欠发达地区银行卡产业发展研究

银行卡是集消费、结算、信贷、理财等功能于一体的电子支付工具。随着现代信息技术的发展和银行卡在社会经济生活中的广泛应用,欠发达地区的银行卡产业也呈现快速发展态势,尽管在总量和规模上与发达地区相比还存在较大差异,银行卡产业发展中还面临和存在着诸多结症和问题,但作为一种新型支付工具,其强劲的发展势头值得我们进一步关注和深入研究。本文以乌兰察布市为例,对欠发达地区银行卡产业发展做一粗浅的探讨。     

储值卡的发展及对银行卡的影响

随着我国经济的快速发展和信息技术的不断进步,非金融机构发行的储值卡应运而生,并呈现出快速发展的势头.储值卡无论是外在形式,还是内在技术手段,均与银行卡较为相似,且在一定范围内具有替代银行卡进行消费的潜质,这势必对银行卡产业产生一定的影响.本文从储值卡自身特性出发,分析其对银行卡发展的影响,并进一步探讨银行卡产业如何面对这种挑战.     

大力发展银行卡产业 支持经济社会和谐发展

顺应时代潮流,发展我省银行卡产业意义重大 银行卡作为集存款、消费、结算、信贷等功能于一体的现代化支付工具,是金融业务与现代信息技术的完善结合,已成为银行业调整经营策略、拓展服务领域、推动业务增长的重要手段。发展银行卡产业是党中央、国务院为适应金融开放和入世要求而做出的一项重要决策。     

银行卡产业空间集聚与区域经济的关系

"经济服务化"是当今世界经济发展的一个重要趋势.银行卡产业作为传统金融业务与现代信息技术有机结合的新兴金融服务产业,其发展程度是衡量区域经济和社会发展的一个重要标志.银行卡产业的发展能够扩大消费需求、降低支付成本和交易摩擦、推动相关产业结构优化升级、促进整个国民经济的持续稳定增长.     

加强风险管理 促进银行卡产业创新发展

自从1985年中国第一张银行卡诞生以来,中国银行卡产业已经走过了20多年的发展历程,成为信息技术应用于金融领域的成功典范。回顾这20多年的发展历程,创新一直贯穿于银行卡产业发展的全过程,可以说,中国银行卡产业20多年走过的发展道路,就是中国银行卡产业的创新之路。     

储值卡的发展及对银行卡的影响

随着我国经济的快速发展和信息技术的不断进步，非金融机构发行的储值卡应运而生，并呈现出快速发展的势头。储值卡无论是外在形式，还是内在技术手段，均与银行卡较为相似，且在一定范围内具有替代银行卡进行消费的潜质，这势必对银行卡产业产生一定的影响。本文从储值卡自身特性出发，分析其对银行卡发展的影响，并进一步探讨银行卡产业如何面对这种挑战。     

银行卡产业空间集聚与区域经济的关系

“经济服务化”是当今世界经济发展的一个重要趋势。银行卡产业作为传统金融业务与现代信息技术有机结合的新兴金融服务产业，其发展程度是衡量区域经济和社会发展的一个重要标志。银行卡产业的发展能够扩大消费需求、降低支付成本和交易摩擦、推动相关产业结构优化升级、促进整个国民经济的持续稳定增长。     

迪庆藏区银行卡受理环境建设存在问题及建议

银行卡作为现代金融与信息技术融合的新型支付工具,带动了银行经营理念、策略和运营机制的转变,近年来,随着银行卡联网工作的开展,银行卡业务发展有了跨越式增长。但在欠发达地区,银行卡产业发展相对滞后,本文通过调研,分析迪庆银行卡受理市场存在的问题,并提出改善迪庆藏区银行卡受理环境的建议。     

迪庆藏区银行卡受理环境建设存在问题及建议

银行卡作为现代金融与信息技术融合的新型支付工具,带动了银行经营理念、策略和运营机制的转变,近年来,随着银行卡联网工作的开展,银行卡业务发展有了跨越式增长。但在欠发达地区,银行卡产业发展相对滞后,本文通过调研,分析迪庆银行卡受理市场存在的问题,并提出改善迪庆藏区银行卡受理环境的建议。     

建设银行贷记卡业务现状及对策

银行卡产业是传统金融业务与现代信息技术有机结合的新兴产业，在国际上已经发展成为一个庞大的产业体系，并且持续高速增长。贷记卡是银行卡中的高效益产品，是投放利差最大的业务。因此，研究其现状，改进制约其发展的内部因素，对促进贷记卡业务健康持续发展大有裨益。[编者按]     

Almanac of anticipations: The age of affluence—of anticipation—of anxiety—of automation—of discontinuity—of longing—of overkill—of space exploration

With this survey of developments in the futures field since 1945, I.F. Clarke completes his present series for Futures. He makes two major points: that forecasting techniques have become essential tools in the management of change; and that nuclear weapons and ecological problems have added a moral dimension to the study of the future. In the next issue of Futures he will start a new series on the range of future-thinking in the USA, from the expectations of the first settlers to the Star Wars programme.     

社会主义所有制形式的改革、完善与共产党执政能力的提高

在中国,所有制形式的调整、改革与完善,先进生产力的发展,党的执政能力建设,是社会主义建设过程中密切结合在一起的三个不同层面的发展关系.应在相互促进和共同提高中促进社会的和谐发展,保证社会主义现代化建设战略目标的顺利实现.     

