海湾六国经货联盟经济周期同步性分析

海湾六国计划在2010年建立单一货币联盟,而经济周期同步性是货币联盟稳定性的重要基础条件。本文从经济周期同步性角度考察海湾六国是否具备货币联盟稳定性的基础条件。本文通过建立多变量向量误差修正模型(VECM),并依据共同趋势和共同周期理论,对海湾六国的经济周期同步性进行了经验分析。分析结果表明:海湾六国不仅在长期内经济周期有共同的随机发展趋势;而且在短期内,经济周期是完全同步的。因此,海湾六国基本上满足货币联盟稳定性的基础条件。     

Bilateral Trade and the Eurozone: Evidence from New Member Countries

The question of whether and how much currency unions increase bilateral trade among their members has garnered much attention since Rose’s seminal article. The answer is as pertinent now as ever for both the Eurozone’s existing and future members as the financial crisis shook the very foundations of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and brought its shortcomings into the spotlight. This paper analyses the issue using the gravity equation with country pair and time fixed effects. For a sample of the four new members of the EMU – Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus – which has, to the author’s knowledge, not been studied thus far due to their recent joining, and controls drawn from the European Union, this paper finds a positive relationship between joining the EMU and trade with EMU partners but not with non‐EMU partners.     

Possible Dynamic Effects of AFTA for the New Member Countries

We discuss the possible dynamic benefits of economic integration for the new members of ASEAN. Direct evidence on regional integration and growth is weak, but three indirect channels are possible. Openness increases access to foreign knowledge, which could help productivity growth. Trade liberalisation is likely to stimulate investment and might promote the integration of the regional production network. Binding liberalisation under AFTA would help ‘lock‐in’ and accelerate liberal economic reforms. These gains are not automatic, however. Discriminatory liberalisation will switch imports from sources with high stocks of knowledge towards ASEAN countries, which have lower stocks, and so may lower productivity growth. We term this ‘dynamic’ trade diversion. In addition, local absorptive capabilities must be developed to benefit fully from technology transfer. Finally, we recommend extending AFTA commitments on an MFN basis in order to avoid static and dynamic trade diversions.     

How FTAs Affect Income Levels of Member Countries

The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether FTAs cause the income levels of member economies to converge or diverge. Although existing studies predict the possibility of convergence among FTA members to a certain degree, they fail to provide definitive evidence. By using the concept of accelerating convergence, this study aims to estimate the pure convergence effects of FTAs, separate from the conventional notion of income convergence, so‐called β‐convergence. The neoclassical model of economic growth has been extended to incorporate varying steady states for an open‐economy framework. Applying the system GMM method to a dynamic panel of data consisting of major FTAs – comprising the European Union, NAFTA, Mercosur and AFTA, and encompassing the cases of launching an FTA, expanding membership or deepening FTA integration – we find considerable evidence for the income convergence effect of FTAs.     

On the Optimality of a GCC Monetary Union: Structural VAR,Common Trends,and Common Cycles Evidence

The suitability of the proposed monetary union among the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is examined. The authors identify the underlying structural shocks that these economies are subject to and assess the extent to which the shocks are symmetric. Alternatively, the authors test for common trends and common business cycles among the GCC economies. They find that while the transitory demand shocks are typically symmetric, the permanent supply shocks are asymmetric. Furthermore, they do not find synchronous long‐run and short‐run movements in output. Despite the progress that has been made in terms of integration, the findings indicate that the conditions for forming a GCC monetary union have not as yet been met.     

亚洲发展中成员国服务贸易竞争力及影响因素分析

亚洲发展中成员国在发展中国家中有着举足轻重的地位,而其相对较强的服务贸易竞争力为亚洲进一步快速发展提供了契机。在理论分析影响服务贸易竞争力因素的基础上采取面板数据模型进行了实证分析,表明发展中成员国的服务贸易竞争力与经济增长、服务业水平、服务业基础设施水平、人力资本水平、政府财政支出规模正相关,与货物贸易水平和外商直接投资水平负相关,并据此提出了应对措施。     

人民币汇率与中国的货币控制

本文以近期掀起的又一轮呼吁人民币升值的讨论为背景,再次对人民币汇率以及中国货币控制进行分析。通过分析因人民币升值而引起的中国所面临的货币困境,以及解决困境所采取的措施(即建立CIC和对流动性的对冲操作),评论了措施的局限性,并从汇率的利率平价理论入手分析人民币汇率与中国货币控制的互动关系;借鉴日本经验分析并佐证了关于汇率的几个错误概念,提出近期应去除人民币单向升值的预期,只有保持汇率相对稳定才有利于中国经济发展。     

基于物流绩效指数的RCEP国家物流发展比较

亚太区域全面经济伙伴关系协定(RCEP)各成员国的物流绩效的提高,对促进成员国的贸易发展、提升国际贸易水平具有重要意义。利用RCEP各成员国的物流绩效指数(LPI),通过多角度分析、探索物流高水平发展的新路径。分析发现中国在基础设施方面取得了一定的成效,但在清关及物流服务质量和能力方面依然有待提高。通过物流绩效指数聚类,将RCEP成员国分为三类不同物流水平的国家,第一类为物流高水平国家,包括新加坡、日本、澳大利亚、韩国、新西兰和中国;第二类为物流中水平国家,包括印度尼西亚、越南、马来西亚和泰国;第三类为物流低水平国家,包括柬埔寨、文莱、菲律宾、老挝和缅甸。通过计算各成员国LPI变异系数发现,物流高水平国家的物流绩效基本保持稳定,低水平国家中有的能持续上升,有的表现则很不稳定。物流中水平国家,需要保持持续增长趋势,才能不断缩小与物流高水平国家之间的差距,而物流低水平国家则需要全方位的提升。     

