战后日本农业金融理论的变迁

战后日本经济经过多个景气循环,大体上可以分为经济高度增长期、经济稳定增长期、平成不景气期三个阶段.在每个阶段,为了解决特定时期的农村金融问题,产生了很多新的农业金融理论,同时对旧有理论进行了创新.其中,关于农业金融的职能特征、外部信用限制、农协过剩资金以及金融效率化等理论,随着时代发展而不断变迁,对日本的农业发展起到了一定的指导作用.     

Foreign Aid,Incentives and Efficiency: Can Foreign Aid Lead to the Efficient Level of Investment?

This paper develops a two‐period model in which the recipient faces borrowing constraint and the donor is a Stackelberg follower to address two important policy questions: (i) whether foreign aid can lead to the efficient level of capital investment in the recipient country and (ii) how does the form (e.g. budgetary transfers, capital transfer) and the timing of aid affect the recipient's financial savings and capital investment. It finds that the disincentive effect of the capital transfer on the capital investment by the recipient is larger than the budgetary transfers. It makes financial savings more attractive relative to the capital investment for the recipient. In the absence of capital transfer, the multi‐period budgetary transfers not only lead to the efficient level of capital investment by the recipient, but also achieve the same allocation as under commitment. The capital transfer can lead to the efficient level of capital investment, but in this case, it completely crowds out the recipient's own capital investment.     

信息、承诺与激励——理解中国农业生产激励变迁中的国家角色

平均化的分配方式和退出权的剥夺导致人民公社内部的作物生产激励不足。但由国家管制政策引起的作物生产激励问题经常被研究者所忽略。文章发展了信息分权基础上的国家承诺分析框架,由于工业化目标,国家通过建立人民公社以降低治理成本,其中,人民公社承担了收集、处理作物种植信息并提取相应农业剩余的职能,从而导致人民公社面临严重的外部激励问题。20世纪70年代末期,财政困境促使国家放松对农业部门的组织化治理,允许以家户为单位的作物生产方法。这事实上放松了对作物生产的信息控制,由信息分权引起的国家承诺具有可信性,有效地增加了农民权利的安全性及其生产激励,构成农业部门生产效率改善的重要源泉。     

我国外贸经济应对人民币升值的短期承受能力——基于宏观财务分析的视角

宏观财务分析是对国家一定时期、一定范围内财务活动的过程与结果进行的剖析。本文基于宏观财务分析的视角,利用财务分析的技术手段,以中国工业企业2000-2010年的盈利能力为依据,研究了我国外贸经济总体对人民币升值的承受能力,对了解外贸经济实体对人民币升值的承受极限,探讨中国外贸经济对人民币升值的短期承受能力提出了自己的研究结论和政策建议。     

后金融危机时代中国的应对战略

在世界金融危机形势仍然不明朗的前提下,分析中国经济的性质和特点,用科学方法对中国经济在后金融危机时期的走势进行预期,进而采取正确的战略措施确保经济按照既定的方向发展并争取尽早进入下一个经济繁荣期,是摆在国人面前的一个重大研究课题。     

经济转型时期中国公共财政体制的改革与完善

财政模式作为经济体制在财政方面的具体体现,是经济体制转型对财政根本要求的一种反映和作用的结果。因此,从健全中央和地方财力与事权相匹配体制的目标任务;积极调整和优化公共支出结构;大力支持区域协调发展和经济结构调整;改革与完善公共财政预算体制等改革和完善公共财政体制是中国经济转型时期的必然要求。     

劳动力流动与收入收敛--一个改进的新古典增长模型及对中国的启示

文章将劳动力的流动性引进新古典增长模型,对于一个拥有一定资本密度的小型开放经济体而言,当它低于稳态时,劳动力的迁出会加快收入收敛的速度,但同时会对整体资本投资产生抑制作用;在收入水平相对较低时,这种抑制作用会超过其正面作用,从而劳动力流动会减缓收入收敛的速度;但从长期来看,随着劳动力流动性的提高,正面作用最终会占据主导地位,从而劳动力的无限自由流动会最终导致收入收敛于稳态.     

Effects of financial liberalization on financial market development and economic performance of the SSA region: An empirical assessment

This study investigates the role of financial liberalization in promoting financial deepening and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA). We apply the more efficient system GMM estimator in dynamic panel data that combines first difference and original level specification to deal with the problems of weak instruments. Our dataset covers 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period of 1981–2009.Additionally, the paper sought to examine both the direct and indirect impacts of financial liberalization policies on economic growth and financial deepening using a much more comprehensive and recent financial liberalization dataset. The econometric results suggest that, on average, financial liberalization is negatively associated with income growth in SSA region. Our findings provide support for the skeptical empirical view of financial liberalization in emerging markets, which show that liberalization, by itself, might be associated with lower economic growth through leading to destabilization, stimulating domestic capital flight and increasing the risk of financial fragility. However, the research finds that financial liberalization does indeed impact positively on financial deepening and resource mobilization in SSA region, after controlling for key macroeconomic factors such as institutional quality, fiscal imbalances and inflation. In fact the study reports a stronger reforms effect for countries that have stronger legal institutions, protection of property rights and higher human capital. Policy-wise, the study finds that institutional and human capital factors are important in explaining growth and financial development; therefore, it is necessary for SSA governments to promote a stronger and more transparent institutional development as we move forward.     

