Pricing financial services innovations

The number of innovative financial solutions introduced to markets has grown considerably in the past decade owing to emerging digital technologies, deregulation and market fragmentation. Examples are abundant in the worldwide markets for insurance, credit products and transaction processing services. A question of growing interest is how firms should price these innovations. The optimal introductory pricing of financial innovations may vary as a function of factors such as price sensitivity of the market and competitors’ ability to introduce competing financial solutions. In this article, we examine the role of these factors in the optimal pricing of a financial innovation. Using an agent-based simulation framework, introductory pricing strategies that maximize profitability under various market conditions are identified. Results indicate that lower levels of market price sensitivity and longer time horizons for competitive entry create pricing opportunities for financial innovators. However, the relationship becomes more complex as market price sensitivity increases or competitive market entry becomes more immediate. Detailed recommendations for optimal pricing of financial innovations under various market conditions are provided, and the article concludes with strategic recommendations for pricing innovative financial services.     

Fiscal policy and financial market movements

This paper estimates fiscal policy reaction function in order to investigate the links between financial market movements and fiscal policy outcomes. An increase in asset prices affects in a positive and significant manner primary balances, with the response reflecting both an increase in government revenues and a fall in government spending. The most important impact on fiscal balances is due to changes in residential property prices. Changes in equity and commercial property prices are also important determinants of fiscal balances. Our findings suggest that the steepening of the slope of the yield curve contributes to expenditure based fiscal discipline.     

Monetary policy under financial uncertainty

Monetary policy may play a substantial role in mitigating the effects of financial crises. In this paper, I suppose that the economy occasionally but infrequently experiences crises, where financial variables affect the broader economy. I analyze optimal monetary policy under such financial uncertainty, where policymakers recognize the possibility of crises. Optimal monetary policy is affected during the crisis and in normal times, as policymakers guard against the possibility of crises. In the estimated model this effect is quite small. Optimal policy does change substantially during a crisis, but uncertainty about crises has relatively little effect.     

Economic policy uncertainty and financial statement comparability

We examine the implications of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) for financial statement comparability. We posit that the increased difficulty of estimating future cash flows and the increased opportunity for earnings management with increased EPU reduce the quality of earnings and its comparability. Consistent with this reasoning, we find a negative relation between earnings comparability and lagged EPU. Further, the association between EPU and comparability is more negative for firms that have poorer accruals quality and higher earnings volatility. We do not find that accounting policy choice is systematically related to the association between EPU and comparability. These results suggest that cross-sectional differences in accounting estimates rather than accounting policies influence the relation between EPU and comparability.     

金融业软件测试策略分析

随着商业银行金融IT产品的多样化和经营领域的全球化,国内各大金融机构完成了数据大集中,但同时IT风险也进一步集中。软件测试作为保障软件产品质量、降低金融IT产品风险的重要手段,受到了各级金融IT管理者的广泛注意和高度重视。     

开拓新兴农村金融市场个金业务策略研究

近年来,随着中国城乡一体化建设的推进,数以亿计的农民进入城镇,在城乡建设中逐步形成了新兴农村金融市场。本文通过对在苏州市城乡一体化建设大背景下新兴农村金融市场个人金融业务需求及其特征的分析认为,中国工商银行苏州分行（以下简称“苏州工行”）应抓住机遇,研究落实新兴农村金融市场个人业务的发展策略,确定苏州工行在新农村金融市场上的运作方式,使之适应新农村市场的环境和竞争,以新的策略开拓新农村金融市场。     

Corporate innovation strategy and disclosure policy

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting - We examine the impact of a firm’s innovation strategy on its disclosure policy. Using a sample of innovation-intensive U.S. firms from 1992 to...     

产品生命周期与金融产品定价策略

一、引言产品生命周期是指一种产品从完成试制投放市场到最后被淘汰退出市场所经历的全过程,一般包括四个阶段:投入期、成长期、成熟期和衰退期。由于处于产品生命周期不同阶段的产品呈现出不同的市场特征,与之相应的产品定价策略也应随之做出相应调整。产品生命周期各阶段的主     

Excess reserves,monetary policy and financial volatility

This paper examines the real and financial effects of reserves in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with monopoly banking and credit market imperfections. The framework explicitly accounts for the fact that commercial banks hold excess reserves and they incur costs in holding these assets. The model also accounts for imperfect substitutability between bank funding sources and it shows that this feature is an important channel through which reserve requirement shocks can affect real variables. Numerical experiments show that an increase in reserve requirements creates a countercyclical effect for real economic activity. The results also indicate that the combination of an augmented Taylor rule which responds to excess reserves and a countercyclical reserve requirement rule is optimal to mitigate macroeconomic and financial volatility associated with liquidity shocks.     

2012年全球经济金融形势研判及对策建议

在回顾2011年发展态势的基础上,文章对2012年全球经济金融形势进行了预测,认为2012年世界经济将延续低速增长局面,全球资本流向不确定性增强,全球主要金融市场将持续动荡,股票市场、大宗商品市场和外汇市场波动将加剧,国际银行业前景不容乐观。在此形势下。我国应灵活应对,积极防范各种风险,促进经济平稳较快增长。