An Analysis of Tax Incentives to Attract FDI in Bangladesh： An Empirical Study

The purpose of the study is to understand whether it is still viable to use tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment （FDI） considering their effectiveness and costs to the country, and if not, what should be the alternative, effective, and viable means of promoting the vital FDI inflow. The study investigated various incentives provided by BOI, and other relevant sources available as secondary sources. However, the multinational enterprises （MNEs） are not attracting for investment in Bangladesh always with tax incentives and there are alternative means of attracting FDI such as direct financial grants, subsidies loan guarantees, etc. This paper focuses on tax incentives and the debate against the effectiveness and efficiency in attracting FDI.     

Barriers Inhibiting Export Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms

Abstract

This study uses a step-wise discriminant analysis to address two related questions. First, to identify those inhibiting factors perceived to be both important and difficult to counter when a firm is initiating an export program. Second, to address the criticism that the current export research has failed to differentiate between degree of importance and the level of difficulty that firm may encounter when entering foreign markets. Two-hundred and forty-two small and medium-sized Wisconsin manufacturing firms were surveyed. The findings identified three barriers perceived to be both important and difficult to overcome. However, they did not support the criticism that we must differentiate between the degree of importance and the level of difficulty.     

我国银行业宏观审慎监管问题研究

国际金融危机爆发以后,防范系统性风险和维护金融稳定成为监管机构的主要任务,宏观审慎监管由此备受关注。本文对加强银行业宏观审慎监管的必要性进行了阐述,对现有微观审慎监管体制进行了反思,在此基础上,结合我国实际提出了建立与宏观经济部门的合作关系、调整监管机构内部职责、建立宏观审慎监管框架、完善系统性风险分析工具方法和培育宏观视野的监管人才等建议。     

Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study

Abstract

New sources of finance within the label of ‘impact investing’ have emerged as mechanisms to promote entrepreneurship within marginalized communities. Different vehicles for impact investment have emerged over the years; however, our understanding around their emergence, configuration and adoption is limited. Hence, the main purpose in this research is to study the role of the contextual drivers and conditions that gave rise to a unique form of impact investment in India, a financial social innovation – developmental venture capital (DVC). Through the lens of capital theories, insights from the case of India’s largest and oldest DVC firm along with three of its most prominent investees are presented. Findings highlight that the social entrepreneurs behind the case DVC wholly re-conceptualized silicon valley-style venture capital financing to suit small brick and mortar investments in rural India, developed mechanisms for deploying funding frugally, and created partnerships of equals between themselves and their investees. Investee founders leveraged human and social capital throughout the social innovation process via deep immersion in the socio-cultural milieu of India.     

Consolidation and Competition in the Banking Industries of the EU Member and Candidate Countries

This paper investigates competitive conditions in the banking markets of all EU member and candidate countries over the period 1995-2007. The Panzar and Rosse (1987) model is implemented on bank-level data. In particular, the unscaled revenue equation is employed to assess market structure. Country-specific empirical results suggest a wide variation in the competitive conditions of the banking systems in the sampled countries. Nineteen banking systems are characterized as monopolistically competitive, nine as monopolies or perfectly colluding oligopolies, and two as perfectly competitive over the sample period. This study also investigates whether competition conditions changed over the sample period, using 2001 as an endogenously determined break year. The empirical evidence reveals that banking systems became less competitive after that time.     

论对下岗职工再创业的金融支持

本文围绕金融如何加大对下岗职工支持力度这个中心， 从分析其困难入手， 按创业不同时期的不同需求， 将下岗职工的再创业划分为初创期和成熟期两个阶段， 并依照各个阶段的侧重点对各个时期的金融支持进行了详细的阐述。提出初创期以政策保护扶助为主， 成熟期以自由竞争、市场规律为主。特别在初创期， 提出构建创业银行的构想     

多寡头不确定条件下的矿山企业期权博弈基本价值研究

期权博弈方法把实物期权和博弈论结合起来,在不确定性条件和竞争环境下,为企业提供项目的投资估价和决策,以实现投资项目价值的最大化。竞争环境下的矿山企业博弈参与方不再局限于对称双寡头,而是考虑了序贯均衡阶段的多寡头矿山企业,在进行项目投资决策时,可假设投资初期成本各不相同,建立多寡头矿山企业期权博弈基本价值的价值函数和最佳投资时机进行研究。