The effect of explanations on mathematical reasoning tasks

Studies in mathematics education often point to the necessity for students to engage in more cognitively demanding activities than just solving tasks by applying given solution methods. Previous studies have shown that students that engage in creative mathematically founded reasoning to construct a solution method, perform significantly better in follow up tests than students that are given a solution method and engage in algorithmic reasoning. However, teachers and textbooks, at least occasionally, provide explanations together with an algorithmic method, and this could possibly be more efficient than creative reasoning. In this study, three matched groups practiced with either creative, algorithmic, or explained algorithmic tasks. The main finding was that students that practiced with creative tasks did, outperform the students that practiced with explained algorithmic tasks in a post-test, despite a much lower practice score. The two groups that got a solution method presented, performed similarly in both practice and post-test, even though one group got an explanation to the given solution method. Additionally, there were some differences between the groups in which variables predicted the post-test score.     

政府补贴方式下排放许可交易生产优化

从学术上探讨了政府补贴方式下有排放许可交易的生产优化问题.分析了配额和补贴方式效果在管理上的差异,给出了补贴方式下的各经济核算关系及模型,给出了最低净化水平定理的证明;给出优化计算,求解了最优净化水平,并探讨了其与最优产量和企业最优收益间的关系;给出仿真计算,并对企业生产在这种支持方式下的优化管理进行了分析.研究表明:企业将对生产中产生的全部排放物进行相同净化水平α的处理时,所需要的处理费用最低;在线性反需求函数下,最优产量的变化量只与净化成本函数、排放交易价格、补助价格等几个量相关,最优收益与最优产量的平方成正比.     

Introducing competition in healthcare services: The role of private care and increased patient mobility

We study the operational implications from competition in the provision of healthcare services, in the context of national public healthcare systems in Europe. Specifically, we study the potential impact of two alternative ways through which policy makers have introduced such competition: (i) via the introduction of private hospitals to operate alongside public hospitals and (ii) via the introduction of increased patient choice to grant European patients the freedom to choose the country they receive treatment at. We use a game-theoretic framework with a queueing component to capture the interactions among the patients, the hospitals and the healthcare funders. Specifically, we analyze two different sequential games and obtain closed form expressions for the patients’ waiting time and the funders’ reimbursement cost in equilibrium. We show that the presence of a private provider can be beneficial to the public system: the patients’ waiting time will decrease and the funders’ cost can decrease under certain conditions. Also, we show that the cross-border healthcare policy, which increases patient mobility, can also be beneficial to the public systems: when welfare requirements across countries are sufficiently close, all funders can reduce their costs without increasing the patients’ waiting time. Our analysis implies that in border regions, where the cost of crossing the border is low, “outsourcing” the high-cost country’s elective care services to the low-cost country is a viable strategy from which both countries’ systems can benefit.     

资源禀赋视角下政府与企业互动行为演化分析

针对政府与企业资源的异质性,从资源禀赋的视角,对政府与企业互动的不同模式(随机合作型、政策驱动型、技术推动型、协作共赢型)的界定与分析,构建政府与企业互动行为的演化博弈模型,明确政府与企业在不同模式下的互动行为演化路径。研究结果表明:政府与企业不同互动模式存在显著差异,不同类型企业与政府之间的互动对应着某种互动模式;不同互动模式的产生和演化契合政企互动关系的发展历程;协作共赢型互动模式是政府与企业互动行为演化的高级阶段,有利于政府与企业形成紧密的合作,激发政府政策资源与企业技术资源的协同效应。     

政府补贴与新能源汽车产业发展——基于系统动力学的演化博弈分析

新能源汽车被视为缓解能源消耗及环境问题的重点项目,成为了战略性新兴产业的一个重点发展目标。为探究在政府补贴策略下的政府、汽车企业以及消费者间的博弈关系,基于系统动力学基础运用演化博弈方法研究了政府补贴与新能源汽车产业发展的关系。从长远来看,政府补贴会削弱企业的核心竞争力,政府对汽车企业的适当惩罚会促进新能源汽车的产业发展。政府应通过建立机动补贴机制并适时增加补贴多样性,完善惩罚机制,加大对新能源汽车产业体系的建设及配套基础设施的投入,以促进新能源汽车产业的持续发展。     

财政腐败的宏观经济分析:一个理论框架

建立了一个考虑税收腐败和公共支出腐败的经济增长模型,从理论上探讨财政腐败行为及其影响.主要结论归纳:第一,财政腐败降低私人资本的回报率,使厂商的生产力下降,就整体而言阻碍了经济增长.第二,最优税率可能大于或小于Barro的最优税率,取决于征税效率和寻租引发的行政成本,第三,两种类型的公共支出隐含着不同程度的腐败机会,以...     

政府差异化激励条件下有限理性制造集群的服务化策略演化研究

服务化转型是传统制造企业实现向价值链两端高收益空间演化的重要驱动,却受到转型成本高、转型难度大等多重阻碍。推动制造业服务化政策设置的合理与否,关乎制造企业产业优化升级的成败。本文以由有限理性的寡头与一般企业组成的传统制造集群为研究对象,依据演化博弈理论建立了政府差异化激励条件下集群服务化转型策略的演化博弈模型,利用可视化系统仿真演释了制造集群寡头企业群体与一般企业群体的服务化策略选择过程。研究表明,政策激励设置的合理性直接影响制造集群服务化转型升级的成败,政策制定者应避免陷入无法使制造企业选择服务化策略的政策困境。本文为制造集群服务化激励水平的设定提供了理论依据和解决思路。     

Supporting maintenance strategies using Markov models

The basic principle of total productive maintenance (TPM) isto reduce and ultimately eliminate breakdowns by pre-emptivemaintenance strategies, which rely on the cooperation of allemployees. When properly applied, TPM can bring about tremendousimprovements in a company's performance. However, recent research,using interviews and questionnaires, suggests that many managersin manufacturing industries in Europe still have to be convincedof the usefulness of TPM. Many more are perhaps unsure of thelosses which can accrue as a consequence of not having an appropriatemaintenance programme implemented in their organizations. Asimple yet powerful Markov model is proposed as a diagnostictool for the manager who wants an effective way of identifyingthe prime costs involved in production line downtimes, and hencethe potential benefits of TPM. The influence of the performanceof a single machine on a line can be investigated. This is vitalinformation for strategic planning of machine replacements,which involve major capital investments. In particular, an approximateanalysis of the benefits of a machine building up a buffer stockis presented, and assessed against the costs involved. The modelhas been implemented as an Excel macro.     

求车间最优逐月生产计划的一个算法

给出一个求车间最优逐月生产计划的数值算法，证明了算法的理论依据，并举例说明算法的应用。     

政府支出结构、扭曲性税收及内生贴现因子

在一个无穷期限模型中,假设经济主体具有完全理性,通过将常数贴现因子转换为关于效用水平的内生变量,利用跨期优化方法重新考虑了政府支出结构、扭曲性税收对宏观经济变量的影响.尤其关注这两种变量的长期和短期变化对资本积累路径的影响,理论模型表明,当贴现因子内生化后,政府支出结构和扭曲性税收对宏观经济的影响会更为复杂,尤其体现在生产性支出上.