税收递延型养老储蓄设计及其对投资行为的影响

税收递延型(简称税延型)个人养老储蓄是上海国际金融建设的重要金融创新产品之一,也是我国养老保险制度发展的必然方向。国外税延型养老储蓄的具体设计及其变迁,为我国的相关制度设计提供参考。对税延型养老储蓄的经济影响,包括对常规储蓄、消费、投资以及纳税人的行为反应等的相关研究作回顾,为评估我国相关变量的变化提供研究方向。在总结国外相关经验的基础上,对我国税延型养老储蓄账户的类型及其管理方式提出简要规划。     

Investment financing, inflation, risks, and stabilization

This paper discusses financial problems of stepping up the investment process in Russia, approaches to intensifying financial redistribution, opportunities for using government savings to boost and upgrade economic growth, and suggests financial support measures for the modernization of the Russian economy.     

Balance sheet expansion and economic growth in China: Crowd in or crowd out?

Balance sheet expansion is crucial to understand the historic path, current slowdown and future trend of economic growth in China. As the financial system transforms national savings into investment, balance sheet expands simultaneously. According to changing impacts of balance sheet expansion on real economy, economic growth in China from 1998 to 2016 can be divided into the crowd-in stage and the crowd-out stage. In the first stage (1998–2007), balance sheet expansion crowded China's real economy in, raised TFP dramatically and accelerated economic growth. In the second stage (2008–2016), balance sheet expansion crowded China's real economy out, with stagnant TFP and decelerated economic growth. Balance sheet expansion has slowed down since 2014, but it continues to exert crowding out effects on China's real economy. We argue that balance sheet expansion is crucial for China's future economic growth. In the long term, structural reforms, especially reforms in the financial system, could increase growth potential significantly. In the short term, financial system reforms should focus on generating sufficient cash flows to boost aggregate demand.     

资产市场对居民储蓄率影响的国际比较——兼论中美储蓄率差异

本文构建了一个居民储蓄行为函数,选取13个国家1991～2007年的面板数据研究了居民储蓄率的五大决定因素——收入和经济增长、利率与价格、外部储蓄、人口结构与资本市场发展,重点考察以股票市场为代表的资产市场的作用。采用定截距固定效应模型的不同方法得出的结论是:反映资产市场发展的3个指标中,股票价格和金融业产值比率都对居民储蓄率有显著负向影响,而股市规模比率有微弱正向影响。总体上看,资产市场发展对储蓄的综合作用仍是负向的,资产市场能够通过分流储蓄和财富效应两条作用渠道降低居民储蓄率。     

论我国居民消费水平的影响因素

在国际金融危机的影响下,我国居民消费率持续走低,对国民经济稳定发展产生了不利的影响。国民生产总值、居民收入和储蓄、通货膨胀和社会保障等都是影响我国居民消费水平的重要因素,论文主要对这些因素进行分析并提出建议,希望能够为提高我国居民消费水平提供理论支持。     

Financial literacy,financial inclusion,and savings behavior in Laos

This study examines the effects of financial literacy on financial inclusion and savings behavior in Laos. Compared to previous literature, we use a broader definition of financial literacy which covers not only financial knowledge but also financial behavior and financial attitudes. We also use a new definition of financial inclusion which goes beyond the supply-side perspective to consider the consumer’s perspective. To do so, we use the survey instrument designed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development International Network on Financial Education. We also used more reliable instrumental variables to investigate the effects of financial literacy on financial inclusion (and its components) and savings behavior. We find that financial literacy has statistically positive effects on both financial inclusion and savings. Moreover, the effects of financial literacy on different measures of financial inclusion vary. Our results further show that individuals with higher financial literacy scores are more likely to hold savings in both formal and informal forms than those who have lower financial literacy scores, even when we control for income and education.     

我国高储蓄率的成因及其对策探析

本文从储蓄结构深化研究我国高储蓄率的成因,提出降低我国储蓄率的思路主要是降低企业储蓄率和政府储蓄率。具体对策是尽快出台调整企业储蓄率政策;进一步完善社会保障体系;改革金融市场、健全金融机构及完善金融体制,还有合理调节收入分配差距。     

The relationship between financial sector development and savings mobilisation in South Africa: An empirical study

This article examines the link between financial sector development and savings mobilisation in South Africa for the period 1980–2012. Taking the life-cycle hypothesis as our theoretical background and using Johansen co-integration that allows for hypothesis testing, the empirical results revealed a long-run relationship between savings, interest rates and financial sector development. We find an inverse relationship between the interest rate and savings, implying that South Africans are net borrowers because the income effect overwhelms the substitution effect. This in part explains the low level of savings in recent time. Important policy lessons for boosting the national savings rate are discussed.     

