Financial frictions and indebtedness of Balkan firms: A comparison with Mediterranean and Central European countries

Using a large database of financial data for non-financial corporations, we study the process of debt accumulation and its influence on liquidity through the boom-bust-recovery regimes (2006–2010) in the Balkan countries and benchmark this against the Mediterranean and Central European countries. The domestic amplification effects (through the financial accelerator and collateral pricing) of both the capital surge from developed EU countries at the onset of the crisis and the capital reversal afterwards are the focus of the analysis. We show that domestic generators and amplificators of the crisis have much larger effects in the Balkan countries than in the Mediterranean countries, not to mention the countries of Central Europe. In the boom period, the financial accelerator was several times stronger in the Balkan countries than in the Mediterranean and Central European countries. In the bust and recovery periods, however, the direct effects of the financial accelerator declined, but the indirect effects increased considerably due to liquidity squeezes and contagion, especially strong were corresponding intercompany debt effects. In the Balkan countries, these effects in the bust and recovery periods were at least 50% larger than in the Mediterranean and Central European countries. Higher crisis costs in the Balkan countries, relative to the benchmark regions, could be attributed to the late integration of these economies into international financial and trade flows, weak institutions of financial intermediation, and inexperienced regulators; however, the importance of the contribution of misguided EU convergence doctrine cannot be ignored. Lessons for improving macromanagement in EU periphery countries are suggested.     

‘In England,they don’t call you black!’ Migrating racialisations and the production of Roma difference across Europe

This article draws on long-term fieldwork among Slovak Roma migrants, identifying processes through which a haunting figure of the Roma migrant emerges across Europe, to argue for more differentiated accounts of continuing and emerging forms of racialisation. It explores how the movement of Roma (whose bodies are marked by their racialised ‘darkness’ in Slovakia) to Britain granted them a temporary escape from this modality of branding while simultaneously exposing them to different categorisations within a re-configuring classificatory matrix. The article develops the concept of ‘migrating racialisation’ in order to empirically trace how historically developed forms of racialisation in Slovakia migrate across Europe through the movement of Roma and non-Roma migrants from Eastern Europe, as well as through particular forms of knowledge circulating within transnational fields constituted not only by Roma migrants themselves but also by various institutions for ‘managing’ or ‘researching’ ‘the Roma’. This concept allows us to analyse how the recent forms of racialisation simultaneously draw on heterogenous histories and nation-state formations, social conditions and sedimented bodily dispositions, which are re-adjusted to new social conditions, discourses and emerging forms of knowledge produced about Roma migrants over the last decade in British and European contexts.     

普惠性民办幼儿园研究现状与趋势

基于对中国知网收录的普惠性民办幼儿园文献进行计量分析发现，一是研究可以划分为三个阶段，每个阶段都具有鲜明的特征；二是研究总体存在刊文规模小，主题研究持续性弱，研究者合作关系薄弱，研究重点区域由东向西迁移，区域性差异较大等现状。因此未来普惠性民办幼儿园研究和发展要在扩大研究规模、加强幼儿教师队伍研究、拓展研究视野、坚持分类分地区思想等方面进一步拓展。     

例谈幼儿园心理健康教育活动课实施策略

开设心理健康教育活动课，是幼儿园心理健康教育的重要途径。幼儿园心理健康活动课的实施应该体现活动、体验、分享、感悟、练习、成长的理念；应该采用在活动中体验和感悟、在分享中感悟和产生行为意向、在练习中学习和改善行为的实施策略。同时，也要考虑到幼儿的安全、年龄特点和活动的适宜性等。     

区域一体化背景下城市土地利用效率的空间关联及其解释——以长江中游城市群为例

从理论层面揭示区域一体化影响城市土地利用效率（ULUE）的内在机理，构建区域一体化背景下“规模+结构+集聚”的ULUE测度体系，并综合利用小波神经网络、空间分异模型和空间回归分析探索2003-2015年长江中游城市群ULUE的空间关联特征及其影响因素。结果发现：①区域一体化背景下长江中游城市群ULUE从2003的0.561 4增长至2015年的0.811 1，且呈现出明显的区域差异。②ULUE并非随机分布，而是具有空间上的关联特征和集群趋势。且由于不同集聚区内扩散效应在空间上渗透不均衡，其关联性主要表现为空间依赖性和空间异质性。③区域一体化背景下长江中游城市群ULUE在空间关联上具有“近水楼台先得月”和“门当户对”的特征，地理位置的空间相邻、投资消费结构和产业结构的相似是其空间关联的主要成因。     

