UK Accountants' Perceptions of Research Journal Quality

The process of research quality assessment is now firmly established in UK universities. The quality of the journals in which academic papers are published is an important input to the assessment process. The relative quality of these journals is clearly difficult to establish in an objective manner. This paper contributes to the debate about relative quality by conducting a peer review. Eighty-eight UK accounting academics reported their degree of familiarity with, and perceptions of quality of, a total of 44 journals in the accounting and finance discipline. Accounting and Business Research and theBritish Accounting Review were the two most familiar academic journals. The most highly ranked journals were generally from the US.     

纳税人个性特征与纳税遵从关系的实证研究

影响纳税人遵从的因素是多方面的,其中纳税人个性特征会影响纳税遵从.纳税人个性特征包括年龄、职业、受教育程度、风险偏好、价值取向、个人收入水平、纳税心理等.实证研究表明,因纳税人个性特征不同,致使纳税遵从也存在差异.了解哪些因素会影响纳税人的税收遵从行为,可以有针对性地采取措施,提升税务机关的征管质效,促进纳税遵从.     

Price-Fixing and Shareholder Returns: An Empirical Study

This paper examines the market reaction to three different events related to allegations of price-fixing: the initial charges, the firm's plea, and the resolution of the case. Negative, risk-adjusted shareholder returns are associated with the initial charge of price-fixing, while mixed results are observed during the two days immediately after the plea. The ultimate resolution of the case appears to be anticipated by the market. The overall decline in shareholder wealth from all three events combined is about 5 percent. These results suggest that shareholders are at least partial beneficiaries of price-fixing and that the presumption of an agency problem may be incorrect.     

对外直接投资与出口贸易:实证比较研究

对外直接投资与出口贸易呈现出互补或替代的关系,西方学者的研究也证明了这一点,因而对外直接投资与出口贸易之间的关系是一个实证而非理论问题.本文采用国际比较的方法,实证研究了西方发达国家与中国在此问题上的差异.     

我国货币替代成因的实证研究

货币替代问题已越来越受到学者们的关注。本文试图对影响我国货币替代的可能因素:规模性因素、本外币收益率差、汇率因素、国内通货膨胀率、人民币有效汇率波动和制度因素进行综合分析研究。考虑到2001年以前国内居民对外币的需求受到诸多限制,本文选取2001年第二季度到2009年第三季度的数据进行建模分析。结果表明:除了制度因素不是我国货币替代的显著影响因素外,其他的因素对我国的货币替代都有显著影响。     

Income Risk and Portfolio Choice: An Empirical Study

This paper investigates the relationship between portfolio choice and labor income risk in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort. Permanent income risk (variability of shocks to income that have permanent effect) significantly reduces the share of risky assets in the household's portfolio, while transitory income risk (variability of shocks with no lasting effect) does not. This result provides strong evidence that households' portfolio choices respond to labor income risks in a manner consistent with economic theory.     

股票收益率与通胀关系的实证研究

本文基于费雪理论,使用1991-2010年的月度数据对中国股市的收益率与通货膨胀率之间的关系进行实证分析,并进一步检验各行业股票对通胀风险的防御效果。研究结果表明,总体上股票收益率与通胀率显著负相关,即股票不是持续高通胀时期的有效保值工具,但是在材料、医药和消费等行业仍具有较好的通胀防御效果。     

我国外汇储备货币组合的实证分析

截至2006年2月我国外汇储备达8536亿美元,超过日本成为世界外汇储备持有量第一大国,其后我国外汇储备也呈不断增长的态势,到2007年3月已达12020.31亿美元.外汇储备的持续增加意味着面临的风险也在持续增加.因此,如何确定合理的外汇储备币种组合成为目前需要迫切研究的课题.本文根据国内外已有研究确定了外汇储备货币结构的影响因素,结合因子分析法,得出了我国外汇储备币种组合的新选择,提出了我国外汇储备货币组合的对策建议.     

