Financing constraints and unemployment: Evidence from the Great Recession

This paper shows that financing constraints of small firms were one of the drivers of unemployment dynamics during the 2007–2009 recession in the United States. Specifically, workers in small firms were more likely to become unemployed during the 2007–2009 recession than comparable workers in large firms, but only if they were employed in industries with high financing needs. We find very similar results for the 1990–1991 recession, but not for the 2001 recession, where only the former was associated with a reduction in loan supply. The findings support the credit constraints hypothesis and underscore the role of bank lending in explaining labor market activity.     

The growth of multinational firms in the Great Recession

Using a large firm-level dataset, this paper studies multinational firms׳ performance during the Great Recession. Foreign multinationals grew faster than local firms outside of the crisis, but slower during the crisis. Industry and size differences between domestic and foreign-owned firms account for much of this slowdown. However, multinationals from different countries performed differently during the crisis. The paper then assesses the role of multinationals in the global recession using a quantitative model. Had multinationals׳ relative performance remained unchanged during the crisis, the median country׳s aggregate growth would have been 0.12% higher, with a range of −0.13 to 0.5% across countries.     

Uncertainty shocks and unemployment dynamics in U.S. recessions

What are the effects of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics? We answer this question by estimating non-linear (Smooth-Transition) VARs with post-WWII U.S. data. The relevance of uncertainty shocks is found to be much larger than that predicted by standard linear VARs in terms of (i) magnitude of the reaction of the unemployment rate to such shocks, and (ii) contribution to the variance of the prediction errors of unemployment at business cycle frequencies. The ability of different classes of DSGE models to replicate our results is discussed.     

本次国际金融危机与大萧条的宏观经济政策比较

本文以世界经济史中两次最重大的金融危机为研究对象,以主要经济体的宏观应对政策为视角,比较研究两次金融危机中财政政策和货币政策及其效应的异同,进一步总结政策经验,旨在为应对金融危机提供政策启示。     

Liquidity provision,interest rates,and unemployment

The effective liquidity supply of the economy—the weighted-sum of all assets that serve as media of exchange—matters for interest rates and unemployment. We formalize this idea by adding an over-the-counter market with collateralized trades to the Mortensen–Pissarides model. An increase in public liquidity through a higher supply of real government bonds raises the real interest rate, crowding out private liquidity and increasing unemployment. If unemployment is inefficiently high, keeping liquidity scarce can be socially optimal. A liquidity crisis affecting the acceptability of private assets as collateral widens the rate-of-return difference between private and public liquidity, also increasing unemployment.     

Does Consumption Respond More to Housing Wealth Than to Financial Market Wealth? If So,Why?

This paper uses long-run equilibrium relationship between consumption and different components of wealth to estimate the effect of changes in housing wealth and financial wealth on consumption. By exploiting this long-run property, it has been shown that a dollar increase in housing wealth increases consumption by seven cents, whereas, a corresponding dollar increase in financial wealth increases consumption by only three cents. This difference in the wealth effect arises because transitory shocks dominate variation in financial wealth, whereas permanent shocks account for most of the variation in housing wealth. This paper also shows that the relative importance of permanent component for housing wealth has witnessed an increase over the last thirty years. Therefore, housing wealth effect has also increased over time.     

收入差异下的住房财富效应分化——基于283个地级市数据和CHFS家庭微观数据的实证分析

本文将收入分配结构因素纳入LC-PIH模型,试图从收入分层角度寻找我国住房市场弱财富效应的根源。基于283个地级市的面板数据和CHFS家庭微观调查数据的实证研究表明:房价对消费的影响具有门限特征,中等收入城市的住房财富效应最为明显;收入作用下的家庭住房财富效应也呈现倒U形。总体上,我国住房财富效应较弱源于收入的结构性差异,中等收入群体比重偏低可能导致房价上涨对消费的促进作用被低收入阶层和高收入阶层的挤出作用抵消。     

