Optimal acquisition price management in a remanufacturing system

Return items received from end customers for remanufacturing is uncertain in nature. In this paper, we considered that return demand function is uncertain and sensitive to the acquisition price and the availability of used products in the market. A mathematical model was developed to investigate the impact of the availability of return items in the market on acquisition price management. Here, three different methods of collection of return items from the market are considered: direct method, indirect method and coordinated method. A numerical study was conducted to illustrate the mathematical model, and an extensive sensitivity analysis was carried out for the three different methods of collection to examine the impact of market size and the available dependency factor on acquisition price and the channel profit. The results show that the total channel profit increases when the acquisition price increases for the direct method of collection. Furthermore, the results reveal that the total channel profit increases when the market size increases for the coordinated method of collection compared with the other two methods of collection.     

苏南太湖地区水资源价值补偿对物价水平的影响研究

对水资源进行价值补偿是解决我国现阶段水资源短缺和水污染问题的重要手段之一,解决好水资源价值补偿问题是实现资源,环境、社会可持续发展的前提。实施水资源价值补偿政策可能导致的物价水平上升是关系到人民群众生活稳定的重要问题。在实施水资源价值补偿政策之前,对实施这一政策可能引起的物价上涨幅度进行定量分析是十分必要的。本文运用投入产出模型计算苏南太胡地区水资源价值按一定比例（分别为１％、２％、３％、４％、５     

Impact of crude oil price volatility on economic activities: An empirical investigation in the Thai economy

This paper empirically examines the impact of oil price volatility on key macroeconomic indicators of Thailand. Following Andersen et al. [2004. Analytical evaluation of volatility forecasts. International Economic Review 45(4), 1079–1110], quarterly oil price volatility is measured by using the realized volatility (RV). The impact of the oil price volatility is investigated using the vector auto-regression (VAR) system. The Granger causality test, impulse response functions, and variance decomposition show that oil price volatility has significant impact on macroeconomic indicators, such as unemployment and investment, over the period from 1993Q1 to 2006Q4. Perron's [1997. Further evidence on breaking trend functions in macroeconomic variables. Journal of Econometrics 80(2), 355–385] test identifies structural breaks in all the concerned variables during the time of the Asian Financial Crisis (1997–1998). A VAR for the post-crisis period shows that the impact of oil price volatility is transmitted to budget deficit. The floating exchange rate regime introduced after the crisis may be the key contributor to this new channel of impact.     

农地资源不同价值属性的产权结构设计实证

农地是农业的基础、国民经济的基础,也是社会稳定的基础。农地资源具有经济价值属性、生态价值属性和社会价值属性,而社会价值属性包括社会保障功能价值、社会稳定功能价值及其他社会功能价值。本文针对农地资源不同的价值属性进行了产权结构设计,经济价值属性对应于农地农用产权,社会保障功能价值对应的是农地发展权,其他的价值属性构成了农地的公共产权。通过建立农地资源不同形态的价值属性与产权、价格之间的关系框架,为农地产权价格的衡量提供了依据。江都市的实证研究表明:农地发展权价格和公共产权价格在农地完全价格中的比重高达81.85%,其中,发展权价格的比重最大,达到63.02%,是农用产权价格的3.47倍;而公共产权价格的比重也达到18.83%,高出农用产权价格4%。在征地过程中如果考虑农地发展权和公共产权,并将其权益分配给农民,那么农民的土地财产权益可以增加4倍多。