我国财政宏观调控政策及其转型取向--兼论以农村教育为重点的财政调控

经济周期波动及其政府宏观调节是与市场经济共生的现象.经典理论形成了低谷和顶峰两极时期的财政对策,但忽视转型期的调控政策.我国新一轮增长拐点时期,将过去实施的积极财政政策转型为稳健的财政政策,财政调控的目标、手段、方式都需要发生改变.稳健的财政政策目标应该由单纯追求增长率转变为扩大就业,由类行政的直接调控转变为利用市场对企业施行间接调控,当前财政重点发展农村教育有助于实现经济由短期波动到长期增长的平稳过渡,并由此延长经济增长期.     

次贷危机后美国经济金融化趋势是否逆转?

20世纪70年代以来资本主义经济金融化趋势显著,以金融资本为主导的积累模式在一定时期内刺激了资本主义经济增长,但也为由美国次贷危机引发的2008年国际金融危机埋下了祸根。而今,距离危机的爆发已经十余年,危机后当代资本主义也经历了一系列调整。本文考察了危机后美国政府的系列"再工业化"政策、新自由主义持续强劲的势头、新形势下美国经济的新矛盾与新变化,探讨"再工业化"能否为美国寻得摆脱经济危机的新型积累模式、危机后金融部门为何迅速恢复并依然主导美国经济、劳资矛盾的持续加剧能否催生新的变革等问题,认为危机后美国经济金融化趋势尚未逆转,新型积累模式尚不可得,其实质是资本主义内部的经济调节机制无法解决其持续激化的基本矛盾,而矛盾的激化酝酿着新的变革。     

Is globalization detrimental to financial development? Further evidence from a very large emerging economy with significant orientation towards policies

This study attempts to explore the relationship between globalization and financial development by endogenizing economic growth, population density, inflation and institutional quality for India during the period from 1971–2013. Using the more conclusivecombined cointegration method, the study provides evidence of cointegration among these variables. The long-run and short-run estimates from the ARDL model and causality tests, respectively, suggest that globalization in its all forms (political, social and economic) and its overall measure as well as inflation are detrimental to financial development, while economic growth and population density both promote financial development. Furthermore, the results also point out that institutional quality is not conducive to financial development in India, and there exists a feedback effect between financial development and inflation. Moreover, financial development is influenced by economic growth, institutional quality and population density.     

如何有效削减政府债务：保增长、调结构与稳金融

本文基于41个国家2001-2011年的动态面板数据,采用系统GMM估计研究了经济增长、产业结构升级和金融稳定对政府债务的影响。实证结果表明：经济增长和产业结构升级均有助于政府债务削减,且产业结构升级的作用要大于经济增长;与此同时,金融波动不仅对政府债务削减不利,还会通过边际效应削弱经济增长和产业结构升级在政府债务削减中的积极作用。上述结论意味着,在实践中,为有效削减政府债务,必须在确保金融稳定的前提下,坚持“保增长”和“调结构”双措并举,特别是充分发挥产业结构调整的积极作用,实现金融稳定和结构优化的经济增长。     

Financial structure on growth and volatility

By applying the pooled mean group estimator to a large panel up to 40 countries over the 1960–2009 period, this study finds that financial structure is significantly cointegrated to both economic growth and its volatility. In particular, the relationship is positive in nature, suggesting that more market-based countries enjoy faster economic growth but suffer more from economic fluctuations in the long run. Accordingly, in sharp contrast to the existing evidences, we conclude that the architecture of an economy's financial system matters for real sector performance. Moreover, the findings are robust to a variety of sensitivity checks, including the problem of endogeneity, the use of different financial structure (and growth volatility) indicators, the inclusion of extra growth (volatility) determinants, and the control of cross-sectional dependence in the panel data.     

Financial flows and economic growth in developing countries

This paper assesses the impact of financial flows and their composition on the real exchange rate and on economic growth for a sample of low- and middle-income countries over the period of 1980–2012. Financial flows can directly support economic growth by relaxing constraints on domestic resources, but can also indirectly weaken growth through appreciation of the real exchange rate. We use the generalized method of moments (GMM) for dynamic panel. Results show that net financial flows affect economic growth both directly and indirectly: (i) a one percent increase in total financial flows appreciates the real exchange rate by 0.5 percent; (ii) the real exchange rate appreciation effect of remittances is twice the effect of aid and ten times greater than the effect of Foreign Direct Investments; (iii) financial flows stimulate economic growth regardless of the development level. An increase of $10 per capita financial flows leads to a gain of 0.08 points of annual growth. This gain amounts to 0.15 when we control for the negative impact of the real exchange rate. Instability of market-oriented flows, such as FDI and portfolio investments, exacerbates instability of the economic growth rate.     