金融资产财富效应的形成机理研究

本文借助消费函数理论、行为金融理论分析了金融资产财富效应的形成机理,并将金融资产财富效应的传导机制归纳为实际收入效应、预期收入效应、流动性约束效应、信心效应、托宾q效应、替代效应等六种效应。除替代效应是负的财富效应外,其它效应均为正的财富效应,而金融资产财富效应的差异性既是上述各效应综合作用的结果,也是不同国家在不同时期影响金融资产变动的因素存在差异的结果。     

Stagflation,persistent unemployment and the permanence of economic shocks

When changes occur, people do not know how long they will persist. Using a simple stochastic structure that incorporates temporary and permanent changes in an augmented IS-LM model, we show that rising prices and rising unemployment — stagflation is likely to follow a large permanent reduction in productivity. All markets clear and all expectations are rational. People learn gradually the permanent values which the economy will reach following a permanent shock and gradually adjust anticipations. In our model, optimally perceived permanent values take the form of a Koyck lag of past observations.     

Analysis of the hysteresis of unemployment in Mexico in the face of macroeconomic shocks

This research presents the behavior of the Mexican unemployment rate and shows the dependence with own history and macro variables. The concept of hysteresis or persistence tries to separate this inertia in the unemployment rate and some macroeconomic and endogenous factors. The results show a high inertia in the Mexican labor market, justified by the monetary levels and the dependence of the investment levels, considering the shocks of exports that affect the unemployment in the long term.     

论主权财富基金的监管及对中国的借鉴

主权财富基金作为外汇保值增值、促进经济发展的有效工具,正在得到越来越多国家的认可与发展。但是引入主权财富基金的东道国因担心其冲击国内经济秩序,战略性地破坏国内经济发展,纷纷要求对主权财富基金进行监管。这种监管分为引导主权财富基金流向的一般性监管和限制主权财富基金进入的严格监管两种。IMF、世界银行等国际组织也对此表示了关注。在庞大的外汇储备压力下,成立主权财富基金成为我国的必然选择,如何适应对主权财富基金的监管,成为中国主权财富基金发展的重中之重。     

全球经济失衡、主权财富基金与金融稳定

全球经济失衡导致新兴国家的外汇储备巨额盈余,以外汇储备为资金来源的主权财富基金在此背景下迅速崛起。主权财富基金在全球范围内的大规模跨境投资,给国际金融市场稳定带来了正负两方面的效应。为了维护全球金融市场的健康持续发展,必须从金融稳定的视角,构建主权财富基金的国际监管框架。     

主权财富基金信息透明度问题研究

主权财富基金已经成为国际金融市场上不可忽略的力量,但大多说主权财富基金的透明度却非常低是不争的事实,并已成为国际金融市场安全以及母国资金保全的诟病。但透明度低并非主权财富基金与生俱来的特征。主权财富基金信息透明化,应本着维护母国公民利益,保护东道国金融安全以及维护金融市场稳定等目标的基础上,遵循自愿披露原则,来披露相关投资信息。     

Optimal taxation and redistribution in an OLG model with unemployment

This paper concerns redistribution via nonlinear income taxation in an overlapping generations model with two ability-types. We assume that the wage rates are determined by bargaining between unions and firms, meaning that the equilibrium is characterized by involuntary unemployment. We show that the policy instruments that are used to calculate the marginal labor income tax rate for each ability-type give rise to intertemporal tax base effects. In addition, since the relationship between the employment and the capital stock implies intertemporal production inefficiency at the second best optimum, imperfect competition in the labor market may itself justify capital income taxation.      

Monetary shocks,exchange rates,and the extensive margin of exports

This paper develops a two-country Dynamic General Equilibrium model to assess the relationship between the real exchange rate and the extensive margin of exports. Exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices governs the relative strength of a demand channel onto the exporting decision of a firm. With incomplete pass-through, a favorable movement in the real exchange rate generates increased export participation and an expansion in the extensive margin of exports. This result is consistent with firm-level studies, and contributes to an ongoing empirical debate as to the importance of changes in export participation over the business cycle.     

