Bringing back Thrift Week: Neo-liberalism and the rediscovery of thrift

The paper examines and compares the movements for promoting working-class savings in the modern USA and in Great Britain in the 19th century. It explores the use of savings as a technology for managing individuals’ behaviour and motives and the nature of the government objectives which are served by these parallel projects.     

互联网营销中诚信问题的探讨

互联网营销是 2 1世纪营销创新的焦点 ,随着网络技术的日新月异 ,网上营销的技术障碍逐渐消除 ,而改革和创新网络营销理念 ,特别是强化诚信营销意识 ,这一点在虚拟的互联网世界里变得尤为重要。对当今的互联网营销现状分析后不难发现 ,诚信缺失已成为网上营销发展的真正瓶颈。从微观的角度而言 ,企业的网上诚信营销是它今天的生存之道 ,也是它未来发展的必由之路 ;从宏观的角度来看 ,政府和相关行业部门 ,在构建互联网营销的信用体系上是完全可以有所作为的。     

Financial density selection

We propose and study simple but flexible methods for density selection of skewed versions of the two most popular density classes in finance, the exponential power distribution and the t distribution. For the first type of method, which simply consists of selecting a density by means of an information criterion, the Schwarz criterion stands out since it performs well across density categories, and in particular when the DGP is normal. For the second type of method, general-to-specific density selection, the simulations suggest that it can improve the recovery rate in predictable ways by changing the significance level. This is useful because it enables us to increase (reduce) the recovery rate of non-normal densities by increasing (reducing) the significance level, if one wishes to do so. The third type of method is a generalisation of the second type, such that it can be applied across an arbitrary number of density classes, nested or non-nested. Finally, the methods are illustrated in an empirical application.     

Bank systemic risk and macroeconomic shocks: Canadian and U.S. evidence

This paper investigates how banks, as a group, react to macroeconomic risk and uncertainty; more specifically, it examines the relationship between bank systemic risk and changes and disruptions in economic conditions. Adopting the methodology of Beaudry et al. (2001), we introduce a new estimation procedure based on EGARCH to refine the framework developed by Baum et al., 2002, Baum et al., 2004, Baum et al., 2009 and Quagliariello, 2007, Quagliariello, 2009, and we analyze the relationship in the current industry context—i.e., in the context of market-based banking. Our results confirm that banks tend to behave more homogeneously vis-à-vis macroeconomic uncertainty. In particular, we find that both the cross-sectional dispersion of loans-to-assets and the cross-sectional dispersion of non-interest income share shrink during slow growth episodes, and particularly during financial crises, when the resilience of the banking system is at its lowest. More importantly, our main findings indicate that the cross-sectional dispersion of loans-to-assets has increased in the last decade, whereas the cross-sectional dispersion of non-interest income share appears to be more volatile and sensitive to macroeconomic shocks.     

促进科技服务业发展方法与措施——培养科技服务业人才,建设有产业特色的职业教育

探讨了培养科技服务业人才的意义、方法,着重论述了发展和建设有产业特色的职业教育,可以使职教类院校发挥职业教育职能,为培养科技服务业一线人才作出贡献。     

基于EGARCH模型和Bootstrap方法的在险价值度量

针对孤立使用传统的历史模拟法及GARCH类模型进行风险分析的不足,把EGARCH参数模型与Boostrap非参数方法结合起来,给出了基于EGARCH模型和Bootstrap的VaR测度的半参数方法。实证结果表明,基于EGARCH模型和Bootstrap的VaR度量方法比传统的历史模拟法计算的效果更好。     

我国货币供应量、物价水平与经济增长之间关系的实证研究

针对我国2001～2010年季度数据,通过使用协整关系检验、格兰杰因果检验以及方差分解分析方法进行实证研究发现,长期内我国货币供给的变化与物价和产出的变化之间存在唯一的协整关系;同时存在一个单向的Granger因果关系:货币供给增长率是物价水平增长率的Granger原因,即长期内货币供应量仅对物价水平产生影响。最后根据实证分析结果对货币政策选择提出政策建议。     

中央银行沟通可以作为货币政策工具吗——基于中国数据的分析

本文通过检验我国中央银行沟通对金融市场的影响,间接考察了其是否具有货币政策工具的效力。分析结果表明:我国中央银行沟通对短期利率和股票日收益率水平及波动性具有显著的、与预期一致的影响,但对长期利率的影响不明显;书面沟通与口头沟通相比,后者的效力更强一些,并且在口头沟通中,中央银行行长比其他人更能影响金融市场。主要的政策含义是沟通可以作为我国货币政策一种新的工具,与传统的工具配合使用有利于提高货币政策的有效性。     

Stock Market Volatility in an Emerging Market: Further Evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange

We investigate the time series properties of the daily and weekly returns from the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) index for the years 1987 to 1997. We investigate whether important time-series characteristics have changed significantly over time. The Greek market has recently undergone major changes including complete capital flow liberalization, the implementation of computerized trading, as well as significant increases in market volume and capitalization; we thus contrast the 1987–90 and 1991–97 periods. Our findings suggest the dynamics of the ASE composite index returns have changed as the market has developed.