社会保障体系的根基在实体经济——高价值化积累率重创美国养老基金体系的思考

美国独特的社会保障体系存在高价值化积累率与低储蓄率的悖论。美国社会保障体系过度依赖于虚拟经济,导致其与金融体系一样存在着严重的脆弱性,其风险随着金融系统性风险一同增长。社会保障体系的经济基础源于实体经济,应建立以实体经济为基础的中国社会保障模式,规划好社保基金中政府保障部分和市场化增值部分的比例,从而更好地发挥社会保障功能和作用。     

Lessons for Africa from Indonesia's Experience in Smallscale Entrepreneurial Finance

Abstract: Indonesia has developed some very successful credit schemes for both men and women smallscale entrepreneurs and farmers in rural and urban areas; one is a state-owned commercial bank which reaches out into the poorer areas; one is owned by local governments, but supervised by the state-owned commercial bank; and one is owned and operated by the provincial government. Can the factors which led to their success be transferrable to the African setting ? The authors argue that they can, but that the high population density, the vibrant economy and the relative stability of the price level are important positive factors in Indonesia not found in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, the paying of a market rate of interest on savings and encouragement of savings, the integration of the credit scheme into the commercial banking system, an interest rate on loans which covers the spread between savings borrowing and costs plus administrative costs, high levels of repayment, untargeted credit, good management, financial viability of each branch unit, and convenience in location are transferrable and should be part of African institutions leading to the smallscale sector.     

Flight‐to‐safety and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crises in France during the Great Depression†

Despite France's importance in the interwar world economy, the scale of the French banking crises of 1930–1 and their consequences have never been fully assessed quantitatively. The lack of banking regulation severely limited the availability of balance sheet data. Using a new dataset of individual balance sheets from more than 300 banks, this article shows that the crises were much more severe than previously thought, although they did not affect the main commercial banks. By reconstructing financial flows, this study shows that the fall in bank credit was mostly driven by a flight‐to‐safety by deposits, from banks to savings institutions and the central bank. The decrease in bank deposits due to bank runs was offset by an increase in deposits with savings institutions, with the central bank, and in cash hoarding, whereas the decrease in bank credit was not offset by an increase in loans from non‐bank financial institutions. In line with the gold standard mentality, cash deposited with savings institutions and the central bank was used to decrease marketable public debt and increase gold reserves, rather than pursuing countercyclical policies. Despite massive capital inflows and rising aggregate money supply, France suffered from a severe, persistent credit crunch.     

Achieving greater financial independence for Latin America: A proposal

Financial intermediation development in Latin America illustrates the various ways in which the financial system may influence growth, efficiency, and welfare. Though the financial repression of earlier years has begun to be alleviated, much of the resulting growth of finance in Latin America has been concentrated within the countries or between them and the now-developed regions. Intraregional financial flows have been largely overlooked as an avenue for the increase of financial savings and of regional control over the mobilization and allocation of financial resources. This paper proposes the creation of new instruments designed to further the development of financial intermediation on a regional basis. A Latin American Development Bond programme is suggested which would increase the level of voluntary financial savings for regional development purposes and would reduce the present triangulation of credit flows through financial intermediaries outside of Latin America.     

Interest Rate Liberalization and Economic Growth in Zambia: A Dynamic Linkage

Abstract: This paper examines the dynamic impact of interest rate reforms on economic growth in Zambia—using two models in a stepwise fashion. In the first model, the efficacy of interest rate liberalization is examined by regressing the interest rate on the level of financial deepening. In the second model, the causal relationship between financial depth and economic growth is examined by incorporating savings as an intermittent variable in the bivariate setting, thereby creating a simple trivariate model. Using the cointegration‐based error correction model, the study finds strong support for the positive impact of interest rate liberalization on financial deepening. In addition, the study finds that financial deepening, which results from interest rate liberalization, Granger causes economic growth. The results apply irrespective of whether the causality is estimated in the short run or in the long run. Other results show that: (1) lagged financial depth leads to further financial deepening; (2) savings and economic growth Granger cause each other; and (3) financial development Granger causes savings in the long run.     

Analysing disequilibrium interest-rate systems in developing countries

Under equilibrium conditions, monetary policy measures to raise institutional interest rates are contractionary. When interest rates are held below their free-market equilibrium levels, however, an increase can be expansionary. Higher institutional interest rates may deter savings in the form of unproductive inflation hedges and encourage savings in the form of financial claims issued to finance productive investment. In most developing countries, money is the predominant financial repository of savings and bank loans are a major source of investible funds. Hence, attention is focused here on models which analyse the effects of binding interest-rate ceilings on financial intermediation. Empirical evidence reported in this paper is consistent with the view that binding institutional interest-rate ceilings can have a substantial growth-reducing impact.     

