Interregional infrastructure,competition for capital,and local public expenditure policies: Evidence from China's high-speed rail network

Interregional infrastructure promotes market integration and enhances the mobility of capital, thereby intensifying fiscal competition among local governments. Exploiting the expansion of China's high-speed rail (HSR) network as plausibly exogenous shocks, this study examines how Interregional infrastructure affects the fiscal competition among local governments. We find that after connecting with the HSR network, city governments tend to dedicate a lower proportion of public spending to consumption goods, which benefit immobile households, and invest more in productive inputs, which attract mobile firms. We also find that the negative effect of HSR connection on the proportion of consumption goods is more pronounced in peripheral cities than core cities because periphery cities face a larger increase in capital mobility due to the core–periphery effects of trade integration induced by HSR. Our findings indicate that the behavioural responses of local governments should be accounted for when assessing the social welfare of interregional infrastructure.     

我国汽车产业进步中的技术创新模式选择

分析了技术创新模式的主要类型,通过技术创新理论的研究,从产业技术进步的角度,考察我国汽车产业技术进步过程中创新模式的转换过程。重点考察我国汽车产业技术引进的必要性及自主创新的必然性。构建中国特色汽车产业技术创新模式——技术引进与自主创新相结合,以期对我国其它产业选择技术创新模式提供借鉴。     

Corporate tax avoidance and corporate financialization: The moderating effect of managerial myopia

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether managers with tax avoidance motivation also engage in corporate financialization. Using a large sample of Chinese A-share non-financial listed firms from 2009 to 2020, the empirical results show that there is a positive association between corporate tax avoidance and corporate financialization. Moreover, the positive effect of tax avoidance on corporate financialization mainly manifests in firms with myopic managers. Our results are robust to alternative measures of both tax avoidance and managerial myopia. Two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression and propensity score matching (PSM) confirm our results and mitigate any potential endogeneity issues. Overall, we show that the agency costs between shareholders and managers indeed play a critical role between tax avoidance and corporate financialization.     

Tracing the source of liquidity for distressed housing markets

We show that profit-seeking institutional investors provide valuable liquidity and spur the recovery of distressed housing markets. Using a quasi-natural experiment wherein investors purchased prepackaged distressed home portfolios from government-sponsored enterprises, we find that transaction prices of properties located within 0.25 miles of bulk-sale properties increased by 1.4% more than homes located farther away. This positive price spillover effect helped reverse the discounts at which such properties were being sold prior to the bulk-sale event. The price spillover effect due to the bulk-sale event is greater for foreclosed homes (4.1%), homes similar to the bulk-sale homes (2.5%), and homes in highly distressed neighborhoods (7.0%). Our results highlight asset disposition through pooling and institutional participation as a potential market-driven channel for the recovery of distressed housing markets.     

重压力下的中国金融发展

2021年,百年变局与世纪疫情交织,我国经济发展和疫情防控保持全球领先地位。中央坚持以人民为中心推动金融发展,国内货币金融环境从极度宽松回归相对中性,宏观杠杆率降幅明显,货币政策空间明显拓宽。2022年,面临需求收缩、供给冲击、预期转弱三重压力,我国风险挑战明显增多。国内方面,房地产市场快速去杠杆导致经济下行压力加大和金融市场波动加剧,中小银行资产质量恶化和盈利能力弱化并存,隐性债务严监管下弱资质城投的再融资风险和违约风险趋升。国际方面,中美两国经济金融周期开始错位,需警惕美联储加速退出超寬松货币政策和大宗商品价格高位盘整造成的外部冲击。应对三重压力要求金融宏观调控坚持稳字当头、稳中求进,加大货币政策总量宽松力度,结构性货币政策着力提振最终需求,防范化解重点领域风险稳定市场信心。