On comparing cost of living of cities using expatriate price survey

Commercial cost of living indexes, which are nominal Laspeyres price indexes derived from expatriate price surveys, are increasingly used in policy debate. However, these indexes contain two systematic errors – (1) using nominal exchange rate, instead of the purchasing power parity equivalent, cause upward biases in high income cities and (2) using a fixed basket causes upward biases in cities with different consumption pattern – that make them unfit for the purpose of policy debate if the errors are serious enough. Using a real Fisher index corrects these systemic errors. We showed high congruence in pair-wise comparison between these two indexes, but substantial differences in ranking arising from the systematic errors. Commercial indexes are useful for designing expatriate compensation, but we need a real Fisher index to calculate and rank the cost of living among cities.     

Socio-economical analysis of Italy: The case of hagiotoponym cities

This paper considers joining the economical characteristics of Italian cities with a relevant sociological aspect of the Catholic saints. More than in other countries, a high percentage of Italian cities are toponyms coming from the name of specific saints (hagiotoponym). The link with Italian religious views is distinct. The statistical analysis of the economic contributions that each hagiotoponym city provides to the Italian GDP is considered. Such an analysis is also based on the comparison with Italian data and is considered with the Theil, Gini, and Herfindahl-Hirschman indices. It is obtained that hagiotoponym cities represent a proxy of the overall Italian reality of medium-sized cities in the case of outliers removal.     

基于GARCH模型的沪深300股指期货对现货市场波动性研究

文章用全球金融危机全面爆发以来的样本数据,基于GARCH模型分析了沪深300股指期货上市前后我国股票价格指数的波动性,并对其信息传递功能进行了探讨.结果发现:沪深300股指期货的上市使得现货市场上的信息传递速度加快;总体来看,沪深300股指期货的上市在一定程度上降低了现货市场的波动性,但统计意义上并不显著,原因在于我国股指期货微观结构不完善,其功能尚未完全发挥.     

我国妇女发展状况评估——基于家庭领域性别平等指标体系

本文根据我国全面建设小康社会、和谐社会、妇女发展纲要的要求，从国情出发，参照反映家庭领域中性别平等与妇女发展的国际常用指标，尝试构建了家庭领域性别平等与妇女发展的指标体系。运用该指标体系，对我国家庭领域性别平等与妇女发展状况作出评估与分析。研究结果表明，目前我国家庭领域性别平等与妇女发展水平均处于中等发展程度，与健康、教育和经济领域的性别平等与妇女发展水平相比，家庭领域的性别平等与妇女发展还相对滞后，女性在家庭中的传统角色以及男女两性家庭责任分担模式还没有发生根本性的改变。     

林业产业循环经济的评价指标体系

“十一五期间,发展循环经济,是改变我国经济增长方式的必然选择,针对林业产业的可持续经营问题,构建赋有林业特色的循环经济指标体系,是林业可持续经营的关键所在。利用循环经济的思想及手段,是林业产业经营永续发展的必由之路。根据循环经济“3R”原则确定林业社会的经济、林业经营、社会、生态的指标体系。对于重新规范林业经济的内涵和林业产业的发展方向具有重要意义。从全方位角度来思考指标体系的设定,用专家打分法和人工神经网络相结合的双重计算方法,根据体系的动态程度计算其权值,是保证规范林区社会和谐发展的一种方法。指标体系设定的科学性、系统性、全面性,超出了原有林业经济的范畴,为当前林业社会发展循环经济提出了指标评估和表现体系。     

Quantifying fear: The social impact of terrorism

This paper proposes a methodology to measure social impact of terrorism. We define a multidimensional terrorism index based not only on deaths but also on other variables such as injuries, bombs and kidnappings. The weight of each terrorist activity is given by its social impact, which is estimated through its relevance in the media. For this task we build up a new data set from the four most important newspapers in Spain, namely, El País, El Mundo, ABC, and La Vanguardia. Finally, we evaluate the social impact of ETA terrorism in Spain from 1993 through 2004.     

黑龙江省零售业整体竞争力测评

经过20多年的改革开放,黑龙江省零售业已进入快速发展阶段。黑龙江省零售业市场结构存在着市场集中度低,产品差异性小,过度进入等诸多问题,制约了零售业的健康持续发展,严重影响了零售企业的竞争力。因此,我省应该制定相应的产业组织政策,通过提高进入壁垒,培育大型零售企业和企业集团,提高市场集中度等措施来培育黑龙江省零售业有效竞争模式,增强我省零售业的竞争力。     

和谐社会评价指标体系的构建

构建和谐社会需要建立一套科学、合理、适用的综合评价指标体系。本文分析了和谐社会的科学内涵和基本特征,然后根据建立指标体系的若干原则,提出了由7类37个具体指标组成的指标体系,并提出了确定指标权重、标准值以及进行综合评价的基本方法。     

On The Meaning Of Owen–Banzhaf Coalitional Value In Voting Situations

In this paper we discuss the meaning of Owen's coalitional extension of the Banzhaf index in the context of voting situations. It is discussed the possibility of accommodating this index within the following model: in order to evaluate the likelihood of a voter to be crucial in making a decision by means of a voting rule a second input (apart from the rule itself) is necessary: an estimate of the probability of different vote configurations. It is shown how Owen's coalitional extension can be seen as three different normative variations of this model.     

