Liquidity skewness premium

Risk-averse investors may dislike decrease of liquidity rather than increase of liquidity, and thus there can be asymmetric preference in variation of liquidity. In addition, investors are likely to avoid extreme illiquidity. This paper examines whether the skewness of an individual firm’s liquidity capturing asymmetric distribution of liquidity and extreme illiquidity is priced in the US stock market. Using the skewness of the daily price impact, we find that it is positively priced, and this positive relation is significant up to eight months after controlling for other effects. Moreover, we find our results remain significant with the skewness of alternative liquidity measures, i.e., dollar-volume, and turnover.     

After retrotopia? The future of organizing and the thought of Zygmunt Bauman

The main body of work of Zygmunt Bauman concerns his home discipline of sociology, but his insights have been influential also in the field of organization studies. In this text, we provide an overview of the extent of this influence, providing some additional context for positioning the other contributions to this special section. Afterwards, we explore in more detail two notions central for Bauman’s late thought: that of liquidity and retrotopia. The former constitutes the root metaphor for theorizing the current global predicament. In this text, we analyse how two modes of interpreting it, using the assumptions behind Kurt Lewin’s CATS model and the alchemical tradition underpinning Carl Gustav Jung’s conception of archetypes respectively, can help us theorize the alternative modes of organizing and managing encountered in a study of contemporary alternative organizations.These insights form the starting point for our second goal: to explore Bauman’s notion of retrotopia as a potentially fruitful starting point for discussing both the deficiencies of current visions of our future society, and the possibilities and vicissitudes of developing new forms of organizing and managing. Such new forms, both as practice and as theoretical constructs, are urgently needed if we are to face the numerous, and potentially catastrophic global challenges facing our society today.     

政府债券、宏观效应与政策调节--基于规模和流动性双重视角的DSGE效应分析

本文基于政府债券规模和流动性的双重视角,构建动态随机一般均衡模型,通过理论分析和数值模拟,研究二者对实体经济发展和金融风险变量的影响。研究显示:政府债券规模的增加促进了投资,刺激了产出和劳动供给,但过度扩张对实体经济也带来"挤占投资"和物价上升、消费下降等负面效应,同时通过债券作为金融资产的特性向金融部门蔓延并形成金融风险集聚;政府债券流动性增强一定程度上刺激了投资,促进了物价稳定,但也存在"挤占消费"和引起经济波动等负面效应;而政府债券流动性的提升有利于缓释金融风险,对实体经济长期可持续发展有益,但流动性过高也会带来系统性金融风险集聚。本文从促进政府债券一级市场和二级市场协同发展、总量和结构合理匹配、政府债券与实体经济有机契合、政府债券流动性管理与金融供给侧密切衔接等方面提出政策建议。     

Internet search intensity,liquidity and returns in emerging markets

Using a sample of listed companies in the Vietnam stock market from 2013 to 2018, this paper investigates the linkage between Internet search intenseness and stock returns and trading volume. The empirical results confirm the “price pressure hypothesis” that search intensity is positively associated with subsequent stock returns and trading volume. It also finds that the positive effects on stock returns are not temporary but remain for the long term although some reversals occur. The results show that the effects of search intensity on stock returns are higher for large stocks than for small stocks. The findings also reveal that stocks that attract more attention from the public are exposed to higher market risk. These findings have not been documented in the literature so they enrich the information on the relationship between Internet search intenseness and stock market returns, especially for emerging markets where Internet user numbers are sharply increasing.     

Mutual fund liquidity timing ability in the higher moment framework

Using mutual fund data in Thailand, this study shows that fund managers can time the market-wide liquidity in the higher moment framework. High-performing fund managers demonstrate significantly positive liquidity timing ability, while low-performing fund managers do not. Thus, high-performing fund managers increase (decrease) the funds' exposure to the market during a high (low) market liquidity period, while low-performing fund managers do not show the liquidity timing ability. Moreover, only top-performing bank-related mutual funds possess the liquidity timing ability, supporting the information advantage hypothesis. Nonbank-related funds do not possess the liquidity timing ability at both the aggregate and portfolio levels. Several robustness tests confirm the findings.     