基金公司经营融资融券业务的问题审视

融资融券业务正式运营已经开展,为证券市场带来了革命性的改革,作为证券市场的一大主体,基金公司面对融资融券也迎来了新的发展方向和挑战,本文从融资融券业务的运行机制入手,分析了基金公司融资融券的新契机,并对其即将面临的问题进行审视和剖析,进而提出策略建议.     

对基层人民银行科技工作的几点建议

银监会分设后,人民银行将专司货币政策、金融稳定、金融服务三大职能。作为人民银行的分支机构,基层人民银行的工作重心也将从金融监管调整到这三大职能上来。人民银行的科技部门,就要积极运用科技手段,为人民银行履行新的职能发挥“服务、支持、促进、发展”的作用。一、围绕三大职能搭建五大平台经过“六五打基础、七五作准备、八五大发展”几个阶段后,人民银行相继实现了核算电算化、清算网络化和办公信息化。特别是近一两年来,陆续开通了大额支付系统、信贷登记咨询系统、会计四集中系统、金融信息服务网站等系统,人民银行信息化水平又…     

Properties of time-series estimates of degree of leverage measures

Empirical studies suggest that time-series regression estimates of the degrees of operating and financial leverage have a tendency to produce measures less than one. According to ex ante theory, these measures should be greater than one for firms operating above the breakeven point. There have also been suggestions that the biases in these estimates may be attributable to an underlying increase in unit sales. This work presents evidence that these counter-intuitive measures are produced by changes in the firm's operating parameters (unit price, variable cost, fixed cost and interest payments). It further suggests that attempts to control for the underlying change in unit sales substantially increase the volatility of predicted estimates.     

浅议金融机构的举证责任

金融纠纷案件是当事人以存单或进账单、对账单、存款合同、保险单、票据、证券等凭证为主要证据向人民法院提出诉讼的案件,对于不同种类金融纠纷的当事人的举证责任,我国现行的金融法律、法规及司法解释有不同的规定。由于金融机构的特殊法律地位,发生金融纠纷时存在有关当事人将最后偿付风险转移给金融机构承担的主观故意,在客观上会使金融机构难以提供相应的证据来对抗不法债权人的诉讼请求,而导致金融机构败诉。为此,对金融诉讼案件中金融机构的举证责任加以研究具有重要的实践意义。     

Summary of Results of Survey of Seminar Attendees

Abstract

The Society of Actuaries undertook a three-phase research project on mortality improvement in the three NAFTA countries: Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Phase 1 consisted of a literature review of papers on projecting mortality levels in the future and a study of the trend in mortality improvement during this century. Phase 2 consisted of a discussion of different facets of modeling mortality rates at a seminar attended by 79 experts (actuaries, demographers, economists, and medical researchers) representing different countries. The last session of the seminar consisted of the completion of a survey by the attendees to obtain input for Phase 3, which would analyze the impact of mortality improvement on the social security system of each country. This paper summarizes the results of the survey.

The survey results illustrate the difficulty in forecasting mortality levels, because the effects of many factors that could have significant impact on mortality rates are unknown. This suggests the need for dynamic forecasting, which allows for the possibility of random shocks. A majority of the survey respondents believe that stochastic forecasting models, despite their complexity, have significant potential to add value. Respondents also believe that both historical data and cause-specific mortality forecasts are useful as input and also in validating forecasts of the aggregate levels of mortality. The challenge is to develop more sophisticated forecasting models to produce results that are relatively easy to interpret and to communicate these results to the desired audiences, including the public and policymakers.

The survey results suggest that the aggregate effect of lifestyle changes, medical advances, diseases, catastrophe, and physical environmental changes is an increase in life span. However, there is much uncertainty about the future. Respondents expect that beyond the year 2020 the mean annual rate of reduction in mortality for males age 65 and over will average about 0.58% for Canada, 0.76% for Mexico, and 0.67% for the U.S. The results for the female age 65 and over population are 0.64%, 0.83%, and 0.70%, respectively. The age 65 and over population is expected to see larger percentage reductions in mortality than the 0–14 and 15–64 populations. The reductions in male and female mortality will be ultimately the same, and the mortality levels in the three countries will ultimately converge, although differences may persist for decades.     

The Usefulness of Measures of Consistency of Discretionary Components of Accruals in the Detection of Earnings Management

Abstract:  Prior research has shown the prevalence of measurement error in models used to estimate aggregate discretionary accruals. In these models, the incremental information content of the various components of accruals is ignored. Limited prior research and data gathered from firms under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) litigation indicate that managers use either one or more than one component of accruals simultaneously, in a consistent way to manipulate bottom-line earnings in a given direction. I propose two measures that capture the consistency between the discretionary components of accruals and test their significance in earnings management (EM) detection in firms that have artificially added accrual manipulation and firms that were targeted by the SEC for accrual manipulation. There is evidence that this information is incrementally useful in detecting EM. This finding paves the way for improvements in the discretionary accruals measure by including consistency information from the components of aggregate accruals.     

Separation of Unit of Account from Medium of Exchange

The separation of a unit of account (UoA) from a medium of exchange (MoE) in the commodity–money system is investigated by considering explicitly a seller's choice of UoA in terms of either an MoE or a unit of metal weight. If the likelihood of debasement of an MoE and its rate are high enough, the price is posted in terms of a unit of metal weight rather than an MoE. Interestingly, this MoE–UoA separated equilibrium yields the flexible nominal price, whereas an MoE–UoA integrated equilibrium yields the sticky one. This implies the nominal price rigidity in the fiat‐money system where MoE and UoA are integrated.