation, we analyze the discourse of homosexual men and women about ways to display homosexuality in different places in the city, as well as some sociability practices used in homosexual venues. The resulting social hierarchy is understood through two central subjective rules: discretion and good taste, dynamic mechanisms that perpetuate the distance among groups within the same sociability space, and to some extent reproduce the city’s class structure. Given that material means to privatize and sophisticate homosexual expression are unequally distributed in Santiago, the resulting differentiated social networks end up configuring the visibility strategies of homosexual identity played out in the city in the last years.     

金融集聚、生产率增长与城乡收入差距的实证分析——基于动态空间面板模型

本文利用中国2003-2013年285个地级及以上城市的统计数据，采用动态空间面板模型实证分析了金融集聚对城市总体生产率增长及其内部城乡收入差距的影响，研究结论表明：金融集聚是促进城市总体生产率增长的重要推动力，同时也是导致城市内部城乡收入差距扩大的关键因素，这主要是因为金融集聚显著推动了城市居民人均收入水平的提高，而对农村居民人均收入水平的提升作用不显著。本文的政策含义在于，在城市金融集聚的扩散阶段还没有到来之前，政府旨在缓解城乡收入差距的金融政策可能会抑制城市总体生产率增长。     

基于HErD分布的信号交叉口车辆到达规律动态预测

为掌握信号交叉口实时优化信号控制和交通诱导所需的车流到达信号交叉口的随机时变规律，利用HErD分布具有无限逼近任意非负随机变量的特性，提出基于HErD分布的信号交叉口车辆到达时间间隔变化规律动态预测的方法，并以一个交叉口的2个进口道进行实例验证分析。实验结果为：其中方向一的拟合度范围为86.17%~ 93.51%，平均拟合度高达9032%，方向二的拟合度范围为93.24%~98.52%，平均拟合度高达9693%，其高精度的拟合结果表明基于HErD分布的信号交叉口车辆到达规律动态预测具有科学性和实用性。     

‘Car Talk’: automobility and Chinese international students in Michigan

The apparent conspicuous consumption of luxury vehicles by Chinese international students attending a public Michigan University provides an opportunity to examine the convergence of different ideas about automobility. Upwardly mobile Chinese families send their children to Michigan, a state with a tradition of auto-production, for educational opportunities not available in China. The resulting ‘car talk’ of local residents about Chinese students and their cars speaks to broader anxieties about Michigan’s shifting relationship to the global economy. However, the paper focuses on the meanings of auto-owning created by Chinese students who make decisions about the purchase and use of their autos within a social world oriented primarily to other Chinese students and societal ideas about auto-owning circulating among friends, family and society in China. For Chinese students, car owning encompasses meanings of status, safety and sociability that are created within the context of study abroad.     

Estimation and Inference Procedures for Semiparametric Distribution Models with Varying Linear‐Index

More flexible semiparametric linear‐index regression models are proposed to describe the conditional distribution. Such a model formulation captures varying effects of covariates over the support of a response variable in distribution, offers an alternative perspective on dimension reduction and covers a lot of widely used parametric and semiparameteric regression models. A feasible pseudo likelihood approach, accompanied with a simple and easily implemented algorithm, is further developed for the mixed case with both varying and invariant coefficients. By justifying some theoretical properties on Banach spaces, the uniform consistency and asymptotic Gaussian process of the proposed estimator are also established in this article. In addition, under the monotonicity of distribution in linear‐index, we develop an alternative approach based on maximizing a varying accuracy measure. By virtue of the asymptotic recursion relation for the estimators, some of the achievements in this direction include showing the convergence of the iterative computation procedure and establishing the large sample properties of the resulting estimator. It is noticeable that our theoretical framework is very helpful in constructing confidence bands for the parameters of interest and tests for the hypotheses of various qualitative structures in distribution. Generally, the developed estimation and inference procedures perform quite satisfactorily in the conducted simulations and are demonstrated to be useful in reanalysing data from the Boston house price study and the World Values Survey.     

中国城市商业银行盈利能力影响因素分析——基于50家商业银行的微观数据

基于2009-2015年期间国内50家城市商业银行(城商行)的微观数据,采用动态面板数据模型实证检验了资产负债结构及其他宏微观因子对城商业银行盈利能力的影响。研究结论表明:负债及资产结构对城商行的盈利能力具有显著的影响,一般性存款占负债的比重、贷款占资产的比重均与其盈利水平显著正相关;城商行的资产质量及成本控制水平越高,盈利能力也越强;规模越大并不意味着盈利能力越强,那些规模较小的城商行因为聚焦于中小客户群体、具有更高的定价话语权而能够获取更高的盈利;GDP增长率、货币政策等外部宏观环境并不会显著影响城商行的盈利水平。因此,城商行不应追求单纯的规模扩张而应着力强化资产负债统筹管理,并立足自身资源禀赋及市场定位,走差异化、特色化发展道路。     

基于邻避运动视域的中产阶层功能重新审视]——以R市的“核邻避运动”为例

国内学术界将“中产阶层”视为社会政治“稳定—缓冲”器的认知看似符合静态的中国社会结构，但就现实而言，却忽略了转型期中国政治社会情境的复杂性和过渡性。近年来，城市中产业主引发的愈演愈烈的邻避运动，更是挑战这一传统认知。基于R市“核邻避运动”的视域，我们发现中国城市中产阶层的社会政治功能在某一特定时间流下会发生转变，甚至出现了“稳定器”和“动荡器”两个相对立的社会、政治功能。而差别阶层特质、中产精英上台等内部中介机制,以及怨愤情绪生产、政府内部分歧等外部中介机制，是中产阶层社会政治功能演化的深层机制。此外，值得注意的是，由于“身份限制”和“制度限制”的二重性，中产阶层的社会政治功能往往并不会演变为“颠覆—异化”器。