Het Liquid Iteiskarakter Van Spaartegoeden

Summary Before 1964, the Netherlands Bank did not count savings balances at money-creating banks and savings banks as secondary liquid assets or secondary liquidity (that is, near-money). Secondary liquid assets comprise claims on the public authorities and money-creating institutions, so far as they are held by other than money-creating institutions, which can be converted in large amounts into money at relatively short term without much expense or great loss on the transaction, or which can be used at their par value to make payments in satisfaction of current tax assessments.However, towards the end of the 1950's it became apparent from the rising value of the velocity of circulation of savings balances at financial institutions that these assets were acquiring increased significance for current payments. In 1964, this phenomenon induced the Netherlands Bank to count a certain part of the savings balances — indicated as liquid savings balances — as secondary liquidity, whereas the remaining part (true savings balances) was not. The Bank did so for better being able to impute the responsibility for monetary disturbances to the various sectors of the economy.Savings balances acquiring increased significance for current payments is a result of increased competition among financial institutions for the savings of the households sector. This increased competition is due to the fact that the households feel the need of more services rendered by the financial institutions as their income rise. Nowadays those financial institutions whose balance sheets do not comprise an item Current Accounts permit households to use their savings balances for making current payments. On the other hand, there is a tendency towards creating new types of accounts that serve as current accounts for the households in particular. If this tendency is followed up, the liquid assets character of savings balances will grow weaker.Rede, uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van gewoon hoogleraar in de staathuishoudkunde aan de Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool te Rotterdam op 28 september 1967.     

山西省农村金融发展对城乡居民收入差距的影响分析

通过农村金融效率、金融相关率、储蓄投资转化率等一系列指标衡量山西省农村金融发展水平,并基于协整检验、格兰杰因果关系检验、脉冲响应分析等理论,研究了山西省农村金融发展与城乡居民收入差距之间关系。研究结果表明：①协整检验表明农村金融效率、农村金融相关率、储蓄投资转化率与城乡居民收入差距之间存在协整关系;②格兰杰因果关系表明山西省农村金融效率、农村金融相关率是城乡居民收入差距的格兰杰原因,储蓄投资转化率与城乡居民收入差距彼此不是格兰杰原因;③脉冲响应分析表明,山西省农村金融效率、农村金融相关率对城乡居民收入差距的影响主要体现为长期正向效应,而储蓄投资转化率对城乡居民收入差距的影响相应较小。     

我国储蓄结构变化对外贸影响的实证分析

国民经济储蓄部门结构一般可以由居民储蓄、企业储蓄、政府储蓄来表示。本文采用协整分析、格兰杰因果关系检验的方法对我国储蓄结构的变化与对外贸易的关系分别进行了实证分析。实证结果表明:出口、进口与三部门储蓄存在着长期的均衡关系,企业部门的储蓄是出口和进口增加的重要原因。保持对外贸易的平衡依赖于政府对各部门储蓄结构分布的合理引导。     

The German bank–growth nexus revisited: savings banks and economic growth in Prussia†

This article provides evidence that smaller, regional public financial intermediaries contributed to Germany's industrial development, using a new dataset of the foundation year and location of Prussian savings banks. This extends the bank–growth nexus beyond its traditional focus on large universal banks. Since savings banks were public financial intermediaries, our results further suggest that state intervention can be successful in the financial sector, particularly at the early stages of industrial development when capital requirements are manageable, and access to international capital markets is limited.     

Determinants of bond market development in Asia

One of the major reasons behind the Asian financial crisis in 1997 was the excessive dependence of the Asian economies on commercial banks for domestic financing. The region failed to diversify its sources of corporate financing as it relied mainly on banks since its other types of financing, namely bond markets, were still underdeveloped and their sizes were quite small. On the other hand, the 2008 global financial crisis and the ongoing European debt crisis have led to constraints in acquiring local currency and foreign currency liquidity in the corporate sector in Asia as foreign banks withdrew investments from Asia. Furthermore, Asia needs large long term capital (US$ 750 billion per year for 2010–2020) for developing infrastructure connectivity within and across its economies. Local and regional capital can be channeled for long-term infrastructure projects and other productive investment through bond markets. Having a well-developed local currency bond markets can enhance the resilience of domestic financial sector to external shocks and it can facilitate better intermediation of savings into productive investments in Asia. To enhance corporate bond financing, it is important to examine factors that affect the effective development of bond markets in Asia. The study attempts to identify the determinants of bond market development in Asian economies through examining the relationship of bond issuance with selected key financial and economic factors. It also intends to provide policy recommendations for the further development of the Asian bond market. Major determinants for bond market development in Asia include the size of an economy, the stage of economic development, the openness of an economy, the exchange rate variability, the size of the banking system, and interest rate variability.     

Globalization as a Development Strategy in Latin America?

The swinging of the pendulum toward policies that enhance Latin America’s insertion into the world economy diverted attention from domestic policies that continue to be essential for growth and development broadly defined. Six domestic policy areas are identified here: increasing domestic savings, implementing countercyclical fiscal policies, mobilizing public resources, investing in education, promoting employment, and reducing income inequality. The opportunity cost of not having devoted due attention to these issues throughout the 1990s is surely enormous, and for those countries still underplaying domestic variables, the longer the delay the greater the costs. The imperative of devoting more political capital to domestic strategies of development cannot be overstated––whether international financial institutions choose to emphasize them or not.