Work incentive and other effects of social assistance and unemployment benefit policy in the Czech Republic

In this paper we provide an account of most of the passive labor market policies (unemployment compensation, social assistance, state social support and the pension system) in the Czech Republic during the 1990–1996 period. The eligibility requirements and benefit levels are described in great detail. Using Labor Force Survey data, we compare the characteristics of unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits with those receiving social assistance and those not receiving any benefits and we find significant differences in their characteristics. Finally, we provide an analysis of the work disincentive effects of the unemployment and social assistance benefits by comparing these benefits to market wages and by analyzing the effect of being in the system on the duration of unemployment of two cohorts of unemployed in 1994 and 1995. We find that social assistance benefits are fairly generous for low income families with more children, individuals with these characteristics have a higher probability of receiving social assistance and they tend to stay unemployed longer than those people with relatively fewer dependants. We conclude that the social assistance scheme seems to be having some disincentive effects for at least one group in the population.     

我国经济增长中的金融动员效率

在渐进转型时期,我国微观主体效率总体低下,无法满足金融效率与经济增长协调一致的必要条件;依靠金融动员高效率并在一定程度上牺牲金融配置效率来促进经济增长,是相当长时期内的现实选择。强控制金融下的高动员效率极大地促进了我国经济的快速增长,但是也累积了巨额不良资产等严重问题,数量扩张型增长难以为继。随着各种经济社会条件变化,金融动员高效率让位、回归于金融配置高效率成为必然和可能。     

不完全金融市场、海外资产结构与国际贸易

本文在动态不确定性模型分析框架下,分析了金融自由化和金融深化对一国居民消费、资产选择和福利的影响。研究表明,两国金融市场完全性的差异会导致在金融自由化的经济环境中,金融市场完全性低的国家由于有更多的预防性储蓄而出现贸易盈余,相应金融市场完全性高的国家出现贸易赤字。同时,金融市场发展的差异也深刻影响两国居民资产组合的选择,促使金融市场完全性高的国家"做多股权,做空债权",金融市场完全性低的国家"做空股权,做多债权",并导致资本从金融市场完全性低的国家主要以购买债券的形式流向金融市场完全性高的国家。     

How similar are alcohol drinkers? International evidence

Using a Vector Autoregression (VAR) approach, several hypotheses are re-examined suggested by the literature concerning the relationship between financial development and economic growth, investment and productivity. The models use quarterly time-series data from ten OECD countries and China. Innovation accounting or variance decomposition and impulse response function analysis is applied to examine interrelationships between variables in the VAR system and, therefore, differs from the more usual Granger causality approach. In particular, it examines the relationship between financial development proxied by total credit. At best, weak support is found for the hypothesis that financial development ‘leads' economic growth.     

流动性补偿、信息不对称与市场预期:央票发行对央票交易成本的影响分析

基于对经济正常波动时期与金融危机时期央票发行对央票交易成本的影响分析,结论表明央票交易成本中流动性成本显著高于信息不对称成本。在经济正常波动时期,央票发行顺应市场预期,央票发行并未引起流动性成本和信息不对称成本的显著变化;在金融危机时期,央票发行出乎市场预期,央票发行引起信息不对称成本显著增加,指令流自相关系数显著降低。而央票市场的信息不对称成本,主要来源于机构投资者对公开信息的解读不同。     

Financial Deepening and Economic Growth in Advanced and Emerging Economies

While over‐financing caused crises and slow growth in advanced economies including Germany, France and the UK after 2008, more prudent financial deepening sustained higher economic growth in China and India—two major emerging economies in the world. The actual financial deepening ratios (AFDR) observed in the non‐consolidated balance sheet from the OECD exceeded by factors of 3.5, 2.4 and 5.1 the optimal financial deepening ratios (OFDR) obtained from the solutions of dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) models of those three advanced economies. The corresponding factors were 2.3 and 0.49 for China and India respectively. Labor intensive production technology and a low OFDR relative to a high AFDR in China allowed it to grow at 10% between 1990 and 2010 period that ended with the global financial crisis. With a reasonable OFDR and low AFDR India also managed to grow at 6.5%. Thus huge gaps between the optimal and actual financial deepening ratios led to massive macroeconomic consequences as observed after the crises in 2008. Smooth, sustainable and efficient economic growth requires adoption of strategies for separating equilibria in line of Miller–Stiglitz–Roth mechanisms avoiding problems of asymmetric information in the process of financial intermediation with as narrower gaps as possible between the AFDRs and OFDRs.