基于供求关系的房价波动分析

基于1999—2017年中国35个大中城市的面板数据，构建基于供求关系的面板回归模型，从国家和区域两个层面对造成房价波动的原因进行探究。结果表明:价格预期在全国和区域模型中均对房价有显著的正向影响，且在大多数地区，其影响力大于其他因素；人口对房价有正向影响，但只在北部沿海、东部沿海和南部沿海显著；收入对南部沿海、黄河中游和西南地区的房价均有显著的正向影响，而在北部沿海、东部沿海、长江中游、西北地区和东北地区，该因素对房价的影响并不显著；除全国和西南、西北地区外，房屋造价作为成本因素对绝大多数地区的房价有正向影响；信贷的可获得性作为政策因素对房价有正向影响，除南部沿海和黄河中游外，在其他区域均显著；住宅开发投资与住宅价格呈负相关关系，但其只在少数经济发达地区显著。因此，未来对房地产市场的调控应根据区域房价波动影响因素的不同区别对待，因地制宜。     

木偶戏剧在幼儿园活动中运用存在的问题与对策——以山西孝义木偶戏剧为例

木偶戏剧既是我国优秀的非物质文化遗产，同时也是丰富幼儿认知、开阔幼儿眼界的重要教育资源。当前运用木偶戏剧资源开展相关活动的幼儿园数量相对较少，在有限的应用当中也存在教师自身对利用木偶戏剧资源认识不足，木偶戏剧资源利用表面化及形式化等一系列问题。本文根据孝义木偶戏剧独有的艺术特点，从木偶戏剧的欣赏活动、表演活动与制作活动三方面，对如何将孝义木偶戏剧应用到幼儿园活动进行了探讨，为幼儿园运用孝义木偶戏剧这一文化资源组织相关活动提出具体建议。     

Giving time or giving money? On the relationship between charitable contributions

This paper studies philanthropic behaviour in terms of money and time contributions for charitable organisations. Using a unique dataset, which is representative of the German population, we examine the pure contributions of individuals who give either money or time as well as joint contributions of individuals who give both money and time. We find that the sequential decisions to give to charity and how much to give can be explained by different socio-economic characteristics. We report particularly pronounced gender differences among pure contributions, an interesting pattern of human capital variables such as income and education, and possible differences in the type of philanthropic goods.     

“一带一路”背景下中国区域物流网络模型研究

选取“一带一路”重点涉及的五大区域18个地区为研究对象,利用改进引力模型测量区域物流引力大小及地区引力总量,构建区域物流网络模型。在明确现有模型的特点和“一带一路”对物流网络目标要求的基础上,考虑区域物流发展水平和区域间差异情况,给出优化方案及优化后的物流网络模型,指出中国区域物流网络存在的问题并给出合理化建议,旨为政府决策提供参考。     

幼儿园开展0-3岁早期教育服务指导的现状调查与分析——以陕西省为例

采用问卷法，面向全省范围内的幼儿园及0-3岁婴幼儿家长进行问卷调研，了解已开展过0-3岁早期教育服务指导的幼儿园基本现状，以及幼儿园对于开展0-3岁早期教育服务指导的总体意愿；了解家长在0-3岁早期教育方面的需求及现状。调查分析发现，幼儿园超半数有开展0-3岁早期教育服务指导工作的意愿；幼儿园受家长认可、最突出的优势是“办园规范，值得信赖”；服务指导最主要形式为亲子活动和托班；政策、师资、资金是所需的主要支持。据此建议应及早出台相关具体政策规范幼儿园开展0-3岁早期教育指导服务，幼儿园也应从师资、形式、内容、场地、时间等方面提升专业性、兼顾灵活性以满足家长需求，幼儿园开展0-3岁早期教育指导服务应在先总结典型经验的基础上逐步推广。