以时间为基础的国民幸福核算的实证分析——以北京市为例

本文借鉴普林斯顿大学艾伦·克鲁格教授、丹尼尔·卡尼曼教授以及他们的研究团队提出的最新理论成果:国民时间核算(NTA)方法,以北京市居民为调查研究对象,采用日期重构法(DRM)设计了电话调查问卷,并以此调查结果为数据依托,对衡量幸福感的U指数进行了测算与因素分析,依据分析结果提出了提高北京市民幸福水平的建议。     

新产品概念的评价与选择

吸引力是评价新产品概念的综合性指标,它由核心吸引力和扩张吸引力构成。在高技术产业中,投资回收期的引入使吸引力指标的评价更具有实践指导意义。理念化程度是评价新产品概念的另一个重要指标,理念化的产品概念融入公司的愿景,成为企业文化的一个核心要素和经营理念的一个基本组成。有效地评价和选择新产品概念,保证新产品开发和创业投资的成功与高效率,要有足够数量的备选产品概念供选择。     

The primary-goods indexation problem in Rawls's theory of justice

Rawls's Difference Principle holds that basic social institutions are just if they maximize the worst-off individual's potential welfare, which depends on the vector of amounts of primary goods. As Rawls recognized, the multiplicity of primary goods poses an index number problem. This paper uses the machinery of social choice to characterize the class of procedures for aggregating quantities of several primary goods into a composite ordinal index that are consistent with Rawls's analysis. Only very simple and unattractive aggregation methods in which the various primary goods play roles of radically different magnitudes are compatible with Rawls's argument.     

县域义务教育均衡发展测度指标与方法的研究

县域义务教育的均衡发展首先是教育资源配置的均衡。基于此,选择县域义务教育均衡发展测度指标,利用统计学中方差、标准差及变异系数等测度离散程度工具,构建测度县域义务教育均衡发展度的指标体系与方法。研究试图定量描述县域义务教育静态均衡发展度,同时指出测度县域义务教育均衡度时应注意的问题。     

构建企业人力资本投资效益指标体系初探

由于人力资本投资除可获得其自身投资报酬外 ,它还具有投资效益的多样性、外部性、间接性、滞后性的特征 ,因此对企业人力资本投资效益用单一的投资效益指标来进行定量描述和综合评价是不可取的。我们要进行系统、客观地描述和评价企业人力资本投资 ,就必须建立一套科学的人力资本投资效益指标体系。     

农产品品牌竞争力评价指标体系及评价方法的构建

农业品牌化是农业工业化和现代化的重要标志,也是提高农产品质量安全水平和市场竞争力的重要途径。我国正处在农业品牌化的初级阶段,对农产品品牌竞争力评价的探讨是农业品牌化理论研究的重要组成部分,也将在实践上对农产品品牌竞争力的提高起到积极的引导和促进作用。文章经过理论分析构建了以市场评价和质量评价为主,兼顾效益评价和潜力评价的农产品品牌评价指标体系,并采用了层次分析法确定指标权重,用综合评分法确定分值,得出对农产品品牌竞争力的相对评价。     

北京绿色建筑指标体系及规划实施途径研究

当前,北京经济社会发展处于一个关键时期。转变经济发展方式,改善人们的生活环境刻不容缓。"十二五"期间节能减排任务相当严峻,全市建设3500万平方米绿色建筑急需技术支撑和政策引导。北京的绿色建筑工作充分发挥城市规划统筹引领作用,围绕"四节一环保"这一核心,在理论研究和案例实践的基础上,首次构建了低碳生态规划与绿色建筑相关联的指标体系。     

The Dynamic Deprivation Index: measuring relative socio-economic deprivation in NZ on a monthly basis

The standard measures of relative socio-economic deprivation within New Zealand are the NZDEP studies and the NZ IMD. Although both sets of studies are extremely rigorous, high quality research outputs they are only able to provide a snapshot of the national distribution of relative socio-economic deprivation at fixed points in time. The inability to express deprivation levels as an extended and current time series means that not only are policy analysts and researchers working with outdated information, but also that it is often unfeasible to associate changes in deprivation levels to specific events or policy implementations. The Dynamic Deprivation Index (DDI) assigns a deprivation score and deprivation index to each area unit in New Zealand on a monthly basis. In this paper we look to describe the methodology behind the construction of the DDI and to validate the results therein. We argue that if public bodies were to make the data they hold more easily accessible, then there is no reason why New Zealand should not be able to benefit from a measure of socio-economic deprivation that combines the sophistication of the NZDEP studies or IMD with the contemporaneousness of the DDI.     

Calculable Power: A Case Study of IMF Quotas and Voting Rights Reform*

Voting procedure is an important mechanism for public choice in collective bodies such as international organizations. This paper measures and compares IMF member countries’ voting power before the 2008 reform and after the 2010 reform on the basis of datasets on IMF quotas and voting rights distribution provided by IMF. Our study verifies that IMF’s quotas and voting rights reforms do help to reduce the voting power gap among member countries. The 2008 and 2010 reforms produce a greater improvement in emerging members’ voting power under the 70 percent majority rule than the 85 percent rule; the 70 percent majority rule means the United States would lose its absolute veto. Moreover, the paper disproves the underlying assumption that regards a member’s voting power as proportional to its voting rights. Countries with different amounts of voting rights can still have the same voting power.     

A contingency theory of corruption: The effect of human development and national culture

Corruption is a world-wide problem that disproportionately affects those with the fewest personal and economic resources. It was hypothesized that human development restricts corruption, and the magnitude of such an effect is contingent upon the conditions of national culture. Measures were gathered for 68 countries that account for 80% of the world's population. Support was found for the main effect of human development on corruption. Consistent with contingency theory, results also indicate that the relation between human development and corruption is moderated by power distance and individualism. Implications for policy making to reduce corruption are discussed.     

北京和东京男女生活时间差异比较研究

本文运用北京和日本东京的生活时间分配调查资料,从生活时间分配角度分析比较了社会经济发展阶段等不同的两个城市居民生活活动的性别差异。研究表明,提高受教育水平和就业水平,对于提高社会成员特别是女性的社会地位、家庭地位,实现男女平等具有重要意义。