Trade options for a small open economy: The different impact of Taiwan exports to China and to other countries

This study aims to explore advantageous trade arrangements for a small open economy. To discover the arrangement, the fundamental question to ask is how trade affects a small economy. Due to the differential factor mobility, the two main streams of trade theory—new economic geography and comparative advantage—make divergent predictions of trade effects. This study identifies the differences in factor mobility and distinguishes the differential impacts of exports to China and other countries on Taiwan’s manufacturing clusters. Using Taiwan’s 2006 and 2011 census data and trade statistics, this study applies the two-stage least squares method to test the differential impacts. The findings reveal that the growth in Taiwan’s exports to other countries significantly increased the employment level of manufacturing clusters in Taiwan. However, such effects have not been found for exports to China. The lack of response in Taiwan’s local employment to exports to China can be inferred as a short-term exhibition of the long-run core-periphery effect. The policy implication of this study is that trade involving low factor mobility is more beneficial than that involving high factor mobility for a small open economy. Thus, for a small economy, trade liberalization that will ‘not’ attract large factor outflows from the small economy is more desirable.     

地方国有邮电通信企业偿债能力的综合分析与评价

应用因子分析法对地方国有邮电通信企业偿债能力进行了多因素下的综合分析与评价，介绍了分析与评价过程。     

Information Systems Management Issues: Reporting and Relevance*

Reports of key information systems issues have been published over the last two decades in many journals. Leading IS journals (e.g., MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, among others) have published key IS management issue reports every three or four years over the last 15 years, and will probably continue to provide such reports in the future. Although these reports claim to provide decisional guidance to practitioners, researchers, consultants, etc., the authors in their experience have noted concerns about their usefulness. While not questioning the validity of the methods and analysis conducted in these studies, we address two important questions in this article: the manner of reporting of the key issue results (which might be misleading), and the relevance of the results (are they providing what they intended to?). We hope that our discussion will provide new perspectives in making resource allocation decisions to both readers and authors of key issue articles.     

体育用品制造业空间集聚与全要素生产率变化——理论机理与实证检验

体育用品制造业是我国国民经济中具有相当体量规模的重要产业，也是深化供给侧结构性改革的主战场。运用Malmquist生产率指数法测算2004—2013年15个省区体育用品制造业全要素生产率，结果显示:体育用品制造业全要素生产率年均增长3.7%，技术变化是增长动力源泉。基于动态面板回归模型的结果显示，主营业务收入区位熵、企业平均资产规模、区域人口平均受教育年限均对体育用品制造业全要素生产率有显著正向影响。指出，新常态下我国体育用品制造业应坚持走集群化、规模化、集约化的发展道路。     

快速成形件精度的影响因素及对策

快速成形是现代制造业快速响应市场必备的过程--快速成形前处理、分层叠加成形、后处理,对影响快速成形所制作的模型(快速成形件)精度的影响因素作了全面的分析.最后提出了提高快速成形件精度的对策.