Can East Asia rise again?

In recent times, the economies of East Asia have been confronted by two major economic recessions, the first caused by the East Asian financial crisis, and the second by the slump in the ‘new economy.’ The causes of these two recessions, their scope and their influences differ significantly and during these periods of economic downturn the economies affected have adopted various monetary policies aimed at reducing interest rates and tax rates, and pursuing the expansion of government expenditure. However, these policies have obviously not yet been as effective as expected.This paper sets out to determine those factors affecting the possibility of East Asia rising again from the recent economic slump, a slump which has stemmed from excessive investment in the electronics and information industries. The paper begins with an overview of the East Asian economy, with particular reference to the recent serious decline following the steady recovery from the East Asian financial crisis and a review of the measures taken to counter it. Proposals are then made with regard to a number of lessons to be learned from the recent slump.There are three major issues involved in the question of whether East Asia can rise again from the current economic slump. First of all, many of the economies of East Asia have tried their utmost to upgrade their industrial structures from labor- to technology-intensive, or towards a knowledge-based economy and, to some extent, have actually been quite successful in achieving their goals. Secondly, almost all of the East Asian economies have paid particular attention to educational development, with many families having sent their children to foreign countries to receive advanced education in the hope that when they return they can make a substantial contribution to the progress of their home economies—examples of this trend are provided by Taiwan and India. Thirdly, there are abundant natural resources in East Asia along with rich sources of manpower with a hard-working spirit; these two factors can create comparative advantages and strengthen the competitiveness of these economies.In view of the recent developments towards regionalism, it is imperative for the economies of East Asia to form an East Asian Community in the near future, and many of the economies in this region are currently endeavoring to realize this vision, despite many obstacles still facing East Asia which will ultimately need to be overcome.     

中国股票市场操纵对市场流动性的影响研究——基于收盘价操纵行为的识别与监测

基于收盘价操纵后股票价格的变动特征,本文构建了收盘价操纵行为的识别方法——尾市价格偏离模型,并利用中国股票市场的分时高频交易数据实现了可疑收盘价操纵行为的监测。进一步,本文采用面板数据回归实证分析了收盘价操纵影响市场流动性的方向、程度和机制。研究结果表明,收盘价操纵会导致股票交易成本上升和流动性下降,这种影响往往在股票市场处于震荡和下跌阶段时更为显著;同时,投资者报价策略趋于保守化是收盘价操纵对市场流动性产生影响的关键因素,而引发投资者调整报价策略的原因可能是股价波动加剧后订单非执行风险的降低。     

银行间市场流动性与金融风险救助机制研究

文章从我国银行间市场结构特征出发,分析了近年来银行间市场利率和流动性大 幅波动的内在机理与原因。研究认为,塔形市场交易结构下,银行间市场存在流动性风险易聚 集不易分散的缺陷,且难以依靠“有形之手”得到弥补。文章结合塔形市场结构的特点建立矩 阵分析法,对40家金融机构资产负债表进行实证分析。结论印证了理论分析,即塔形市场交易 结构下风险冲击影响时间更长,且央行流动性救助效果降低,但流动性救助机制能降低风险对 中小型地方法人金融机构的冲击。因此,有必要建立流动性风险救助机制,弥补银行间市场客 观存在的缺陷,增强中小型地方法人金融机构抵御银行间市场流动性风险冲击的能力。     

关于债务期限结构影响因素之研究——来自沪深股市上市公司的经验证据

本文对2001至2006年度沪深股市中的575家上市公司债务期限的影响因素进行了研究。结果表明：影响上市公司债务期限的因素主要有流动性风险的一次方、流动性风险的二次方、资产期限、企业规模、财务杠杆、增长期权和边际税率;上市公司的债务融资决策考虑到了其自身的财务风险状况,因而尽管上市公司的债务期限偏短,但却是其理性思索的结果;偏短的债务期限导致上市公司存在着固定资产投资不足的倾向,因此当前应积极发展长期债务市场,努力降低上市公司进行长期债务融资的成本,从而诱使其借入更多的长期债务,以便有更多的长期资金用于其长期资产的投资,最终切实提高其盈利能力的可持续性。