金融压力指数及其政策应用:基于中国的实证分析

宏观审慎政策对系统性金融风险测度方法的有效性提出了更高要求。本文从货币市场、债券市场、股票市场、外汇市场和银行部门选取了10个代表性指标,结合CDF转换、等权重、主成分分析等方法构建了我国的金融压力指数,并通过事件识别和金融压力识别指数检验了其识别作用。通过将金融压力指数引入扩展的产出和通胀方程,本文进一步分析了金融压力指数对经济周期的预测能力。相关结果表明,金融压力指数对宏观经济周期具有良好的预测能力。本文的分析结论为加强金融压力的动态监测和通过构建金融压力指数作为宏观审慎政策的"关注目标"提供了初步的理论基础。     

An Empirical Study of Insurance Performance Measure

This author applies Insurance Performance Measure (IPM) to a set of Indian insurance companies over the period 2005–2016. This is the first article published that applies the IPM model on real industry data and studies its implications. The IPM was introduced in a Winter 2002 JACF article by Joseph Calandro, Jr., then at General Star management, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and by Scott Lane, then an accounting professor at the University of New Haven. Those authors explained why financial reporting for insurance companies was so challenging and presented the IPM metric as a better way to assess industry and company performance. Evaluating P&C companies is difficult because the unique format of insurance company financials does not lend itself to traditional financial accounting analysis and because the industry's preeminent performance measure, the Underwriting Ratio, captures underwriting and claims activity but says nothing about investment and risk distribution (reinsurance). By contrast, the IPM represents the interrelation of underwriting, investment and reinsurance along with a hurdle rate and is quite consistent with Warren Buffett's expressed desire for a balanced overview of industry performance. IPM uses financial data without modification thereby simplifying and fastening computation. Operationally, it could help in negotiations for reinsurance renewals and identify “Maximum Profitable capacity”—the threshold limit for overall profitability.     

中国房地产价格波动与货币政策：一个实证研究

本文采用家庭还款额的支付性指数HAI来测算中国房地产价格的合理性,发现中国房地产市场自1998年以来就存在严重的泡沫;通过对央行货币政策操作目标与房地产价格波动做回归分析,得出央行货币政策对房地产价格波动作出显著响应;建立结构向量自回归模型研究房地产价格波动在给定货币政策准则下对产出缺口和价格稳定的）中击,得出近年来房地产价格波动对价格稳定冲击比较大,对产出冲击比较小的结论;最后提出货币当局应针对房地产价格波动制定最优货币政策准则。     

Pricing Warrants: An Empirical Study of the Black-Scholes Model and Its Alternatives

This paper uses a sample of over 25,000 daily warrant prices to empirically investigate potential problems with the commonly used warrant pricing model proposed by Black and Scholes as an extension of their call option model. One problem seems to be especially important: the constant variance assumption of the dilution adjusted Black-Scholes model appears to cause biases in model prices for almost all warrants and over the entire sample period. We show that more accurate price forecasts are obtained with a specific form of the constant elasticity of variance model.     

出口贸易与内生经济增长的实证研究

基于新贸易理论与新增长理论，重点考察出口贸易如何通过技术外溢效应来影响国内非出口部门的要素生产率，从而最终推动经济增长，尤其比较了工业制成品出口与初级产品出口、东部地区与中西部地区出口贸易对国内非出口部门的不同技术外溢效应，研究表明我国出口通过技术外溢提高了国内非出口部门的要素生产率，但由于出口结构与国内产业结构出现了一定的背离现象，因此导致了非出口部门与出口部门之间技术水平的收剑效应。     

中国货币供给与价格变动的实证分析

本文在回顾各个学派货币供给理论的基础上,综合分析了货币供给对于物价变动水平的影响.利用中国2001-2010年的经验数据,并通过格兰杰因果检验和Pearson、Spearman、Kendall相关性分析发现,货币供给对于价格水平有一定的助推作用,但对资产价格影响甚微.进一步的分析则表明,我国的货币政策对调节价格水平有一定的时效性,而且价格的调控难度也在逐渐增大.     

