地下金融经济犯罪的风险与防范

地下金融是潜伏在繁荣经济活动中的一股暗流，尽管对某些地区经济发展有一定程度的积极作用，但其中蕴合巨大的经济犯罪风险。地下金融潜在着经济犯罪风险，应从调整金融体制、加重对此类犯罪的打击和加强金融监控三个层面防范地下金融经济犯罪的风险。     

论经济犯罪刑事责任的界定及其特征

经济犯罪刑事责任是经济犯罪行为引起的必然性的否定性法律后果。本文以分析经济犯罪刑事责任的概念为基础，从不同方面论述了经济犯罪刑事责任的特征，从而有利于区分经济犯罪刑事责任与其行政责任、民事责任的不同点。     

浅谈改革开放30年经济刑法观念的变革

改革开放30年来，我国的经济体制发生了深刻的变革，社会主义市场经济体制逐步建立和完善，刑法观念也发生了一系列的内在变革：从政治功能观到经济功能观；从对经济犯罪的过度介入到适度调整；从对公有制经济的重点保护到对非公经济的平等保护；从罪刑心定到罪刑法定；从把刑法视为“刀’把子”偏重于打击犯罪到打击犯罪与人权保障并重；从对经济犯罪的重刑主义到宽严适度等等。刑法观念的变革必将进一步促进刑事立法的不断完善，为社会主义市场经济的健康发展提供有力的保障。     

What has the Brexit Process done to Scotch Whisky?

The United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union does not have any impact on Scotch whisky itself: Brexit or not, Scotch whisky is Scotch whisky. However, it features more prominently in the Brexit negotiations than, for example, beer. This is because Scotch whisky is a highly export‐oriented product which brings large economic benefits to the UK—particularly Scotland—and its brand is protected by the international regime of intellectual property rights protection, especially, by the geographical indications regime championed by the EU. Moreover, the Brexit negotiations have led to the resurfacing of another political issue which affects Scotch whisky: Scottish independence. As a strong territorial brand, the constitutional status of Scotland is highly relevant to Scotch whisky and the investigation into the impact of the Brexit process on Scotch whisky has highlighted the inter‐connectedness of various political issues.     

Alternative South–South development collaboration? The role of China in the Coega Special Economic Zone in South Africa

Aid, in the form of financial aid and investment, has become increasingly prevalent in both bilateral and multilateral partnerships in the BRICS. In Africa, the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation provides the official framings for forms of development assistance to the continent, with financial forms of aid available through the New Development Bank and the China–Africa Development Bank (CADFund). This article explores how Chinese international development assistance has influenced South Africa's economic growth and development strategies and is reshaping South Africa as “gateway” to Africa and continental leader. Special economic zones (SEZs) have become a prioritised form of BRICS development collaboration particularly in terms of Chinese trade and investment expansionism into Africa through South Africa. Chinese international development assistance and foreign direct investment in South Africa in particular are very notable and have been strengthened during the Chinese official state visit prior to the Johannesburg BRICS Summit in 2018. The article critically analyses the development policy discourse on BRICS spearheading an alternative model of South–South international cooperation by examining the Coega SEZ in South Africa, hailed as the most SEZ in Africa. The article critically examines the development alternative potential of the Coega SEZ.     

Does intellectual property lead to economic growth? Insights from a novel IP dataset

While policymakers often make bold claims as to the positive impact of intellectual property (IP) rights on both developed and developing country economies, the empirical literature is more ambiguous. IP rights have both incentive and inhibitory effects that are difficult to isolate in the abstract and are dependent on economic context. To unravel these contradictory effects, this article introduces an index that evaluates the strength of IP protection in 124 developing countries for the years 1995 to 2011. We illustrate the value of this index to economics study and show evidence that is consistent with IP leading to increased growth. Our results are further consistent with two causal pathways highlighted in the literature: that IP leads to greater levels of technology transfer and increased domestic inventive activity. Yet other aspects of our study fit uneasily with this simple story. For example, we find evidence suggesting that increased levels of growth lead to greater levels of IP protection, contradictory evidence in the literature linking IP with growth, a lack of evidence that increased levels of IP protection lead to actual use of the IP system, and problems with what IP indexes measure. Because of this, we suggest another – and so far undertheorized – explanation of the links between IP and growth: that IP may have few direct effects on growth and that any causality is a result of belief rather than actual deployment of IP.     

民族自治地方变通立法与经济特区变通立法比较研究

立法变通权是我国法律赋予民族自治地方和经济特区特有的权力。民族自治地方变通立法是基于国家基本政治制度之一的民族区域自治制度的职权立法。经济特区变通立法是为了改革和发展需要,由全国人大授权经济特区的授权立法。二者在客观依据、法律性质、立法主体、权限、范围和程序等方面都存在着显著差别。     

海峡西岸经济区区域三螺旋合作深化发展路径探讨

区域正日益转变为由政府、科研院所和企业组成的三螺旋创新空间。本文首先对区域三螺旋创新空间的形成及运行特点进行了理论探讨;在此基础上,针对海峡西岸经济区正日益成为实现两岸要素资源优化整合的先行先试区域,对海峡西岸经济区区域三螺旋合作的现状和存在的问题进行了分析;最后,对推动海峡西岸经济区依托对台合作深化区域三螺旋合作提出了一些政策建议。     

台湾经济波动的实际冲击效应——基于封闭和开放实际经济周期模型的比较分析

本文分别建立了一个封闭实际经济周期（RBC）模型和一个小型开放RBC模型来模拟台湾经济周期波动,并在模型参数校准的基础上分析和比较两种模型对台湾经济波动典型化事实的模拟能力,以及小型开放RBC模型中主要宏观经济变量对台湾经济的冲击效应。研究结果表明,小型开放模型对台湾经济波动的模拟能力较封闭模型有较大程度的提高。同时,小型开放RBC模型的动态响应函数表明技术和对外贸易冲击是造成台湾经济波动的重要因素。     

浅谈我国参政党自身建设问题

当前,民主党派要切实履行参政党职能、提高参政能力建设,就必须重视自身能力建设.加强参政党自身建设具有一定的客观必然性,这是由参政党的地位、性质和特点所决定的.参政党加强自身建设的总体目标是,实现思想观念、组织结构、政治功能和活动方式的现代化.要以思想建设为核心,以组织建设为基础,以制度建设为保障,以作风建设为动力,切实加强自身建设,增强自身的凝聚力、战斗力、团结力.