Floating a “lifeboat”: The Banque de France and the crisis of 1889

When faced with a run on a “systemically important” but insolvent bank in 1889, the Banque de France pre-emptively organized a lifeboat to ensure that depositors were protected and an orderly liquidation could proceed. To protect the Banque from losses on its lifeboat loan, a guarantee syndicate was formed penalizing those who had participated in the copper speculation that had caused the crisis bringing the bank down. Creation of the syndicate and other actions were consistent with mitigating the moral hazard from such an intervention. This episode contrasts the advice given by Bagehot to the Bank of England to counter a panic by lending freely at a high rate on good collateral, allowing insolvent institutions to fail.     

The dark and the bright side of liquidity risks: Evidence from open-end real estate funds in Germany

During the 6-month period from December 2005 to June 2006, the German Real Estate mutual fund industry suffered an unprecedented liquidity crisis. We investigate to what extend competing theories of liquidity crises help explain this event. Our results show that fundamental factors not only mattered for the liquidity outflow in normal times but also during the crisis. However, strategic complementarities accelerated the withdrawals during the crisis suggesting that pure panic behavior contributed substantially to the massive outflows. Thus higher liquidity buffers might help mitigating these tail events. Furthermore, we find that funds with a lower fraction of shares held by institutional investors suffered from less significant outflows suggesting that a segmentation of funds for different investor groups might help mitigate panics.     

Hedging house price risk with futures contracts after the bubble burst

This paper extends the existing literature on managing house price risk. While previous work finds that a hedger would have reduced a large amount of variance in housing returns in Las Vegas, Nevada using Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) futures contracts, we show that neither static nor dynamic strategies would have maintained an effective hedge during the significant decline in housing prices. The inability to hedge house price risk using CME futures contracts ultimately calls into question the long-term viability of housing futures.     

Did the value premium survive the subprime credit crisis?

We provide evidence that value stocks significantly underperformed growth stocks during the subprime credit crisis, despite a positive value premium before the crisis. The reversal in the value premium concentrates in financially constrained firms, suggesting it was due to the adverse influence of the crisis rather than confounding effects. These findings are robust to alternative financial constraint proxies and asset pricing models. The observation that value stocks are vulnerable to losses during extreme downturns like the crisis is consistent with them being riskier than growth stocks. Our findings have implications for the academic debate on the underlying cause of the value premium and for investors on the profitability of value investing strategies.     

美国量化宽松货币政策对人民币汇率的影响——-基于ＡＲＩＭＡＸ模型的实证分析

以中国２００５年７月—２０１３年１０月的人民币实际汇率的月度数据为样本,采用干扰分析法对金融危机和美国量化宽松货币政策背景下的人民币汇率进行了实证分析。ＡＲＭＡＸ检验的结果表明,单纯金融危机对人民币汇率的影响并不显著,表明金融危机本身并未对人民币汇率形成实质性影响与瞬时脉冲效应;而考虑美国量化宽松货币政策因素之后的金融危机对人民币汇率产生了明显的贬值压力,金融危机和美国量化宽松货币政策两者综合作用的结果是对人民币汇率产生显著的贬值压力。相对而言,美国第一轮量化宽松货币政策对人民币汇率贬值压力最大,而第二轮量化宽松货币政策对人民币汇率产生升值的压力,第三轮与第四轮量化宽松货币政策对人民币汇率的影响并不显著。     

二战后马克思主义经济学面临的现实性挑战及其回应

时代的发展与变迁对马克思主义经济学提出了新的问题和挑战,对此中外马克思主义经济学者在理论上进行了大量的有价值的研究和探索。从科技革命的推动与资本主义的历史地位、市场经济体制的建立与社会主义的发展、西方经济思潮的冲击与马克思主义经济学主流地位的坚守四个方面,梳理了二战以来中外马克思主义经济学者的研究成果,发现马克思主义经济学的生命力与科学性正是源于在实践中的丰富和发展,因此,坚持马克思主义经济学在中国的指导地位,首先必须在新的时代条件下,与时俱进,创新和发展马克思主义经济学。     

新型军人养老保险制度的构建及其转轨成本测算

我国现行军人养老保险是军队统筹,且保障范围狭窄、制度衔接不畅、实际养老待遇较低、财政负担过重、基金管理效率低下;为实现养老保险制度全民统筹和切实保障军人的养老权益,应构建社会统筹与个人账户相结合、辅以年金账户的新型军人养老保险制度。军人养老保险制度的转轨成本来源于当前军人养老保险制度下隐性债务的显性化,采用系统动力学模型对军人养老保险制度的转轨成本进行模拟测算,结果表明：截至2090年底转轨成本将全部显性化,“老人”和“中人”的转轨成本都呈先增后减的趋势,2035—2065年的转轨成本最高;借助社会统筹账户资金积累的缓冲和人口年龄与人口结构的变化,能够分散制度转轨带来的财务支付风险,改革不会对政府财政带来巨大压力。因此,应坚持养老保险社会统筹的改革方向,积极推进军人养老保险制度改革。     

美国市政债券偿债机制经验及启示

美国市政债券从发行策略、资金用途、偿债来源、举债控制和债务重组五个方面构建完备的偿债机制。我国地方政府应借鉴美国的经验,根据资金用途发行债券以减少偿债风险,开征房产税作为债券偿还的稳定来源,通过立法和社会监督建立地方政府发债的硬约束,通过地方政府破产程序建立地方政府债务重组机制,把地方政府负债作为政绩考核的重要指标,抑制地方政府发债的道德风险。     

P2P 网贷债权转让模式的法律风险与防范

P2 P网贷作为传统金融业与互联网结合的新兴领域,其运营模式多样而复杂,行业监管机制尚未构建完成。 P2 P网贷债权转让模式作为P2 P网贷的变型运营模式更是处于金融监管的空白地带,争议不断。从法律视角分析P2 P网贷争议模式———债权转让模式,分析该模式下可能存在的风险,通过与英国、美国等国家P2 P网贷的比较,提出完善P2 P网贷债权转让模式行业自律、外部监管等防范法律风险的建议。     

TRAMO/SEATS在危机事件中对旅游影响研究的应用

国内外对旅游危机事件的研究集中于管理方面,近年相关热点转向对旅游影响的研究.以往定性研究多,从经济数量模型进行定量分析研究的较少.本文使用在经济金融领域使用广泛的ARIMA改进版--TRAMO/SEATS方法评估危机事件,如疾病、地震等突发事件对中国旅游业的影响.作为欧盟各国统计局主要统计方法,TRAMO/SEATS方法能够最大程度地反映旅游业季节性波动的特点.通过该方法对2003年在中国内地和香港地区爆发的SARS进行实证研究,分析评估该危机事件的长期影响.在此基础上提出,国家短期内应当通过提高产品质量和拓展高质量的细分市场实现旅游效益型增长;恢复后期才可以推出更为直接的促销手法实现旅游数量型增长,采取刺激旅游人数快速增长的政策和措施.