出口企业转型与企业的经营表现

 文章运用基于倍差法的倾向评分匹配估计方法从企业微观层面分析了出口企业转型对其经营表现的作用。结果表明：高度外销型企业转型为中度外销型企业以及中度外销型企业转型为低度外销型企业对企业经营表现的影响主要体现于其会显著地增加企业的负债额进而恶化其财务状况，二者不显著影响企业的劳动生产率和产出。高度外销型企业转型为低度外销型企业对企业经营表现的影响主要体现于其会显著地提高企业的劳动生产率，这种转型行为并不显著影响企业的产出和财务状况。尽管如此，由于其对企业的产出并不产生显著作用，因此由于该转型行为所获得的劳动生产率的提升同时也会减少企业的就业。     

Nonadaptive group testing with lies: Probabilistic existence theorems

We consider a wide range of combinatorial group testing problems with lies including binary, additive and multiaccess channel group testing problems. We derive upper bounds for the number of tests in the optimal nonadaptive algorithms. The derivation is probabilistic and is therefore non-constructive; it does not provide the way of constructing optimal algorithms. In the asymptotic setting, we show that the leading term for the number of tests does not depend on the number of lies and it is thus the same as for the zero-lie case. However, the other terms in the asymptotic upper bounds depend on the number of lies and substantially influence the upper bounds in the non-asymptotic situation.     

全球金融危机时期美元走势研究

美元是美国实力和地位的标志。美元霸权的根本在于支撑美国的全球霸权。美元指数在2007年中延续了2001年以来的下行走势，受美国经济衰退及次贷危机影响，目前再度大幅下跌。随着美国华尔街金融危机的不断深化，美元跌势依旧，以美元为本位的国际货币金融体系正在遭受布雷顿森林体系崩溃以来最严峻的一场考验。尽管美元霸权地位短期内还不会终结，但种种潜流表明，其日渐式微的体系运转正在悄然敲响一个货币帝国时代的晚钟。     

试论市场经济成熟条件下商品流通渠道功能的变异

在市场经济发育和成长的不同阶段，商品流通渠道的功能将随着渠道组织结构、渠道管理水平、消费方式、渠道设施、信息技术等因素的变化而出现变异。在市场经济初级阶段，流通渠道的基本功能就是连接生产与消费，促成商品销售，实现商品价值。在市场经济的完善和成熟阶段，流通渠道将越来越多地引导生产和消费，通过商流、物流、信息流的传导与组织，挖掘和创造商品的新价值，提升原有商品的价值，从而使“渠道价值”越来越大。本文主要论述渠道功能在不同阶段的差异及表现。     

农户借贷约束与供求缺口弥补路径分析

通过对江苏省无锡市与扬州市两地农户入户调查与访谈结果显示,在经济发达地区,经济转型伴随着农户行为商业化,农户借贷与传统农区及经济欠发达地区存在较大差异。信息不对称、高交易费用、抵押资产缺乏流动性是约束农户借贷的主要因素。     

The role of identity-based motivation and solution-focus brief therapy in unifying accounts and financial education in school-related CDA programs

This article focuses on unifying, seemingly at times, disparate aspects of school-related Child Development Account (CDA) programs in order to maximize their effects. Account ownership and financial education are the two key components of school-related CDA programs. Despite this most of the focus by asset theorists and researchers has been on the account ownership side of CDAs. To unify these two components we use identity-based motivation (IBM) theory. Further, we suggest that early experience with money failures and lack of positive role models results in many lower income and minority children entering CDA programs with low financial efficacy. Because of low financial efficacy, we suggest that in order for financial education programs to be successful among lower income and minority children they need to be designed to address this reality. We posit that a way to address the reality of lower income and minority students is to adopt solution-focus brief therapy (SFBT) techniques. These techniques can be used to teach financial education instructors how to build positive financial efficacy beliefs among lower income and minority children.     

Financial Hardship and Emergency Relief in Victoria

Abstract

The existence and provision of emergency relief remains one of the more contentious aspects of poverty relief in Australia. This is largely due to a fundamental difference of opinion within government and the welfare sector about how to best tackle the financial hardship being experienced by people in need. Some contend that emergency relief should be expanded and better funded by the Commonwealth, whereas others believe it should be discontinued altogether and replaced by more generous social welfare payments. This debate continues unresolved for a number of reasons, including a lack of reliable and comprehensive data on who uses emergency relief in Australia and why. This paper reports on a State-wide investigation undertaken of emergency relief use in Victoria between 2007 and 2008. It has found that existing social welfare recipients—especially those on the disability support pension, parenting payment, and Newstart allowance—are the main users of emergency relief, who are living in households headed by a single adult, and forced to rent housing in the private sector. A disaggregation of the findings over both time and spatial regions of Victoria suggests that the level of need is not uniform. Several recommendations are offered to address the financial hardship that some people living in differing parts of Victoria face on an ongoing basis.     

区域金融发展水平与技术创新能力关系的实证研究——来自陕西省的数据

在我国由于区域经济发展水平不同,金融发展与技术创新之间的关系存在较大的地域差异性。本文选取陕西省1991-2011年的数据,通过计算样本期内各年金融相关率以及基于DEA的Malmuquist生产率模型测算技术进步指数,对金融发展和技术创新之间的关系进行实证检验。结果表明陕西省金融发展水平和技术创新能力并不存在Granger因果关系,没有实现如西方市场国家那样两者的良性互动关系,金融本身的发展并未构成技术创新发展必要的基础条件,金融发展对技术创新的渗透力、影响力与推动力有待加强。     

The impact of globalization and financial development on India’s income inequality

This paper empirically examines the combined effects of globalization and financial development on income inequality in a unified framework for an emerging economy. Using annual data for the Indian economy over the period 1980–2014, we show that the perceived benefits of globalization and financial development have not trickled down; rather, has aggravated income inequality. Our results also indicate that while inflation aggravates income inequality, education seems to alleviate the differential effect. Proactive measures in providing access to financial services, creating equitable employment opportunities, and improving the quality of education are required to offset the negative impacts of globalization and financial development on income disparity.