中国大陆手机灰色市场研究

手机是日常生活中最重要的个人通讯工具之一。灰色市场是向消费者提供手机产品的一个重要渠道，灰市手机也是受到较多关注的一个话题，手机灰色市场是灰色市场乃至灰色经济领域具有代表性的研究对象。本文以中国大陆手机灰色市场为例，研究了中国大陆手机灰色市场的现状，分析了手机灰色市场存在的原因以及形成渠道，探讨了其造成的影响以及抑制灰色市场的后果。研究结果表明，灰色市场的利弊不能一概而论。运用政府手段对手机灰色市场进行抑制消灭将对进口国总福利水平造成削弱，因此建议以市场自我调节手段决定手机灰色市场的存在与否。     

组织? 抑或不组织? ———从中国组织农民的模式演变探讨农业现代化进程中的农民组织问题

随着市场经济的发展和经济全球化的冲击，将农民组织起来正逐渐成为全社会的共识。新中国历史上农民组织起来的方式经历了从政府主导到市场主导的变迁。由政府主导的农民组织模式是一种强制性制度变迁形式，其可迅速完成将农民组织起来的问题，但却会引致产权不清、激励不足等问题；相反，由市场主导的农民组织模式是一种诱致性制度变迁形式，但往往会出现时间长、成本高等问题，而需要政府的介入、推动。因此，在当前保持家庭联产承包制度不变的前提下，由市场主导、政府介入的农民组织方式应为一种理性的选择。     

内需拉动型房地产市场的房价走势分析——以松原市房地产为例

新一轮楼市调控政策一定会对房地产市场的价格预期产生正面的引导,而楼市能否出现＂拐点＂,笔者认为决定因素是供求关系的根本性逆转。从这一判断出发,透过房价涨涨跌跌的表象,分析内需拉动型房地产市场的房价走势,应遵循市场规律,因为该类房地产市场的发展是以市场调节为主,分析其房价走势主要应剖析影响房地产业长期发展的因素以及具体房地产市场上房屋供求关系的变化。     

Introduction: The democratic consolidation of Lithuania's State Institutions

What has enabled the Finnic and Baltic slivers east of the Baltic Sea to survive in the midst of a Germanic-Slavic Northern Europe for the last 1000 years? Such an outcome was not foreordained – it is the result of a succession of lucky circumstances, on top of the strength of native cultures. Favorable factors include geopolitical location, worldwide main currents such as Protestantism and Romanticism, competition among would-be assimilators, and the unintentional positive impact of personalities extraneous to the Baltic area, such as Bishop Albert, Martin Luther and Peter the First. The latter occupy only a part of this overview, but as partly counter-intuitive examples they highlight the contradictory vagaries of the process of nation-building east of the Baltic Sea. While the focus is on Estonia and Latvia, some observations apply to Lithuania and Finland as well. Sustainability during the last 1000 years has implications for future national survival, but with marked reservations in a demographically imploding Europe. Nations without children have no future.     

A note on electoral competition and turnout in run-off electoral systems: Taking into account both endogeneity and attenuation bias

In this short note, I propose an identification strategy to estimate the causal effect of expected electoral competition on voter turnout in run-off systems taking into account both endogeneity and attenuation bias. I find that electoral competition significantly raises turnout. Not addressing attenuation bias yields estimates that are biased by up to 50%.     

A White-Hot Battle

正Backing a price war between cab-booking apps serves the larger ambition of China’s Internet companies Han Yonghui is a cabbie in Beijing.After a taxi fare increase in 2013,he makes roughly 5,000 yuan($823)a month,just about enough to feed his family.Recently,Han started using cab-hailing mobile software to pick up customers who order taxis via smartphone.Benefiting from an increasingly fierce competition of rewards between two of the most popular apps for this purpose,he can receive up to 2,250 yuan($370)     

市场在资源配置中起决定性作用的必然性探析

党的十八届三中全会把市场在资源配置中的"基础性作用"上升为"决定性作用",是党在思想理论上的重大突破和实践上的重大创新。承认并发挥市场在资源配置中的"决定性作用",是推动我国经济社会发展的必然要求,是改革做到系统性、整体性、协同性的内在要求,是遵循市场经济基本规律的必然要求,是更好发挥政府作用的客观要求。     

'Perspiration' vs 'Inspiration' in Asian Industrialisation: Indonesia Before the Crisis

This article examines trends in and determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in 28 manufacturing industries in Indonesia over the period 1975-93. The reforms of the mid-1980s appeared to have resulted in a significant acceleration of TFP growth. Among the inter-industry determinants of TFP growth, trade policy and orientation, domestic competitive pressures and ownership factors are singled out for scrutiny. The trade regime and one measure of domestic competition emerge as consistently important explanatory factors.     

Employment,structural adjustment and sustainable growth in Mexico

To date the literature on subjective well-being has focused on the developed economies. We provide empirical evidence from two emerging market countries, Peru and Russia. Our results - and in particular a strong negative skew in the assessments of the respondents with the greatest income gains - support the importance of relative rather than absolute income differences. Among other factors, we attribute our results to shifts in reference norms and to macroeconomic volatility. Relative differences seem to matter more for those in the middle of the distribution than for the very wealthy or the very poor. Our respondents were more critical in assessing their progress vis-à-vis others in their country versus those in their community. The large and consistent gap we find between objective income trends and the subjective assessments of the upwardly mobile may have implications for the future economic and political behaviour of a group that is critical to the sustainability of market policies.     

The Nature of a Public Service

Public services have been misunderstood. They are not simply services in the public sector, they are not necessarily there because of “market failure”, and they cannot be analysed by the same criteria as market-based provision. They have four defining characteristics. They exist for reasons of policy; they provide services to the public; they are redistributive; and they act as a trust. They consequently operate differently from production for profit, in their priorities, costs, capacity and outputs.