房地产价格影响因素分析:基于中国各省市的面板数据的实证研究

本文应用1999-2006年全国31个省市的面板数据,分析了影响中国房地产价格的各种因素。影响房价的因素众多,笔者主要选取了供给方、需求方、地方政府以及一些主要的货币政策变量进行理论分析,并结合中国房地产的实际提出相应假说。实证结果显示,房价推动力的主要来源是需求方,而地方政府对房价的影响也不可忽视,而供给方和货币政策的相关变量对房价影响相对较小,其中名义利率对房价不具有显著影响,而实际利率影响较显著。依据笔者的实证结论,本文提供了一些相应的对房价调控的政策建议。     

经济适用住房成本控制体系问题及对策

本文从总结现阶段经济适用房建设的基本模式入手,分析了经济适用房建设中住房成本控制体系中存在的主要问题及其原因,最后提出了若干对策。     

基于竞争战略的企业债务融资决策分析

从竞争战略角度出发,运用价格竞争模型,分析了在产品市场存在不确定因素时债务对产品价格的战略作用;建立了两种情况下的债务战略效应模型,并得出了不同行业企业中选择债务的一般方法,为企业的债务融资决策提供了基于竞争战略角度的新思路。     

浅析资产证券化在我国的发展及对策

对于银行资产负债结构的改善具有极其重要的作用 ,它是近几十年来国际金融领域中最重要的一种金融创新。但资产证券化在我国的出现只是近几年的事情 ,而且进展步伐一直比较缓慢。为了刺激消费、启动内需和建立现代商业银行体系等 ,资产证券化已成为我国现实的必需。资产证券化应在政府的大力扶持下 ,从成立银行之间贷款买卖市场开始有序展开 ,通过试点后逐步推广     

论"低于成本价销售行为"的正当性

分析了反不正当竞争法对“低于成本价销售行为”的规定 ,以及企业的价格权和我国的基本国情 ,比较了“低于成本价销售行为”与国际倾销的区别。认为“低于成本价销售行为”是经营者自主行使其价格权的行为 ,具有一定的正当性 ,法律不应予以禁止。     

谈建设工程造价的全过程控制

建设项目工程造价管理的基本内容就是合理确定和有效地控制工程造价．本文对如何做到“事前把关、过程与动态管理为特征”的全过程控制进行了论述．     

Affine LIBOR models driven by real-valued affine processes

The class of affine LIBOR models is appealing since it satisfies three central requirements of interest rate modeling. It is arbitrage-free, interest rates are nonnegative, and caplet and swaption prices can be calculated analytically. In order to guarantee nonnegative interest rates affine LIBOR models are driven by nonnegative affine processes, a restriction that makes it hard to produce volatility smiles. We modify the affine LIBOR models in such a way that real-valued affine processes can be used without destroying the nonnegativity of interest rates. Numerical examples show that in this class of models, pronounced volatility smiles are possible.     

Moving On From Supportive Housing (MOSH): Development and evaluation of a transitional skill-building curriculum for providers helping residents exit homeless services

This article describes the development and evaluation of MOSH (Moving On From Supportive Housing), a transitional skill-building curriculum for providers helping residents exit homeless services to mainstream housing without embedded supports. In this evaluation, we assess the feasibility, acceptability, fit, and potential efficacy of the MOSH curriculum to improve proximal provider-level outcomes, including self-efficacy to provide MOSH-related independent living skills and supports. Homeless-services providers (N = 49) from a range of programs and settings participated in the training. Findings from focus groups and pre- and posttest surveys indicate high levels of overall satisfaction with the training. The majority of trainees perceived the training to be useful to their work and potentially useful for service recipients, felt the training would fit well within their existing day-to-day work, and said they were very likely to use MOSH skills in such work. Statistically significant improvements in self-efficacy regarding all skills but one were also found. MOSH holds promise as an intervention that can enhance provider practice and promotion of independent living skills in homeless services. Although these initial findings on MOSH are encouraging, further research will be needed to evaluate provider knowledge gains and effective use of these skills in practice.     

Dual conditionality in welfare and housing for lone parents in Ireland: Change and continuity?

This article focuses on multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing from the perspective of lone parents in Ireland. The Irish case echoes historical experiences elsewhere and is offered not as an exceptional or extreme case but as an in-depth single case study and a lens for comparison. Although contemporary forms and combinations of conditionalities are new to Ireland, the experience of multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing is not new. Hence, a historical perspective is used to examine contemporary multiple conditionalities in benefits and housing. In the past, conditional regimes for lone parents were justified in terms of moral reformation for first time mothers and avoiding moral contagion of mothers with subsequent pregnancies. In contemporary times, in the case of employment, lone parents are problematised as working part-time and “nesting” on in-work-benefits, and in the case of homelessness, lone parents who prioritise the security of tenure embedded in social housing are accused of “gaming” the system. While acknowledging ambiguities, the paper finds the overlap of welfare and housing discourses contribute, intentionally or unintentionally, to epistemological foundations or understandings of lone parents, shifting public perceptions, and framing them as “problems” to be solved. They simultaneously temper lone parents' expectations. Increased precarity and disempowerment is associated with dual conditionality, and ontological uncertainty is multiplied when experienced cumulatively across employment, social protection, and housing regimes in a context of generally poor public services and labour market precarity and in the historical context of stigmatisation. Nonetheless, lone parents demonstrate considerable agency.     

Experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum in Australia: A review of published and “grey” literature

This review examines the current published and “grey” literature relating to the experiences of homelessness by people seeking asylum within Australia. While many people seeking asylum have experienced homelessness during their flight, inadequate and unaffordable housing are a feature of the settlement experience for a large number of new arrivals to Australia, putting at risk their successful settlement. This study aims to explore the factors influencing access to stable housing. A systematic review of the academic literature and a search of the grey literature identified 11 articles and 20 documents related to homelessness and people seeking asylum in Australia. The academic literature included a variety of methods and approaches to the investigation of the experience of homelessness in Australia. The grey literature was more practice based, including evaluation and research reports, submissions, and newsletters. Findings suggest that experiences of homelessness are multifaceted and have a range of influences, including policy, financial stress, lack of access to education and employment, and a lack of affordable and suitable housing. Any solutions to address homelessness need to be similarly diverse. Discrimination from real estate agents and employers was also identified as a barrier to housing for many people seeking asylum, an issue that will need to be addressed at a systematic level. The lack of research published in the academic literature means that although there may be some programmes or solutions operating in the community, as demonstrated in the grey literature, this information is not being shared beyond organisation websites or subscriber lists, resulting in a lack of coherency or sharing of solutions. This review highlights the need for further attention to the factors influencing homelessness in asylum seekers, the experience of homelessness, and how these can be addressed by government and non-government led strategies and policy development.