Chinatown 2.0: the difficult flowering of an ethnically themed shopping area

Right in Amsterdam’s picturesque Canal Zone, on and around Zeedijk, Chinese entrepreneurs have carved out a presence in what seems like the local Chinatown. The businessmen have been targeting Asian and non-Asian customers by offering products that – to an extent – can be associated with Asia, China in particular. Since the early 1990s, individual entrepreneurs and their business organisations have campaigned for official acknowledgement of Zeedijk as an ethnic-only district and for governmental support of the enhancement of Chineseness. Following Hackworth and Rekers. [(2005). “Ethnic Packaging and Gentrification. The Case of Four Neighborhoods in Toronto.” Urban Affairs Review 41 (2): 211–236], we argue that this case challenges traditional understandings of ethnic commercial landscapes. In sharp contrast to the current orthodoxy, which would conceive the proliferation of such an ‘ethnic enclave’ as part of a larger process of assimilation, we have approached Amsterdam’s Chinatown first and foremost as a themed economic space: Chinese and other entrepreneurs compete for a share of the market and in doing also for the right to claim the identity of the area. What is the historical development of the Zeedijk area, how did Chinese entrepreneurs and their associations try to boost Chinatown and negotiate public Chineseness, and how did governmental and non-governmental institutional actors respond to those attempts?     

重庆市县域商品房价格时空变化特征研究——基于空间统计分析法

以2005—2015年重庆市38个区（县）商品房价格数据为样本，利用空间自相关等空间统计分析方法对重庆市县域商品房价格的空间分布和时空演变特征进行研究。研究结果表明：渝东北地区商品房价格稳定性相对最好，渝西地区次之，渝东南地区再次之，主城区商品房价格稳定性最差；重庆市商品房价格具有较强的空间集聚性，但随着时间的推移，空间集聚性逐渐减弱，商品房价格空间差异逐渐缩小；重庆市商品房价格区域差异呈现明显的空间二元结构，房地产发展热点区域主要集中于主城九区，远郊区县的房地产发展相对缓慢。     

商个人破产能力的正当性论证

基于历史沿革和域外借鉴的个人破产制度正当性论证曾受诸多质疑,法理根据的找寻和论证或能提供有力支持。商事法律对商法人失败退出的许可构成特殊保护,在商个人主体勃兴时代,商事法律应回归平等保护的本源,赋予商个人平等的退出机会;而商个人作为自然人所拥有的基本权利,造就了商个人失败退出时不同于商法人退出的制度目标。以此为基础,通过分析商个人破产制度理念和具体规则中对商个人经济权利保护的体现,论证赋予商个人破产能力的理论正当性;并通过分析赋予商个人破产能力对不同类别权利产生的良好平衡效果,以及我国现阶段接纳个人破产制度的基础条件,证明赋予商个人破产能力具有实践合理性。     

保险素养、收入差异与农民商业保险参与

乡村振兴战略的实施激发了农民在“医、养、住、行”等方面对美好生活的追求,与之对应的各类保险保障需求也随之涌现。对保险素养影响农民商业保险参与的机理进行了阐释,并使用陕西省565户农户的调查数据,实证检验了保险素养对农民商业保险参与选择的影响,以及农民个人收入差异对保险素养影响其商业保险参与的调节效应。研究表明,保险素养会显著促使农民商业保险参与概率增加3.1%。此外,个人经济收入差异对保险素养促进农民商业保险参与并未发挥出调节作用,即提升个人收入水平并不会增强保险素养对农民商业保险参与的促进作用。因此,有必要采取提高农民保险素养、有针对性地开发设计符合农民诉求的保险产品等措施促进农民商业保险消费,进而促进商业保险在农村地区的发展。     

结构性货币政策工具对农商银行风险承担的影响

基于2014—2018年21家农商银行的微观数据构建动态面板模型,采用系统广义矩估计方法分析结构性货币政策工具对农商银行风险承担的影响。研究发现:结构性货币政策工具对农商银行风险承担的影响差异显著,银行层面变量对农商银行风险承担的影响差异显著,宏观经济层面变量对农商银行风险承担的影响差异显著。据此,提出优化货币政策工具、健全宏观监管体系、提升风险监管能力等对策,以有效控制结构性货币政策工具对农村商业银行风险承担的影响,维护宏观金融市场的稳定。     

唐宋时期回族先民对西北商业经济的开发与贡献

重视商业经济,是伊斯兰教的特点之一。唐宋时期,伴随着伊斯兰教的传入,回族先民对西北商业经济进行了开发。他们一方面继承了阿拉伯商业的传统,另一方面在新的环境下,又有所创新、有所发展。在长期不断的开发中,为西北区域经济的繁荣与发展,做出了重要的贡献。     

近代广东商业人群在广西的分布面及其梯度差考详——粤港商业经济对广西经济辐射研究之二

文章从中国近代史上城镇经济主体——商业经济的角度切入,运用各类历史资料,分区逐县地确证广东商业人群以及所造成的“无东不成市”格局在全广西的分布范围,并揭示其在广西不同地域的程度等差和梯度分布状态。从而,以原始的生活场景原生态地呈现出粤港澳地区对广西经济辐射由东而西逐步推进、由城市而圩市逐层次渗透的基本节奏和客观规律。     

松州商贸的历史考察

本文以松州历史上的贸易为考察对象 ,使我们了解到历史上的松州在商贸上曾经有过的兴盛及其商贸衰亡的原因。     

Efficiency measures of the Chinese commercial banking system using an additive two-stage DEA

Measuring and improving the efficiency of the Chinese commercial banking system has recently attracted increasing interest. Few studies, however, have adopted the two-stage network DEA to explore this issue in the Chinese context. Because the entire operational process of the banking system could be divided into two sub-processes (deposit producing and profit earning), the evaluation of the sub-process efficiencies could be used to assist in identifying the sources of the inefficiency of the entire banking system. In this study, we utilize the network DEA approach to disaggregate, evaluate and test the efficiencies of 16 major Chinese commercial banks during the third round of the Chinese banking reform period (2003–2011) with the variable returns to scale setting and the consideration of undesirable/bad output. The main findings of this study are as follows: (i) the two-stage DEA model is more effective than the conventional black box DEA model in identifying the inefficiency of banking system, and the inefficiency of the Chinese banking system primarily results from the inefficiency of its deposit producing sub-process; (ii) the overall efficiency of the Chinese banking system improves over the study period because of the reform; (iii) the state-owned commercial banks (SOBs) appear to be more overall efficient than the joint-stock commercial banks (JSBs) only in the pre-reform period, and the efficiency difference between the SOBs and the JSBs is reduced over the post-reform period; (iv) the disposal of non-performing loans (NPLs) from the Chinese banking system in general explains its efficiency improvement, and the joint-equity reform of the SOBs specifically increases their efficiencies.     

商业网站项目实战课程模式改革初探

本文依据高等职业教育的教学改革理念及国外课堂教学改革的经验借鉴，以信息技术专业教学为例，探讨高职工科课程教学模式改革思路。高等职业教育的宗旨是以综合职业能力培养为核心和促进人的全面发展，依托此目标高职教育课程模式的实践探索对于高等职业教育IT类课程模式的改革和发展具有重要的意义。