Effects of Bank Funds Management Activities on the Disintermediation of Bank Deposits

Abstract:   This study investigates the alleged disintermediation of banks' traditional deposit‐taking in favour of investment management activities. Using data on Australian bank‐affiliated funds and a nine‐year record of the parent banks' liability balances, this study finds that managed funds do not displace bank liabilities. Prudential capital adequacy requirements dissuade banks from using in‐house managed investments as indirect conduits for raising funds in the same manner as deposit‐taking.     

Organizational Capital and Investment‐Cash Flow Sensitivity: The Effect of Management Quality Practices

This paper examines the influence of organizational capital, as evident in management quality practices, on the response of firm investment to internal cash flows. We provide novel and strong evidence that investment sensitivity to internal cash flows decreases in the presence of superior management practices. We also find that superior management practices reduce the firm's financing frictions, evident in lower capital constraints. Our results are robust to numerous tests. Overall, our findings suggest that intangible organizational capital is important for investment decisions and that superior management practices contribute to value‐maximizing behavior.     

The Relationship between Earnings,Funds Flows and Cash Flows: Evidence for the UK

Recent UK information content studies have provided evidence of a significant relationship between earnings and share prices, as in the US, but have also identified an apparent lack of information content for operating cash flow, which is in marked contrast to findings from US research. This paper provides direct evidence on the relationship between earnings, funds flows and cash flows in the UK during the period 1965–84, using tests of association and predictive tests based on a research methodology applied by Bowen, Burgstahler and Daley (1986) to US data. The results provide UK evidence on the contemporaneous and predictive relationships between measures of earnings, funds flows and cash flows which are generally consistent with the US findings of Bowen et al. and which do not support the view that earnings in the UK are superior to cash flows as predictors of future cash flows.     

Cash Flow Accounting Revisited: A Note on a Partial Replication of the Lee Study

This paper examines the attitudes of audit partners in U.S. public accounting firms towards various forms and dimensions of cash flow accounting (CFA), and in part replicates Lee's 1981 study. A total of 800 questionnaires were mailed. Despite the call by some cash flow proponents (i.e., Thomas, 1974) for additional CFA disclosures, the conclusions drawn from this study were that the current historical costs system is, in general, regarded as adequate for evaluating the economic performance of an entity, and there is a perception that publicly disclosed, supplementary cash flow information is not required.     

基于人工智能的区域现金需求预测模型研究——以南阳市为例

当前,我国非现金支付对现金支付的替代作用日益显著,但现金支付在居民日常支付中仍占据重要地位。在此背景下,如何精确地预测区域现金需求,保证满足区域现金流通需要已成为一项重要课题。通过借鉴国内外机器学习、神经网络等人工智能技术,基于地区现金投放历史数据,使用岭回归、MLP和LSTM三种模型,构建RR-MLP-LSTM加权组合模型实现了区域现金需求预测,对于统筹货币发行工作、积极防范和化解货币供应风险具有较为重要的借鉴意义。     

基于人工智能的区域现金需求预测模型研究——以南阳市为例

当前,我国非现金支付对现金支付的替代作用日益显著,但现金支付在居民日常支付中仍占据重要地位。在此背景下,如何精确地预测区域现金需求,保证满足区域现金流通需要已成为一项重要课题。通过借鉴国内外机器学习、神经网络等人工智能技术,基于地区现金投放历史数据,使用岭回归、MLP和LSTM三种模型,构建RR-MLP-LSTM加权组合模型实现了区域现金需求预测,对于统筹货币发行工作、积极防范和化解货币供应风险具有较为重要的借鉴意义。     

A Tax on Tax Revenue: The Incentive Effects of Equalizing Transfers: Evidence from Germany

Several recent studies suggest that equalizing transfers in a federal system may distort the tax policy decisions of states. We study this issue for the German federal fiscal system. In a simple theoretical model, we first identify a substitution effect and an income effect of equalizing transfers. Our main hypothesis is that both effects should tend to reduce tax revenue of German states. We perform various empirical tests which confirm this hypothesis.     

Influence of Culture on Earnings Management: A Note

This article examines the influence of national culture on earnings management across a broad cross-section of countries. In addition to examining the relation between culture and earnings management in general, two different types of earnings management are examined, namely, earnings smoothing and earnings discretion. Regression results indicate that, as expected, the cultural dimensions of uncertainty avoidance and individualism are significantly related to earnings management, even after controlling for investor protection and other legal institutional factors. Culture has a stronger relation with earnings smoothing than with earnings discretion, and cultural dimensions explain a greater percentage of the variation in aggregate earnings management and earnings smoothing than do investor protection variables. These findings suggest that there is a significant link between culture and cross-national differences in earnings management, especially in the form of earnings smoothing.     

