分位数局部调整模型及应用

本文基于分位数的回归理论与方法,提出了一个新的经济计量模型:分位数局部调整模型,并给出了其数学表示、参数估计与预测方法等一整套建模技术。分位数局部调整模型能够细致地给出响应变量在各个分位点上的条件分位数,便于揭示响应变量位置、散布与形状等动态调整过程的全景信息,从而得到比均值局部调整模型更为深刻的结果。最后,将分位数局部调整模型应用于中国货币需求分析,结果显示,在货币需求的不同阶段,不仅调整速度不同,调整方式也呈现出非对称性;M1存在货币失踪之谜现象,而M2却在条件密度第一个最优区域实现了供求均衡;最优货币需求条件密度曲线较为分散,这为央行制定货币政策预留了足够的空间。     

门限分位数自回归模型的预测方法及应用

金融经济系统预测是宏观经济管理的重要问题,系统中大多数变量具有非线性与异质性等特征,门限分位数自回归（TQAR）模型能够较好地揭示这一特征。本文研究TQAR模型的预测技术,给出其条件分位数预测和条件密度预测方法。数值模拟结果表明,与传统的门限均值自回归模型（TAR）和分位数自回归（QAR）模型相比,TQAR模型在预测的精度和准度方面更具优势。文章使用TQAR模型研究中国通货膨胀的非线性动态特征,并在此基础上预测通货膨胀的波动趋势。实证结果表明,TQAR模型不仅能够揭示通货膨胀的门限效应和异质效应,提供比TAR和QAR模型更高的预测精准度,而且能够通过条件密度预测曲线,细致刻画通货膨胀条件分布的位置、散布与形状等全景信息,从而为宏观经济政策的制定和调整提供科学合理的决策依据。     

零膨胀损失次数的贝叶斯分位回归模型

研究目标：建立零膨胀损失次数的贝叶斯分位回归模型。研究方法：通过增加随机扰动将离散型的损失次数数据转化为连续型数据,在预测误差平方和最小的条件下,求解出分位数水平,并应用贝叶斯方法求解分位回归模型中的参数。研究发现：基于得到的分位回归模型及相应的分位数水平,实现对未来的损失频率的预测。研究创新：借助等式关系,求解分位回归的分位数水平,避免主观选择分位数水平的弊端,实现对零膨胀损失次数贝叶斯分位回归建模。研究价值：基于一组实际数据的实证分析结果表明,该模型可以显著改进现有模型的拟合效果。     

一个新的时变系数分位数回归模型及应用

结合普通分位数回归的模型结构和可行性最小二乘方法的时变系数特征,在普通分位数回归模型的损失函数中引入动态误差设定,提出了一个新的模型：时变系数分位数回归模型,并给出其模型表示、模型估计以及模型检验等建模方法。时变系数分位数回归模型更能够适应广泛数据类型的建模需求,体现回归系数的时变特征,揭示解释变量对响应变量完整条件分布特征的影响,具有广阔的应用前景。将其应用于组合投资决策分析,构造出VaR风险动态组合投资方案,并与VaR风险静态组合投资方案、方差风险静态组合投资方案、方差风险动态组合投资方案等进行实证比较。结果表明,基于时变系数分位数回归模型的VaR风险动态组合投资方案所得投资效果在收益、方差、Sharpe比率和VaR数值等方面都显著优于其他三种方案。     

基于波动率的货币与产出关系检验——来自分位数回归模型的新证据

本文使用1991年1月到2012年3月的样本数据对货币波动率和实际产出波动率之间的关系进行了检验。首先,应用GARCH模型度量货币波动率和产出波动率,进而对二者进行了Granger因果关系检验,发现我国货币供给增长率及其波动率对实际产出增长率及其波动率具有解释和预测能力。其次,使用分位数回归模型研究产出波动率在较小(低分位数)和较大(高分位数)时对货币供给量M0和M1波动率的不同反应程度。最后,提出了稳定产出增长,防止产出剧烈波动的货币政策建议。     

泛函中心极限定理渐进性与具有GARCH误差项的金融时序单位根检验

本文基于分析泛函中心极限定理在高频金融数据单位根检验中的特征与性质，从随机模拟的角度，探讨了有限样本情况下具有GARCH-GED误差项金融时序的ADF单位根检验统计量乙、乙的统计性质，着重研究了不同水平下的分位数、模型滞后阶的设定及GED分布参数的变动对其检验统计特性的影响。随机模拟结果显示，若数据生成模型设定为AR-GARCH-GED过程，常用的ADF单位根检验统计量存在不同的统计性质，并对出现这种现象的原因进行了探索。     

基于预测能力的扩展极限边界分析法

本文在传统EBA方法的基础上,将其引入到时间序列中,构建以预测为导向的AEBA模型选择方法。AEBA在模型选择上更注重于模型的预测能力,在稳健性检验上细分为模型稳健性检验与参数稳健性检验两部分,提出了基于时间序列预测能力的检验方法。最后实证示例用AEBA方法对影响石油股票指数收益率的因素进行了研究,表明该方法选择的模型的预测能力,特别是短期预测能力要显著强于CAPM、三因子模型、ARMA以及VAR。     

基于AEPD分布和ALD分布的VaR模型

本文以成熟市场和新兴市场的六个主要的市场指数为例,将更精确反映金融资产收益率典型事实的AEPD分布和ALD分布运用于股票市场VaR的度量。并与其它常见的非参、半参和参数法VaR模型进行全面比较。实证表明,对于参数法模型,误差项服从ALD分布和正态分布的GARCH族模型分别当且仅当在度量低分位数和高分位数水平下的VaR值时表现优异;而误差项服从AEPD分布的GARCH族模型在度量各种分位数水平下的VaR值时均取得不错的效果。另外对于CAViaR模型,它们在度量VaR时与参数法中表现最好的AR-GJR-GARCH-AEPD(ALD)两个模型效果相当。     

我国物流服务能力的影响因素及其影响程度分析——基于分位数回归法的分析视角

首先以生产函数为理论基础模型,选择相关影响因素构建了我国物流服务能力生产函数模型,并采用逐步回归法对该模型进行了优化,确定了有效的影响因素为通车里程、载货车辆及物流从业人员;然后利用分位数回归法估计和检验模型,并以估计结果为依据深入分析了各影响因素在我国不同物流服务能力水平(不同分位点)下的影响程度。     

分位数回归的金融风险度量理论及实证

金融风险度量指标VaR是风险管理的重要内容。本文研究了不同的分位数回归模型在估计该指标时的表现,并选取标准普尔500指数、日经225指数、上证综指、深证成指进行了实证检验。在递归形式的分位数回归CAViaR模型中,本文的研究发现,SAV-CAViaR模型被拒绝的概率最高。而后验测试表明,IGARCH-CAViaR模型更适合刻画相对成熟的美国和日本金融市场风险的演化过程,而分位数回归的GARCH模型(QGARCH)在国内金融市场有良好表现,尤其是用于估计市场指数收益的1%VaR。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.