FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND COUNTRY‐SPECIFIC HUMAN CAPITAL

This paper exploits an international bilateral data set over the period 1963–1998 to investigate the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign‐educated labor in an FDI host country. Workers educated abroad acquire country‐specific human capital that is more productive in the host country of study. A foreign subsidiary sharing a parent firm's technology will invest more if it has more foreign‐educated labor, since it can utilize this labor more productively because of the country‐specific human capital. Consistent with our predictions, our empirical findings show that foreign‐educated labor accounted for a sizable portion of growth in FDI flows. (JEL F21, F10)     

朝鲜王朝古地图中的湖南与朝鲜人的湖南意象

朝鲜王朝古地图与文人诗歌体现了朝鲜人的湖南空间认知形态与他们心目中的湖南意象的特殊性。近代以前,湖南与朝鲜几乎没有直接交流,湖南却成为许多朝鲜文学作品中的空间背景。朝鲜人并没有强烈的湖南概念,取而代之的是“湖广”“楚”“荆州”等概念。湖南的山水博得了朝鲜人的赞赏,与其相比,一些人文环境的评价却相对不高。这些现象产生原因主要来自朝鲜特有的儒学价值观,及由此形成的朝鲜中华主义政治态度与景观评价标准。     

An optimal credit policy to increase supplier's profits with price-dependent demand functions

This paper deals with the problem of determining an optimal length of credit period from the perspective of supplier. We assume that a retailer jointly determines the unit retail price and order size to maximize profit when he/she purchases a product for which the supplier offers a trade credit. Two widely used demand functions are adopted for the study in which demands are decreasing functions of the retail price. A procedure is presented which shows how to achieve an optimal length of credit period for suppliers. The effects of credit period on the behaviour of retailers are also investigated using an example.     

Infrastructure of mobility: navigating borders,cities and markets

In this article, which is based on research conducted in Hong Kong from 2010 to 2013, and again in 2018, I analyse the region‐bound circulation of independent women sex workers from the Philippines across the Asian global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Macau. Migrating as visa‐free tourists, they maintain a valid immigration status and maximize their income in the informal economy by adopting a step‐down transient mobility pattern characterized by a downward hierarchical circulation to multiple city‐states and country destinations. As I show, their multinational migration is produced and structured through the instrumentalization of a mobility infrastructure constituted by a regime of visa‐free circulation, transportation developments, commercialized migration services, and social networks. In this article, I attempt to extend the contemporary analysis of unauthorized migration by moving away from the prevailing focus on incorporation and settlement and towards an examination of the logics and mechanics of migration flows that occur outside state‐sanctioned channels.     

中国本土管理研究的几个关键问题——对黄光国、罗家德的访谈

本土学术应立足于东西文明的结合。用西方的分析性思维方式去解读中国文化传统会在社会科学的不同领域产生涵盖文化的理论,它不仅对中国有很大的影响,对西方的社会科学理论也是一种挑战。就本土社会研究而言,西方最优秀的学者建构的社会网络的、结构性的、关系主义的思维方式,给予中国本土研究非常有价值的启发。中国本身的崛起与西方理论的发展,会使得我们今天称之为本土管理的研究,明天成为世界的管理理论。     

COLLUSION AND OVERLENDING

This study provides a theoretical background for collusion-induced overlending being the main cause of the 1997 Korean financial crisis. Our model consists of a lending institution, a borrowing chaebol of an unknown type, and an informed politician who can influence lending decision. We show that collusion can be formed between a low-type chaebol and the politician, and it may not be the lending institution's best interest to deter such collusion. This equilibrium, however, is possible only when the economic environment is favorable. When the economy deteriorates, the expectations of the fall of the collusion equilibrium can trigger financial crisis. (JEL G30, D82, O16)     

亲子游戏治疗的模式及展望

亲子游戏治疗作为一种心理治疗干预模式，不仅能够解决儿童的社交、情绪及行为障碍，而且可以帮助构建和谐的亲子 关系。由于其应用范围广、操作简便，近年来迅速成为我国儿童心理治疗领域的研究热点。本文通过深入分析亲子游戏治疗 的发展历程，详细总结CPRT，DPT，TP，PCIT，RT及DIR floortime六种不同亲子游戏治疗模式，指出专业治疗师的培养、父母心 态转变以及数字辅助工具的引入是亲子游戏治疗本土化的重要方向。