WTO与中国环境标志法律对策

随着世界经济一体化的深入和各国对环境保护问题的日益重视,环境标志成为发达国家新的一种"绿色贸易壁垒",对环境和国际贸易产生重大影响,加入WTO后,中国环境标志面临新的机遇与挑战。我们应大力发展和完善我国的环境标志制度,充分利用WTO的现行规则,在WTO的法律框架内寻求相应的法律对策。     

Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires

As climate change increases the frequency of natural disasters, understanding how such disasters affect voting behavior has become crucial. While the literature has demonstrated that voters punish the party of the incumbent when they experience severe destruction, it remains unclear how other political parties are affected. In particular, we argue that voters shift their support to Green parties following natural disasters, given that these parties have ownership of environmental issues. We further argue that disasters decrease mainstream leftist parties’ vote share because liberal-minded voters are more likely to be the ones switching to Green parties. Empirical tests on bushfires and voting in Australia provide some support for our predictions, as all the expected effects of fires on voting manifest in state-level tests but not constituency-level tests. This suggests that our theory may operate only at certain levels of governance, paving the way for future research into why this might be.     

“绿色壁垒”的兴起及我国外贸的对策

随着社会经济的高速发展,生活水平的稳步改善,西方发达国家为了维护自身的经济利益,利用国际社会对环境保护的广泛关注和人们环保意识的日益增强,开始推行"绿色壁垒"这种贸易保护主义的新形式,对国际贸易产生了广泛而深刻的影响.     

人口红利与中国的经济增长

社会追加的人口生产性为经济增长贡献一个具有促进作用的人口红利。本文所建立的人口红利对经济增长影响的数学模型,以及以其定量地计算人口红利对中国经济增长的影响表明:人口红利对1978—2006年间中国的经济增长由阻碍作用转变成为促进因素,对GDP的贡献量与贡献率均呈持续增长的趋势,进入21世纪后,中国每年实现的GDP中人口红利的贡献份额已超过10%。然而,人口红利的一次性、人口迁移与人口红利的区域间转移、人口红利为谁所得和人口负债由谁承担等问题,都是值得我们重视和研究的。     

Climbing to the Rooftop,Falling off,yet Landing on One’s Feet (and Finding a Wallet on the Pavement?): The Electoral Fate of the Greek Ecogreens (2004–15)

After a prolonged period of feeble electoral success, the Ecologists Greens (Ecogreens) managed to break into the Greek political landscape by electing one MEP in the 2009 European election. However, that electoral success proved to be quite short-lived, since in the years to follow the Greek Greens faded away. They were divided and faced the threat of political extinction, only to be resuscitated at the national election of 2015 by allying themselves with the winning leftist Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). This article draws on archival and survey data to recount the electoral fate of the Ecologists Greens from their creation to their current place in the Greek parliament and government.     

越南腐败对企业发展影响的研究——基于世界银行企业问卷调查的实证分析

越南的腐败与其经济高速增长相伴而生,腐败在其经济高速增长中是扮演了促进经济增长的"润滑剂"作用,还是阻碍经济增长的"沙子"角色,这有待实证的检验。本文基于世界银行2005年和2009年对越南企业的问卷调查,通过OLS和IV方法,研究发现越南腐败阻碍了其企业生产率的提高。相对未卷入腐败活动的企业而言,卷入腐败活动的企业生产率要低11.7%左右。越南腐败主要是通过增加企业的生产成本,以及扭曲企业家稀缺才能的时间和精力配置来降低企业生产率的。作为投资东盟的重要目的地,我国企业在投资越南之前应充分考虑和认识到腐败对企业生产经营活动以及生产率的影响,未雨绸缪做好相应的准备。     

Financing multifamily rental housing: The changing role of lenders and investors

Abstract

A broad consensus exists that there are significant barriers to accessing capital markets for multifamily rental housing, particularly for housing targeted at low‐and moderate‐income households. While there is a growing secondary market for multifamily mortgages, the market is in the early stages of development and remains quite small. Expanding this market requires increasing standardization of mortgages, increasing credit quality with better underwriting and credit enhancement, and educating investors as to the risks and returns of multifamily investments. In addition, dramatically improved data collection on the performance of multifamily investments and analysis on the determinants of success are needed.     

In through the back door: Social equity and regional governance

Abstract

A leading impulse for new regionalism in the 1990s was the sense that suburban and central cities are economically interdependent and should work cooperatively toward common regional welfare in the face of globalized competition. If this is so, we should witness an emergence of regional policies that combat concentrated poverty, segregation, and place‐based inequalities that impose significant economic costs. This article assesses the extent and types of metropolitan equity efforts under new regionalism, the pathways through which they arise, and their prospects.

Research finds that equity‐based regional policies are increasing; they take diverse forms and are commonly shaped by state or federal programs, but they are not explicit and primary parts of regional agendas. While regional entities have not advanced explicit discussions about equity, a confluence of intergovernmental programs and quality of life issues has added regional equity to the portfolio of metropolitan goals.     

Do impact fees raise the price of existing housing?

Abstract

This article uses 1991–2000 data on single‐family housing sales from King County, WA, to provide new evidence relating to the effects of impact fees on housing prices. The hedonic regression method is used to examine the effects of these fees on existing housing as well as their differential effects on price as determined by housing quality.

Impact fees raise existing home prices by about 83 percent of the amount of the fee. The increase is 103 percent for high‐quality homes and is not statistically significant for low‐quality homes. The owners of high‐quality homes realize capital gains from impact fees. However, such fees do not raise the price of low‐quality homes. To the extent that low‐quality housing is more likely to be owned by low‐ and moderate‐income households, which are often composed of racial and ethnic minorities, this finding has significant policy implications for the supporters of impact fees.     

对贵州绿色转型与绿色发展的思考

绿色发展既要经济社会又好又快地发展,又要生态经济社会有机整体和谐地可持续发展,是生态自然发展和经济社会发展双赢的科学发展。贵州作为西部欠发达省份,在推进绿色发展、循环发展、低碳发展时应根据实际和资源从五个方面着力,同时应加快科技创新能力,实现科学发展。