财政货币政策在宏观调控中的协调配合

在财政政策与货币政策之间存在一些结合部,深入研究这些结合部对于充分发挥财政货币政策作用,减少政策摩擦,具有重要意义。本文认为,我国政府已经能够根据宏观经济形势的需要主动选择适当的政策组合,运用间接手段调节供求关系,并初步建立了适应市场运行机制的宏观调控体系。文章强调,财政货币政策的协调配合一直是宏观调控的核心问题之一,随着我国政府“财政货币双稳健”宏观调控思想的确立,两大政策的协调配合将从以总量调控为主转向以结构或制度配合为主。     

Regional financial integration in the GCC

We investigate the extent of regional financial integration in the member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Interest rate data show that convergence exists and that interest rate differentials are relatively short-lived—especially relative to other unified currency area and comparable to those of the Euro Area post 1999. Equity data using cross-listed stocks confirm that stock markets are fairly integrated compared to other emerging market regions, although price equalization is hampered by market illiquidity. The limited volume data available suggests that intra-GCC capital flows are sizeable.     

中国与经合组织国家对水产业国内支持的比较及对策

水产品是我国重要的农业类出口产品,世贸组织“多哈回合”谈判将水产品国内支持纳入了谈判议题,因此,深入研究水产品国内支持问题具有重要的现实意义。通过对我国与经合组织国家对水产业国内支持状况的比较分析,以及世贸组织相关规则的研究,就我国水产业国内支持政策的调整提出若干建议。     

Industrial Policy in the New Member Countries of the European Union: A Survey of Patterns and Initiatives Since 1990

The transitional recession in the new Central and East European members of the EU called for completely novel approaches to industrial policy in the nineties. A strong rejection of industrial policy could be observed only in some countries and during the first years of the transition process. Subsequently however, deteriorating competitiveness, soaring unemployment and the dramatic condition of key export sectors made the re-appearance of supply-side economic policy thinking inevitable in most Central East European Countries (CEECs), except for such small and open economies as Slovenia and Estonia. A wide variety of industrial policies implemented in the CEECs are compared in the study, with special emphasis on tools used in order to promote incoming foreign direct investment, technological development and the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. These elements of the industrial policy toolkit will keep their key role in most CEECs, albeit their industrial policies will gradually align themselves to the European mainstream.     

货币权力和国际货币体系的美元霸权

货币权力指各国在货币事务上独立决策并对其他国家实施影响的能力,包括自治力和影响力两个部分。由于中心国家的货币权力在国际货币体系的历史演变中越来越大,致使国际货币体系的不对称性日益显著。美元在牙买加体系中拥有空前的货币权力,这常被称为"美元霸权",美国次贷危机和国际金融海啸没有改变美元的霸权地位。     

行政事业单位货币资金舞弊与风险控制

2012年11月29日,财政部制定了《行政事业单位内部控制规范(试行)》(以下简称《规范》),自2014年1月1日起施行。该《规范》适用范围广,比较原则、抽象。本文基于案例分析基础,试图探索货币资金如何防范舞弊风险的具体操作,为建立健全单位货币资金内部控制提供一些参考。     

货币资金控制程序设计的实证研究

案例显示，银行服务的功能、结算凭证的传递、接触限制的程度、现金流量的规模等几个方面控制不当是造成货币资金控制程序失效的主要因素。但本质上可以从交易、确认、计量、保管、报告等环节以及控制环境等方面入手，设计货币资金控制程序。     

A framework for analyzing money stock control under the Monetary Control Act

This paper analyzes the money stock effects of the Monetary Control Act (MCA) under a nonborrowed reserve (NBR) operating procedure. Prior to the passage of the MCA, policy was conducted under an interest rate operating target where reserve requirement reforms such as those introduced by the MCA had little influence on money stock variability. Under an NBR procedure however, the structure of reserve requirements may have a significant impact on monetary control. Our analysis indicates that the relative improvement in monetary control greatly depends on the degree of tightness exercised by the Federal Reserve over total reserves in an MCA regime. The tighter the control, the more significant the estimated monetary control benefits of the MCA under an NBR procedure.     

信贷机制、货币乘数与货币政策有效性研究

本文在蒙代尔—弗莱明的分析框架下引入商业银行信贷机制,来考察固定汇率制下小型开放经济体货币政策的有效性问题,发现货币政策可以作为稳定经济的工具。文章指出,实行固定汇率制度的小型开放经济体,其货币政策具有一定的独立性,可以对实际产出产生一定的作用;不同的货币政策工具对实际产出发生作用的传导机制不同,从而导致效果不同,因此货币当局在对宏观经济进行调节时必须选择适当的货币政策工具。     

Regional and global spillovers and diversification opportunities in the GCC equity sectors

This paper examines the international diversification benefits of bloc-wide equity sectors in the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries by comparing alternative spillover models that encompass local, regional and global factors. Some GCC-wide equity sectors/subsectors are found to display segmentation from global markets during periods of high and extreme market volatility, and thus can serve as safe havens for international portfolio investors during such periods. The in- and out-of-sample portfolio analyses further suggest that supplementing global portfolios with positions in the GCC markets yields significant international diversification benefits, consistently offering much improved risk-adjusted returns across the alternative spillover models.