浅谈国际金融监管现状与发展趋势

加入WTO后 ,我国金融监管体制面临严峻挑战。本文介绍了世界贸易组织有关金融监管的规则和一般性金融监管的措施 ,通过比较美、日、英等国和香港地区金融监管的特点 ,分析了国际金融监管的发展趋势。     

Japanese managers and British culture: a comparative case study

This paper examines the applicability of Japanese management practices in Britain within a socio-cultural perspective. Using a case study research in a Japanese multinational subsidiary in Britain, the paper argues that some management practices are incompatible with British societal and business cultural characteristics and are therefore not adopted by the Japanese managers working in this country. There are some practices which can more readily be adapted to local conditions and have successfully been implemented in Britain.     

The management of labour in Japanese manufacturing plants in China

While there is now considerable scholarship concerning Japanese management practices in their overseas production operations in Europe and North America, little is known about Japanese investment in other parts of the world, especially in Asia. This paper draws on on-going research into the nature and operations of Japanese manufacturing investments in China. The paper focuses on interviews primarily with Chinese managers in twenty plants in three locations within China, to examine their personnel polices and practices, and draw from this their overall industrial relations strategies. The main findings were, first, that, despite claims of cultural similarity between China and Japan, personnel management practices were generally not transferred from Japan to the plants in China. Second, practices that may appear as Japanese inspired were often informed by local practices. Third, there was diversity in the forms of practices used, indicating neither sophistication nor a singular recipe of management methods. Thus, the paper seeks to challenge proponents of Japanization who claim, essentially, that Japanese management techniques are predicated on the construction of particular forms of social relations around work that allow sophisticated, and integrated, production-management systems to function. Instead, depending on a complex interrelation between location industry and the history of each plant, managers sought to use various local and 'universal' (generic to capitalism) strategies and practices to control and utilize labour.     

BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN: Some Lessons from Technology Led Local Economic Development Initiatives

The experiences of the Japanese technopolis program and British science parks are evaluated with a view of identifying the extent to which the success of technology led local economic development initiatives is due to accident, in the form of largely unplanned factors, or design in the form of planned local initiatives. Reference is made not only to general studies of the two initiatives but also to detailed case study material relating to the Shinanogawa/Nagaoka technopolis in Japan and Cambridge Science Park in Britain. The findings of the studies support the view that technology led initiatives must be regarded as essentially facilitating mechanisms which, in the right circumstances, can play a useful role in promoting local economic development.     

美日英城市规划立法模式比较

发达国家在城市规划管理制度的建设和实践中,形成了不同的规划立法制度模式。从规划立法中的中央与地方关系、立法主体的特征及其关系、监督制约机制等方面入手,分析和总结了美英日三国规划立法制度模式的特点及其制度实践中的经验教训,对于思考和探索适合我国当前城市规划的制度建设的路径和方法,提供了重要的借鉴和启示。     

A study of the employment system of Japanese multinational retailers in Hong Kong

This study examines the employment system of Japanese multinational retailing corporations in Hong Kong through two case companies - Morioka and Okadaya. The human resource management (HRM) practices- recruitment and selection, remuneration, and training and development - of the companies are studied. The different HRM practices applied to different groups of employees within each case company are compared using an employment systems model. The employment system is structured and multi-layered. The development of the structured employment system is then analysed in relation to the cultural and sectoral factors. It is shown that only the cultural characteristics of the Japanese parent companies can explain the ethnocentric management approach used in which Japanese personnel are employed in the internal labour marker (ILM) and local employees are employed outside the ILM. Economic and labour market conditions in both parent and host countries and sectoral characteristics have also contributed to the stratification of the employment system among the local employees. The implications of this study are that the long-term development of Japanese multinational retailers will be weakened if the structured employment system persists.     

日本地方政府债券风险控制制度及其启示

日本地方政府债券几乎没有违约事件,其风险基本为零。这得益于其有效的风险控制制度。日本地方政府债券风险控制制度包括中央政府的"隐含担保"制度、审查和控制制度以及财务控制制度,具有以下几个特性:典型的行政控制、弱化的市场机制,以及零违约风险下的低经济福利。这给予中国有三大启示。正式制度是控制地方政府债券风险的关键;建立多层次风险管理制度;风险管理制度要顺应财政体制,即地方政府债券风险管理制度应"以民为本"、彻底的财政分权并非地方政府债券风险管理制度的必然基础。     

债权人相机控制的机理、类型与机制构建——以不完备契约理论为视角

Aghion-Bolton模型揭示了企业债权人相机控制的机理,即当企业事后出现可验证的特定信号时,一个有效率的所有权安排就是由债权人获取剩余控制权.在实践领域,英美及德日等国家的银企关系所形成的两种类型债权人控制经验模式均存在一定的缺陷,经验证据也表明我国尚未建立起债权人相机控制机制.兼顾美国企业债权人相机控制和日本企业债权人持续控制这两种债权人控制模式的优点并剔除它们的缺陷、建立企业与银行的一种新型合作关系,是构建我国企业债权人相机控制机制的可行思路.     

