美国、日本等国教育资助体制及方式

弱势群体不仅存在于经济落后的国家,而且存在于经济发达国家,不仅存在于计划经济体制国家,而且存在于市场经济体制国家。各国政府基于公平和效率的考虑,都把经济困难群体的教育资助视为其基本职责之一。本文对美国、日本、巴西等国政府对弱势群体的教育资助制度和方式进行分析。     

浅析正在形成中的电子资金划拨法

电子资金划拨正以其高效率低成本的巨大优势,逐渐取代票据等传统的支付方式,得到广泛的应用与推广。这种新的支付方式的出现,也促成了以它为调整对象的电子资金划拨法的产生与发展。本文尝试对这一正在形成中的法律进行探讨,以期引起社会各界尤其是法学界对此的重视与研究,从而对我国在进行相关立法时有所裨益。     

促进西部少数民族经济发展的财税思考

如何促进西部少数民族经济发展是当前我国政府面临的重要课题。本文首先介绍了发达国家运用财税政策发展经济落后地区的成功经验 ,在此基础上 ,从我国国情出发 ,就运用财税政策促进西部少数民族经济发展问题提出了若干建议。     

西南科技大学岗位聘任制和岗位津贴制的改革与探索

为适应事业单位试行人员聘用的需要,更为学校适应新形势发展的需要,西南科技大学以全员聘用和岗位聘任为突破口,实行了人事分配制度改革,建立了“以岗定酬”的岗位津贴制。通过对学校人事分配制度改革的思路和具体做法的介绍,以进一步完善和推行全员聘任制。     

我国西部交通建设的公共经济学分析

从公共经济学的角度论证了交通运输设施的公共产品性及其外部效应 ,进而对西部交通运输建设进行分析 ,认为西部交通规划是西部交通建设的首要问题 ,加大政府转移支付力度是解决西部交通建设的主要途径 ,产权界定和收费制度是解决西部交通建设带来的生态环境破坏的重要方法。     

An empirical examination of cost-adjusting in outpatient clinics

This paper presents an empirical methodology for examining cost-adjusting in relation to multiple-output health care providers. The methodology is subsequently implemented using a sample of California outpatient clinics. The empirical evidence is that these clinics do cost-adjust; that is, the clinics respond to low Medicare reimbursement by using lower quality to control the marginal costs of those patient groups not insured under a government-sponsored plan. In addition, clinics do not cost-adjust with respect to Medi-Cal patients, implying that various government reimbursement systems have different effects on a provider’s cost-adjusting behavior.     

延迟支付条件下易逝品的最优订货决策研究

本文在考虑延期支付的情况下构建了二级供应链关于易逝品的最优订货决策模型,其中供应链由单个供应商和多个面临资金约束的零售商组成。在不允许缺货的情况下,供应商为零售商提供延迟支付来缓解零售商的资金压力,同时零售商对产品的定价将随易逝品的价值变质而变化。本文利用遗传算法对模型进行了算例分析,同时对模型中的相关参数进行了敏感性分析。结果表明,延迟支付能够提高供应链总利润并降低风险,从而有利于供应链整体效益的提高。在延期支付条件下,供应链各成员获得的收益增量存在较大差距,其中供应商能够获得更多收益。最后,通过敏感性分析,我们还发现产量及易逝品保质期的变动会对供应链整体利润产生不同程度的影响。     

“双碳”视角下我国居民碳普惠:内涵、框架体系与政策建议

“双碳”目标是我国基于实现绿色低碳高质量发展内在要求而作出的重大战略决策,对于加快形成以国内大循环为主体、国内国际双循环相互促进的新发展格局,推动我国社会生产方式、生活方式和消费模式的全面绿色转型,具有重要促进作用。文章围绕居民碳普惠这一当前“双碳”背景下的热点研究问题,从居民碳普惠的概念、内涵、作用与意义三个视角分别展开分析,提出了对绿色支付、居民碳普惠的定义,在此基础上对居民碳普惠的框架体系进行了深入研究,设计了居民碳普惠“一体两翼”的框架体系,并对我国居民碳普惠发展的五个方面提出了进一步政策建议。     

Examining the association between Medicaid coverage and preterm births using 2010–2013 National Vital Statistics Birth Data

Reducing the number of preterm births is a high public health priority in the U.S. Preterm birth, affecting an estimated 380,000 infants annually, is a leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity and is associated with individual and systemic characteristics. Preterm birth is estimated to cost society $26 billion annually. Despite an elevated financial burden caused by preterm birth, very little is known about who bears these costs. This study seeks to understand the relationship between Medicaid and private insurance payment for preterm birth, using multiple years of vital statistics data, which for the first time since 2010 include information on payment source. The nationwide data cover births that occur in all settings, including non-hospital settings, and many maternal characteristics not available in other datasets, improving upon previous analyses. These data can be used to promote better Medicaid coverage of interventions known to be effective in reducing preterm births.     

Then press enter: digital payment technology and the history of telephone interface

The internet and other digital networks in the U.S. (and beyond) remain essentially an upgrade of the national telephone network built by AT&T over the first half of the twentieth century, and digital payment remains tethered to telephony at the level of infrastructure. Telephone history also continues to inform digital payment at the level of interface. Debit card readers feature a keypad nearly identical to those introduced (also by AT&T) to the dialling public a half-century ago on touch-tone telephones. In this essay I highlight the development of the touch-tone keypad as a transformative payment technology. There have been three great leaps forward in the history of telephone interface: the dial, the keypad and the touch screen. Each corresponds to a period of technological transformation in the telephone industry and society more broadly: the rotary dial and automation, touch-tone keypads and digitization, and touch screens and computerization. The successful careers of the dial and the keypad, especially when read in tandem, suggest that touch screens will alter the everyday economics of retail payment even more radically than its predecessors. I also describe a broader trajectory of digital naturalization, whereby telephone numbers have proliferated into a personal identification number, passwords and a plethora of personalized information. Payments increasingly circulate today as subsets of personal information within the vast sea of big data. Payment apps are demonstrating a capacity to reorganize retail transactions on a scale as vast as any technology since the cash register. The history of retail payment finds the point of sale heading from the till into shoppers’ pockets. As a result, consumers are increasingly shouldering the costs of purchasing, maintaining, upgrading and securing the technology used for everyday transactions.