Trade Credit Management and the Decision to Use Factoring: An Empirical Study

This paper examines the firm's decision to use factoring amongst a cross-sectional sample of 655 manufacturing companies using a rich firm-level database. The paper develops and tests hypotheses that explain this particular choice of credit and financial management policy. We find strong evidence of a 'financing demand' explanation for the use of factoring, and also some support for theories which relate the decision to use a factor to the firm's product characteristics, to market characteristics and to the preferences of the factor (supply constraints). The motivation to use factoring, however, appears to be related more to a demand for asset-based finance from small companies than to firm-level choices about organisational structure.     

An Empirical Study on the Lapse Rate: The Cointegration Approach

We use the cointegration technique to reexamine the contending lapse rate hypotheses: the emergency fund hypothesis and the interest rate hypothesis. We find that the unemployment rate affects the lapse rate in both the long and short run, whereas the interest rate causes variations in the lapse rate mainly in the long run. This evidence seems to be in favor of the emergency fund hypothesis. However, according to the impulse response analysis of the estimated error‐correction model, the interest rate overwhelms the unemployment rate on the overall impact on the dynamics of lapse rate. In other words, the interest rate hypothesis is favored against the emergency fund hypothesis in the sense that the interest rate is more economically significant than the unemployment rate in explaining the lapse rate dynamics.     

封闭式基金折价与管理绩效的实证研究

本文基于管理绩效理论,对我国封闭式基金折价现象进行实证研究。管理绩效理论认为,封闭式基金折价反映了投资者对于基金未来过低的管理能力的理性预期,未来管理绩效越差,折价越大。本文使用了多种基金绩效度量模型,分别采用引入时间哑变量和除去时间均值混合OLS回归方法以及Fama-Macbeth横截面回归方法,验证了折价率和未来管理绩效之间的关系。结果显示,封闭式基金折价和溢价反映了市场对于基金未来管理绩效的预期;当期折价率和未来管理绩效之间存在显著的正向关系,尤其在未来一个季度的时间内;这种关系不受非同步性交易效应和基金异质性的影响。本文同时发现,折价率对于未来管理绩效的解释能力强于过去的管理绩效对于未来管理绩效的解释能力。     

利润波动性与衍生工具使用:基于国有上市公司的实证研究

基于756家国有上市公司2012-2015年的年度数据,本文实证检验了衍生工具使用对利润波动性的影响。研究结果表明:(1)衍生工具使用显著降低利润波动性;(2)应计项目是衍生工具降低利润波动性的中介变量,且可操控性应计项目的中介效应显著,表明公司使用衍生工具进行利润平滑,而现金流的中介效应不显著;(3)衍生工具种类与经济复杂性影响利润平滑效果;(4)2014年7月1日实施的CAS39号公允价值计量准则显著削弱了衍生工具的利润平滑效果。本文首次明确了衍生工具影响利润波动性的作用机制,并发现了公允价值计量准则对于规范衍生工具使用的积极效果。     

Dealer Bid-Ask Quotes and Transaction Prices: An Empirical Study of Some AMEX Options

This paper, utilizing dealer's “trading book” information, presents some empirical evidence supporting the validity of a dealer pricing model. It shows that much of the transaction prices variation may be explained by the specialist's optimal determination of his bid and ask quotes. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the dealer's bid-ask spread is an important explanatory variable in the observed transaction return. Finally, it indicates that the dealer's inventory level may affect his quotes and thus the transaction prices and order arrivals. The paper provides insights into the relationship between transaction prices and equilibrium prices, which will permit more extensive use of transaction data in empirical investigations. It also provides a better understanding of optimal dealer pricing strategies, suggesting that the proposed empirical model may be used to evaluate a dealer's trading performance.