The Effects of Uncertainty on the Demand for Health Insurance

This article analyzes the effects of uncertainty and increases in risk aversion on the demand for health insurance using a theoretical model that highlights the interdependence between insurance and health care demand decisions. Two types of uncertainty faced by the individuals are examined. The first one is the uncertainty in the consumer's pretreatment health and the second is the uncertainty surrounding the productivity of health care. Comparative statics results are reported indicating the impact on the demand for insurance of shifts in the distributions of pretreatment health and productivity of health care in the form of first‐order stochastic dominance, Rothschild–Stiglitz mean‐preserving spreads, and second‐order stochastic dominance. The demand for insurance increases in response to a Rothschild–Stiglitz increase in risk in the distribution of the pretreatment health provided that the health production function is in a special class and the price elasticity of health care is nondecreasing in the pretreatment health. Provided also that the demand for health care is own‐price inelastic, the same conclusion is obtained when the uncertainty is about the productivity of health care.     

Extending the Classification of European Countries by their IFRS Practices: A Research Note

Abstract

This paper expands the IFRS accounting systems’ classification proposed by Nobes [(2011). IFRS practices and the persistence of accounting system classification. Abacus, 47(3), 267–283] to a broader set of European countries. The results suggest a classification distinguishing between four groups of European countries, and add to the evidence, reported by Kvaal and Nobes [(2010). International differences in IFRS policy choice. Accounting and Business Research, 40(2), 173–187] and Nobes (2011)., that pre-IFRS accounting differences influence the options adopted by firms. This study contributes to the literature suggesting that the widespread adoption of IFRS has not eliminated the differences between national accounting practices and that accounting systems classification did not lose its relevance.     

A Portfolio's Country Exposure Management: The Case of Latin American Mutual Funds

This study empirically examines the forecasting ability and performance of Latin American fund managers by evaluating changes in portfolio country exposure. It employs a methodology based on attribution returns. An attribution return is defined as the difference between the actual monthly fund return and the return that would have been generated by the previous month portfolio's country exposure. The study finds three major results. In the aggregate, Latin American fund managers demonstrate forecasting ability as evidenced by a positive and statistically significant attribution return. The fund managers outperform a regional benchmark when measured with Jensen's alpha, and the attribution return is positively correlated with alpha. Attribution returns are mostly negative during periods of financial instability in the region.     

基于最佳库存资金持有量的国库现金管理研究

保持国库库存余额稳定,减少库存波动对货币政策的冲击是国库现金管理的一个重要课题.在最佳持有量测算模型中,Miller-Orr模型运用了概率函数思想,具有可实现区间预测、区间确定灵活,能适应财政收支随机波动的优点.本文以2011～ 2014年新疆省级国库现金流量为样本,借助此模型测算了国库现金最佳持有量及波动区间,并对2015年上半年进行模拟操作.测算和模拟结果表明,在预算收支未知的情况下,最佳持有量及其区间,基本上满足了在确保财政支出足额支付前提下,保持国库余额稳定、收益明显提高的要求,Miller-Orr模型的应用对地方国库现金管理开展具有积极推动作用.     

农业科研单位专项资金管理的若干思考

农业科技的快速发展、不断创新,使得财政对农业科研单位的专项支持力度越来越大,专项资金规模快速增长.在专项资金的申报、使用、考评过程中,出现了一系列问题急需解决,本文对专项资金管理中出现的新情况新问题进行了剖析,并提出了相应的管理对策及措施.     

国库现金管理对我国货币政策的影响:一个实证分析

中央财政管理的国库资金是社会资金流量中的一个重要组成部分,对中央银行制定货币政策、调控货币供应量和公开市场操作都影响重大,在现代市场经济条件下,国库已成为连接财政和金融的窗口和桥梁,对财政政策和货币政策的有机配合发挥着重要的作用。本文以近年来我国正在开展的国库集中支付制度改革为背景,实证分析了国库现金管理对我国货币政策格局的影响,提出了我国进一步提高国库管理水平、加强货币政策管理的政策建议。     

电子货币视角下的商业银行流动性需求

电子货币的快速发展已经给传统金融理论带来了挑战,特别是对以货币作为经营对象的商业银行经营管理产生了明显的冲击。文章以电子货币发展为视角,尝试性地引入凯恩斯的货币需求理论分析商业银行的流动性需求,旨在为商业银行的流动性管理提供有益的思路。