Financial Statement Complexity and Meeting Analysts’ Expectations

We examine whether firms with greater financial statement complexity are more likely to meet or beat analysts’ earnings expectations. We proxy for financial statement complexity using the firm's industry and year adjusted accounting policy disclosure length. Firms with more complex financial statements are more likely to just beat expectations than just miss expectations. Firms with complex financial statements appear to use expectations management to beat expectations, but do not use earnings management. Corroborating these findings, we find analysts rely more on management guidance for more complex firms. Firms with complex financial statements are also more likely to have analysts exclude items from actual “street earnings,” but tests suggest this strategy is not specifically used by complex firms to beat expectations. The effect we document is specific to analyst forecasts and not to other alternative benchmarks.     

Financial Deepening and Economic Growth Linkages: A Panel Data Analysis

The paper examines whether a long-run relationship between financial development and economic growth exists employing panel integration and cointegration techniques for a dynamic heterogeneous panel of 15 OECD and 50 non-OECD countries over the period 1975–2000. Three different measures of financial deepening are used to capture the variety of different channels through which financial development can affect growth. Our findings support the existence of a single long-run equilibrium relation between financial deepening, economic growth and a set of control variables. Further, the evidence points to a bi-directional causality between financial deepening and growth. JEL no. O11, O16, C33     

金融泡沫化:理论及基于中国的实证分析

金融自身的泡沫化问题作为引发金融危机的一个重要方面,正成为金融体系乃至整个经济体系健康发展的重大威胁。这篇论文以中国金融泡沫化问题为研究对象,在剖析金融泡沫化成因的基础上,重点对我国金融体系的泡沫化水平进行了实证分析。文章分别从我国银行体系、股票市场和外汇市场选取了12项经济指标,通过采用编制泡沫化指数的方法对1992-2001年十年间我国金融泡沫化水平的相对变动进行了量化分析。最后,文章还根据实证分析的结果对如何有效地控制我国金融体系的泡沫化水平提出了政策建议。     

全球金融危机下的贸易保护主义——理论与实证分析

本文分析了全球金融危机下贸易保护主义的未来发展趋势以及实施的影响因素。通过运用非期望效用的进化博弈理论,指出全球金融危机下,国家是有限理性的,从世界整体看,合作和自由是最终的趋势;从具体各国来看,贸易保护主义的实施不仅仅由实施政策的收益和损失决定,与各国对政策决策权重的判断和程度也有密切的关系。通过美国对中国反倾销的实证分析证明了上述观点,并发现各因素与贸易保护主义实施的可能性均有正的相关性,其中收支函数的影响最大,两国之间的交互作用影响最小。在此基础上,本文提出了中国应对贸易保护主义的对策。     

金融开放、金融发展与经济增长：数据分析及政策启示

本文利用一个涵盖130个国家和地区、20世纪90年代后半期的数据集来验证如下命题：金融开放促进金融发展并推动经济增长。研究表明,上述因果链具有显著性、重要性和稳健性。此外,一国金融开放与该国法律体制之间存在辩证关系,一方面,那些法律体制不完善的国家可以通过金融开放来促进本国市场化进程与经济发展;但另一方面,金融开放步伐还要受制于一国法律体制的完善程度,这在应对国际金融危机的今天尤为重要。     

金融市场发展与贸易竞争力:基于中国各行业的面板数据分析

本文运用中国2001～2006年30余个行业的数据,通过考虑行业的外部金融依存度,并区分不同行业的技术含量,考察了中国金融市场发展与不同行业贸易竞争力的关系。分析指出,行业的外部金融依赖是连接金融市场发展与国际贸易的关键环节,不同行业的技术密集度不同,行业的外部金融依赖程度也存在差异,因而金融市场的发展对不同行业的比较优势存在不同的影响。在对中国的实证研究中,主要区分了金融市场发展的规模、效率和结构对贸易竞争力的差异性影响,以及不同技术含量产品的贸易竞争力受金融市场发展影响的差异性。实证分析结果表明,中国的金融市场发展的确影响了贸易竞争力,但总量、效率指标的影响程度有所差异。     

金融发展与经济增长文献综述

本文全面介绍了金融发展与经济增长理论研究近来的发展。从不同的角度分析该项研究。在理论层面上将其分成了三大体系 ,分别是 :金融结构论、金融功能论和金融法权论 ;在研究方法层面也进行了回顾与总结 ,给予了相应的评价。并提出了未来可能出现的研究趋势和方向     

上海和香港建设国际金融中心的比较分析

上海和香港建设国际金融中心既取决于自身的经济金融实力,也有赖于经济腹地的发展水平.本文从大珠三角和长三角两大城市群的视角对香港和上海进行比较分析,发现香港在总部经济集聚效应、金融市场国际化程度、地方金融机构实力等方面具有明显优势,上海则在经济发展腹地、城市群重点企业和县域经济发展均衡程度等方面具有潜在的竞争优势.未来上海和香港在国际金融市场的影响力,取决于各自所在城市群的一体化发展水平以及金融机构和重点企业的国际竞争力.     

Opinions on the Tax Deductibility of Mortgages and the Consensus Effect

Summary We present the results of a survey-experiment – using a representative sample of the Dutch population – in which we relate respondents’ opinion about a restriction of the tax deductibility of mortgages to their estimates about other people’s opinions. We find a strong consensus effect; meaning that respondents’ estimates of others’ opinions are related to their own opinion. Furthermore, we find that the size of the effect is not affected by the ambiguity of the question posed. The provision of arguments pro and contra the tax provision and monetary incentives for accuracy reduce the consensus effect, but only so in conjunction. Finally, we find that house owners display a significantly stronger consensus effect. Our results suggest that both cognitive and motivational factors are responsible for the consensus effect. Aside from the consensus effect, our survey gives interesting insights into people’s opinion on tax deductibility of mortgages. A majority consider a general restriction to be unfair, but a proposal to restrict only mortgages as of a certain size meets with much more approval. We thank Marcel Das and Corrie Vis of CentERdata for their excellent support in conducting the survey-experiment and two referees of this journal and Dirk Engelmann for helpful comments. Financial support from the Faculty of Economics and Business administration is gratefully acknowledged.     

Nanotechnology and the new technological revolution: Expectations and reality

This paper reviews the existing mechanisms of innovative development in the world economy focusing on emerging technologies markets evolution on the example of nanotechnology. The question has been raised of whether nanotechnologies can provide the core of the new technological revolution, and whether these prospects exist for NBIC convergence. In this connection the development of the global market for nano-enabled products following the 2007–2009 crisis and the reliability of the related development forecasts have been assessed. Particular attention has been paid to peculiarities of nanoenabled product market structure and the impact of stagnating R&D costs in the field of nanotechnology.     

人民币汇率、汇率预期与短期跨境资本流动：基于MS-VAR模型的实证分析

在不同的宏观经济背景下,汇率和跨境资本流动之间的关系可能存在差异。文章利用MS-VAR模型对1999～2020年间不同经济区制下人民币汇率、汇率预期和跨境短期资本流动之间的联动机制进行了实证分析。文章将经济状态划分为区制1和区制2两个不同区制,两个区制间的转换节点主要位于国内重要汇改及2008年美国次贷危机等时点附近。相比于区制1,区制2下经济具有更大的波动性且经济状态的惯性更强。另外,在区制2下跨境短期资本流动冲击容易带来人民币汇率和汇率预期的同向变化,后者又会对跨境资本流动产生正向反馈。基于这些分析结论,文章对中国的外汇和资本账户管理提出了政策建议。