治理控制——内部控制的新视点

内部控制从本质而言,是和外部市场控制机制相对应的一个概念。内部控制和市场控制一样,是治理控制的一种实现机制。由于治理控制实现方式不同,可以把公司治理模式分为以英美为代表的外部市场控制治理模式,以日德为代表的内部控制治理模式。基于他们各自的市场特点,这两种模式都可以较好实现对管理层监督与激励。治理控制实现方式的选择,取决于各国特殊的市场环境。在我国,限于我国特殊的市场特点,市场机制和内部控制机制都难以在治理控制中发挥应有作用。而从现在看来,我国公司治理改革主要参照英美模式,治理控制更多表现为市场控制机制导向。对内部控制机制的忽视偏离了我国现实,而建立有效的内部控制体系,更多地依赖内部控制来监督管理层,或许可以更有效防止管理层舞弊。虽然内部控制的固有缺陷以及混沌理论的结论让我们有点悲观气馁,内部控制不可能完全防止管理层舞弊行为的发生;但是人类的进步正是在不断"试错"过程中取得。我们依然相信:强化管理层责任,加强内部审计的监督作用,以及内部控制外部化等措施,有利于建立一个对管理层也有效的内部控制体系。     

The Spatial Distribution of Japanese Manufacturing Industries in Indonesia

This paper presents an analysis of regional changes in the spatial pattern of Japanese manufacturing industries and the effect of deregulation of foreign investment in Indonesia during 1984–1994. Empirical analysis in this paper uses data of 560 Japanese manufacturing industries in Indonesia. The result of this study indicates their continuous regional concentration in the core region of Java. The regression analysis indicates that market, agglomeration and infrastructure continue to be the main reasons for the location of Japanese manufacturing industries. The current economic crisis has substantially reduced the level of new investment in the core region of Java.     

The Fable of Land Reform: Leases and Credit Markets in Occupied Japan

Development officials and scholars routinely argue that land reform can raise productivity. It may not always do so, they write, but it can—and during 1947–1950 in Japan it did. Land reform may sometimes raise productivity, but it did not raise it in Japan. The claim that it did is a fable, a tale people tell and re‐tell only because they wish it were true. A lease is a credit transaction—a way for local elites (tied to local information networks in ways that banks can never be) to extend funds to farmers. Elites could lend money directly, but would need to create a security interest to protect their loans. Doing so requires legal procedures, however, and most local elites in prewar Japan lacked the university education necessary to manipulate those procedures. By contrast, a lease lets local elites protect their funds simply by retaining the right to evict tenants who fail to pay. As such, it represents a way for investors and farmers jointly to economize on credit market costs. The Japanese land reform program effectively banned this transaction‐cost economizing credit‐market strategy, expropriated the wealth of the investors who used it—and cut the rate of growth in agricultural productivity.     

The impact of culture on HRM styles and firm performance: evidence from Japanese parents,Japanese subsidiaries/joint ventures and South Asian local companies

This paper investigates national and organizational cultural influences among managers in three types of companies: Japanese companies in Japan, South Asian domestic companies and Japanese subsidiaries/joint ventures in South Asia. The findings suggest that a Japanese parent company's culture tends to have a much stronger influence with Japanese companies operating in Japan. Japanese parent company culture tends to have less influence than the South Asian national culture in shaping the HRM styles and practices in Japanese subsidiaries/joint ventures operating in South Asia. While some South Asian firms are in the initial stages of learning about participative HRM from foreign companies, most still tend to maintain their national culture and traditional ways in the operating systems of their organizations.     

A comparison of HRM systems in the USA,Japan and Germany in their socio‐economic context

This article provides a comparative analysis of the HR practices of American, Japanese and German companies. The starting point is an investigation of the managerial, economic, socio‐political and cultural contexts of the three HR systems. It will be demonstrated that the socio‐economic contextual factors of the American and Japanese HR systems are in many ways at opposite ends of the spectrum, with the German factors in between. Subsequently, the three HR systems themselves are analysed. The data show that the same pattern, USA and Japan at the extremes and Germany taking a middle position, is valid also for the HR systems. This suggests that the relevant socio‐economic context is highly pertinent for the establishment of an HR system. This outcome does not exclude either the integration of HR practices from a foreign HR model into the domestic one or standardisation efforts of HR practices of multinational companies, but confines the potential for cross‐cultural learning and standardisation to what is within the ‘fit’ of the relevant socio‐cultural context.     