Dynamic fiscal policies and unemployment in a simple endogenous growth model

This paper analyzes the growth and employment effects of dynamic fiscal policies in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth and imperfect labour markets. With balanced-budget policies, the modelled closed economy grows at a constant rate which is higher, the lower are the labour tax rate and the unemployment rate. Constant-flow budget policies are not feasible, while government Ponzi games are feasible only if economic agents have implausibly high savings rates. Furthermore, while constant-stock fiscal policies are sustainable, an increase in the debt-to-capital ratio is accompanied by higher taxes, a rise in unemployment and lower economic growth. JEL Classification E24 · J51 · H63 · O41     

掏空、财富效应与投资者保护——基于上市公司关联担保的经验证据

LLS(1999)指出,上市公司的主要代理问题并不是在管理者和股东之间,而是在大股东与小股东之间。国外众多研究提供了大股东掏空的证据。控股股东掏空是各国普遍存在的问题,但在投资者利益保护水平低的国家尤为严重。本文以2001—2004年我国非金融业A股上市公司为研究样本,实证研究了最恶劣的掏空形式之一——关联担保,得出的主要结论如下:(1)关联担保发生的概率、次数与相对金额从2001年到2004年呈递增趋势。(2)有关联担保的上市公司的Tobin-Q比无关联担保的公司平均低0．2,关联担保每增加一次, Tobin-Q下降0．09,关联担保率每增加一个百分点,Tobin-Q下降0．4;有关联担保的公司的年度异常回报率比无关联担保公司低3%,关联担保每增加一次,年度异常回报率下降2%,关联担保率每增加一个百分点,年度异常回报率下降9%。(3)第一大股东持股比例与关联担保显著负相关,股权制衡没有发挥对关联担保的抑制作用。(4)投资者利益保护水平与关联担保显著负相关。总之,本文发现上市公司的关联担保损害了投资者利益,提高投资者利益保护水平在一定程度上可以缓和控股股东的掏空。     

Time-varying impacts of demand and supply oil shocks on correlations between crude oil prices and stock markets indices

This paper investigates the time-varying impacts of demand and supply oil shocks on correlations between changes in crude oil prices and stock markets returns. The findings, obtained by means of a DCC-GARCH from June 2006 to June 2016, indicate that demand shocks positively affected the correlations between crude oil prices and stock market returns from late 2007 to mid-2008, during the apex of the financial markets volatility; from early 2009 to mid-2013, during global economy recovery from the financial crisis; and after 2015, when uncertainties about the Chinese growth and the US economy upturning arose. The dynamic conditional correlation, obtained after the removal of demand shocks effects, presented an average value of 0.13 when all economy sectors were considered and of 0.03 when the energy sector returns were excluded from the stock index. These correlations, still positive on average, suggest that exogenous supply oil shocks had little impact on US mainly enterprises cash flows over the last 10 years. Exceptions are the periods from 2006 to financial crisis and from 2014 until April 2016, when significant and unpredicted changes in oil market happened, considerably affecting the value of the main US companies.     

Contrarian flows,consumption and expected stock returns

We investigate the relation between contrarian flows, consumption growth, and market risk premium. We construct a contrarian flows measure by summing up the capital flows to stocks that go against the total flow of the aggregate market. We show that the contrarian flows are negatively influenced by the same-quarter consumption growth. During bad times, the majority of investors who are affected by the negative shock reduce their equity exposure, and these extra supplies of risky assets are absorbed by contrarian investors who are least affected by the consumption shock. Using quarterly stock market data, we find that the contrarian flows forecast market returns at short-to-intermediate horizons. The predictability stems from the component that is explained by the consumption growth, and therefore the consumption growth contains valuable information about the market risk premium. Moreover, the predictability is stronger for growth stocks than for value stocks, and hence it negatively predicts the value premium. This is because the contrarian flows measure the market risk premium and growth stocks bear more discount rate risk than value stocks. Out-of-sample tests show that the main results are robust to data-snooping bias.