The paper extends the Malmquist productivity index to establish a theoretical model to evaluate foreign direct investment (FDI) attractiveness. This model and its implementation mechanism consider cost efficiency and profit efficiency changes that represent the influence of price level on inputs and outputs respectively. Using data from China from 1997 to 2008, we assess the attractiveness of FDI in terms of human capital stock, material capital stock, energy consumption situation, and degrees of market openness. We use data envelopment analysis to find the bottleneck of FDI attractiveness and to identify the potential market of each province. This study contributes to the literature by providing sound investment advices to multinational corporations. It also offers policy advice and guidelines to developing nations for setting policies and programs to attract FDI. Specifically, our results provide useful inputs for policy makers to create a mechanism design to attract FDI in the host country.

In this paper, under a dual-channel supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and multiple retailers, we investigate vertical and horizontal information sharing in different channel structures and the manufacturer’s choice on whether or not to keep a direct channel. To this end, we first study the dual-channel structure where uncertain demand is a linear function of price with a generalised-distribution base demand and show that the retailers have incentives to share information horizontally but not vertically, while the manufacturer is better off with vertical information sharing but its expected profit is not affected by horizontal information sharing. We next examine the retail-channel structure and find the basic results remain unchanged. Finally, we provide closed-form internal and external conditions under which the manufacturer can benefit from owning a dual-channel structure. Our study extends the existing literature by combining information sharing and dual-channel choice, introducing channel difference, discussing the impact of channel structure on horizontal and vertical sharing as well as providing interesting managerial insights for channel choice.

On the basis of the general framework of United Nations' "indirect/satellite" accounting system—Integrated System of Environment & Economy Accounting SEEA (1992) and 93' SNA, this paper tries to construct one simple. effective and practical CSEEA, and thereby trial estimates the l992 Chinese environmental adjusted GDP (Green GDP), under Chinese National Accounting System's reform practice.

For any kind of economy activity in today's human society, one important factor which cannot be ignored is the energy. It may be said that there is no human beings'today's development without energy. However, most environmental issues does appear as energy be used in human activities, e.g. acid rain formation, green house gas increasing by using fossil fuels, and un-renewable resources exhaustion by the corresponding primary energy overused, etc.. In this case, one kind of theoretical Integrated Input-output Table, in which the energy be especially considered, be designed on the basis of our Integrated Input-output Accounting Framework of Natural Resources-Economy-Environment[6] [7], and the relevant Input-output models be also set up, in this paper.As application, one new and concrete Energy-Natural Resources-Economy-Environmental Input-Output Table-Chinese'92 Energy-Economy-Environmental Input-Output Table be put forward in this paper, and scenario forecasting and analysis for Chinese energy-resourceseconomy-environment (1992-2020) be given, too, in light of Chinese 1992 Input-output Table (Value), Chinese Statistics Year Book, Chinese Energy Balance etc..