Transaction costs and market efficiency: Evidence from commission deregulation

This study analyzes the impacts of explicit transaction costs on weak-form market efficiency within the context of the brokerage commission deregulation in Japan in October 1999, which led to lower commission rates across the market. Applying two alternative statistical tests to both daily and weekly data, we find that return randomness (unpredictability) increases significantly for stocks listed in Japan, but not for the Japanese stocks dually listed in the United States, which are immune to the deregulation. These results suggest an inefficiency loss or an efficiency gain in the Japanese equity market following the deregulation, insofar as randomness proxies for efficiency.     

Changing employment relation systems in Japan: cases of the Mitsubishi Chemical Group and the Federation of Shinkin Banks

Over the past decade or so a number of changes have been observed in traditional Japanese employment relations (ERs) systems such as an increase in non-regular workers, a move towards performance-based systems and a continuous decline in union membership. There is a large body of Anglo-Saxon and Japanese literature providing evidence that national factors such as national institutions, national culture, and the business and economic environment have significantly influenced what were hitherto three ‘sacred’ aspects of Japanese ERs systems (ERSs). However, no research has been undertaken until now at the firm level regarding the extent to which changes in national factors influence ERSs across firms. This article develops a model to examine the impact of national factors on ER systems; and analyses the impact of national factors at the firm level ER systems. Based on information collected from two different groups of companies, namely Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) and Federation of Shinkin Bank (FSB) the research finds that except for a few similarities, the impact of national factors is different on Japanese ER systems at the firm level. This indicates that the impact of national factors varies in the implementation of employment relations factors. In the case of MCG, national culture has less to do with seniority-based system. Study also reveals that the national culture factors have also less influence on an enterprise-based system in the case of FSB. This analysis is useful for domestic and international organizations as it helps to better understand the role of national factors in determining Japanese ERSs.     

Helping hand or grabbing hand?: Politicians, supervision regime, financial structure and market view

Almost all the literature on the evolution of the financial supervision architecture stresses the importance of financial market characteristics in determining the recent trend toward more unification. But in the real world it is not always clear to what extent market features matter. We present two complementary approaches to gain insights in the above relationship, focusing on the political cost and benefit analysis. First, a cross-country study tests two alternative theories—the helping hand and the grabbing hand view of government—to determine the impact of the market structure on the supervisory setting. Our evidence seems more consistent with the grabbing hand view, considering the degree of banking concentration a proxy of the capture risk and presuming the market demonstrates a preference for consolidation of supervisory powers. Second, the results of a survey among financial CEOs in Italy confirm a market preference for a more consolidated supervisory regime but reveal only weak consistency between the views of the policymakers and those of the market operators.     

Stock returns and carry trades

This paper studies the role the stock market plays in determining the carry trade return. Evidence shows stock market returns significantly affect the carry trade returns in Australia, Mexico, Japan, the UK, Sweden, and the Eurozone. This paper further examines three channels through which stock returns affect the carry trade returns: the Balassa-Samuelson, risk-premium, and flight-to-quality effects. Our model shows that the stock market impact on the carry trade return depends on stock market volatility, and the flight-to-quality effect prevails globally. Furthermore, the introduction of the stock return significantly improves the out-of-sample forecast of the carry trade return when the domestic market is volatile.     

Democracy and adaptation to economic and technological change: Is the British political system capable of adjusting?

Political systems provide the framework for organizational and technological change. Democratic systems are in some respects more open to economic and social adjustment than non-democratic systems; but the conflicting demands of entrenched interests and competition among parties for votes themselves create obstacles to adaptation.Britain's political system is the most stable in Western Europe, but it is also (after Italy) the one which is showing most signs of strain. How far is political stability a source of strength or of weakness under conditions of rapid economic and technological change? What aspects of Britain's current political difficulties are common to all democracies (as Sam Brittan argued in a classic study), or to all European social welfare economies, and what aspects are peculiar to our system alone? After five years of the most self-consciously radical government which Britain has had since 1945, how successful has our current government been in promoting economic and social change, while resisting any changes in our political system?It is argued that there has been a negative interaction between repeated efforts to transform Britain's industrial structure, and industrial relations, for example, and the obstacles to change posed by a restricted and centralised political system. Other illustrations of the interaction between political structure and policy output are taken from the evolution of Britain's relations with the European Community, from the management of industrial collaboration with other governments, and from attempts to reform the finances of local government. Britain's experience is compared and contrasted with those of the United States, France, Germany and Japan.     

日本大地震对中国进口日本汽车零部件的影响分析

作为中国汽车零部件最大的进口国,日本大地震对中国汽车产业的影响最为显著。本文采用自组织数据挖掘的GMDH模型方法,建立日本地震对中国进口日本汽车零部件影响的GMDH模型。结果表明,日本大地震后中国进口日本汽车零部件数量经历了一个涨——跌——跌——起——正常的过程,大地震对后续三个月中国日系汽车零部件市场有非常严重的显著影响。