Information Acquisition and Voluntary Disclosure in an Export‐Processing System

We study a strategic information management problem in the export‐processing trade, where the buyer controls the raw material input and sales and the producer is responsible for production. The production is vulnerable to random yield risk. The producer can exert a costly effort to acquire the private yield rate information and discretionarily share it with the buyer. We develop a sequential Bayesian game model that captures three key features of the system—endogenous information endowment, voluntary disclosure, and ex post information sharing—a significant departure from the literature. The optimal disclosure strategy is driven by the trade‐off between the gains from Pareto efficiency improvement and self‐interested overproduction. It is specified by two thresholds on yield rate: only the middle‐yield producers (with yield rate between these two thresholds) share private information to improve supply‐demand match; the low‐ and high‐yield producers withhold information to extract excess input from the buyer. The buyer in response penalizes nondisclosure with reduced input and rewards information sharing with a larger order. This strategic interaction is further exacerbated by the double marginalization effect from decentralization, resulting in severe efficiency loss. We examine the effectiveness of three corrective mechanisms—vertical integration, mandatory disclosure, and production restriction—and reveal the costs of information suppressive effect and overinvestment incentive and the benefit from concessions on the processing fee. Our study endogenizes the asymmetric supply risk and provides the first attempt to rationalize the strategic interactions of informational and operational incentives in the export‐processing system.     

Levels of Support from Children in Taiwan: Expectations versus Reality, 1965–99

Both population aging and the socioeconomic changes that often accompany it have effects on intergenerational arrangements. As a result, assessing the evolving social contract among family members is a key part of the research agenda. Studies monitoring these effects and other consequences are relatively new. Another way to gain insight is through a historical analysis that (a) traces how expectations for old‐age support have changed over recent decades for cohorts advancing through their life cycle, and (b) measures how well expectations accord with actual patterns. This article uses a series of fertility surveys in Taiwan from 1965 to the 1990s to trace expectations for coresidence among cohorts of young married women and to compare these expectations with the actual living arrangements observed in surveys of the elderly in the 1990s. The results indicate sharp shifts in expectations for each of the cohorts as they aged. These shifts reflect a response to respondents' own life course events and the changing socioeconomic environment and show large and persistent differentials by education throughout the period. These factors tend to bring expectations into fairly close concordance with the actual living arrangements observed some years later.     

鲁迅及其作品的大学教学

大学里关于鲁迅及其作品的教学状况并不理想,大学生对鲁迅的接受情况不容乐观.大学中文课程日益应用性实用性的取向,构成了对文学基础课课时的大幅度压缩,这使对鲁迅的讲解无从展开.而具体的讲解又往往过于看重研究性、学术性,这亦不利于本科生走近鲁迅.鉴于此,本文提出批注式的细读,利用影像、网络等现代资源,挖掘鲁迅作品的人文主义内涵,突出其作为精神资源的价值等具体教学对策.     

水资源有效配置中产权问题的研究

依据南水北调中线工程法制建设研究课题的发现 ,研究了水资源产权和水资源优化配置的辩证关系 ,在分析我国水资源产权现状的基础上 ,提出了深化我国水资源产权改革的建议     

面向知识经济的高校教育创新

讨论了知识经济的定义,认为知识经济是以知识和高素质人才为基础的经济;分析了知识经济对我国高等教育的挑战,认为推行创造教育,培养创造性人才,是高校面临的一项根本任务;对比了继承本位与创造本位理念的不同,强调培养创造性人才需要自由思想的空间,平等环境的熏陶和自由选择的机制。因此,创造教育需要通过教育创新才能实现。     

对高校学报策划工作的思考

策划工作是高校学报工作的中心环节,学报策划工作是市场经济发展的必然要求.高校学报编辑要重视和加强学报策划工作,并且要处理好一切与之相关的问题.     

《化工热力学》教学中应把握的几个问题

结合多年从事<化工热力学>教学的经验,就搞好热力学教学谈了几点看法把握该门课程处理问题的一般方法,抓住热力学分析的两条主线,补充必要的数学知识,力求教学内容过渡自然、流畅;善于概括热力学方程的规律,将枯燥的公式形象化;开展专题讨论,使学生了解该领域的最新进展,激发学生的学习兴趣,将所学知识融会贯通.     

应用潜在语义分析，探析认知科学

潜在语义分析是美国20世纪90年代发展起来的一种信息提取技术.文章对其原理和结构进行了分析,并对其在认知科学的应用,主要集中在文本理解和人类如何获取知识、归纳知识和表述知识方面进行了探讨,最后说明了潜在语义分析模式的意义.     

实体主义和现象主义

实体主义和现象主义是贯穿西方哲学发展的一条主线。西方哲学从古希腊开始就以求知求真为其主题。这种知识主义必然发展为实体主义。实体主义作为西方传统哲学的主要思维模式 ,以世界的二重化为前提 ,以追求世界万物的根底———本质为宗旨。康德开创了西方哲学的现象主义路线 ,以现象思维取代实体思维 ,是对实体主义的超越。在现代西方哲学的转向中 ,现象主义主要是围绕反对主客二分和本质主义的形而上学开展的     

制度反腐败论

反腐败靠什么 ?反思现行反腐败机制 ,正视现实、借鉴历史、探求理论 ,走出重刑主义误区 ,正确认识刑罚在惩治腐败中的作用是十分必要的。编制严密的制度之网是反腐败的基本保障 ,严密的制度包含对公职人员监控、提高公职人员素质、健全惩治腐败制度等内容。反腐败制度体系的实现途径离不开完善社会主义市场经济体制、实施依法治国基本方略两大重要背景