Labour Market Adjustments to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries

This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on labour market adjustments to exchange rate movements in Canadian manufacturing industries. Controlling for endogeneity using generalized method of moments estimation, it is found that during the 1981–1997 period, exchange movements have a substantial impact on labour input and that this impact has grown over time as the manufacturing industries have become more exposed to trade. In contrast, the exchange rate effect on real wages is estimated to be virtually zero for all manufacturing industries.

Wal-Mart’s Impact on Local Revenue and Expenditure Instruments in Ohio, 1988–2003

This research estimates fiscal impacts of Wal-Mart in Ohio from 1985 through 2003. Using a panel of counties, and accounting for spatial autocorrelation in an instrumental variable model I estimate impact of Wal-Mart and Super-Centers on selected revenues and transfer payments. Among the findings is that the presence of a Wal-Mart increases local commercial property tax assessments resulting in collection increases of between $350,000 and $1.3 million. There is also an 18–43% reduction in per capita EITC claims in a county. However, Medicaid expenditures experience growth which amount to roughly 16 additional cases attributable to a single Wal-Mart. The magnitude and statistical certainty of these findings, suggests that local fiscal intervention, either through incentives or a “Wal-Mart Tax” is unwarranted.

Volatility Relationship between Crude Oil and Petroleum Products

This paper utilizes calculated historical volatility and GARCH models to compare the historical price volatility behavior of crude oil, motor gasoline and heating oil in U.S. markets since 1990. We incorporate a shift variable in the GARCH/TARCH models to capture the response of price volatility to a change in OPEC’s pricing behavior. This study has three major conclusions. First, there was an increase in volatility as a result of a structural shift to higher crude oil prices after April 1999. Second, volatility shocks from current news are not important since GARCH effects dominate ARCH effects in the variance equation. Third, persistence of volatility in all commodity markets is quite transitory, with half-lives normally being a few weeks.

Saving–investment Correlations in Response to Monetary Policy Shocks: New Insights into the Feldstein–Horioka Puzzle?

In this paper, it is argued that the observed high positive correlation between national savings and investment which is found in the data can in part be explained by shocks to monetary policy. This hypothesis, which is established by reviewing some empirical findings, is tested in a two-country DSGE-model framework in the tradition of the New Open Economy Macroeconomics. The simulation results obtained support the idea that shocks to monetary policy might contribute to the explanation of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle.

Connecting National Safety Nets: The Dialectics of the Basel II Contracting Process

Basel II consists of supervisory guidelines negotiated by representatives of central banks and national regulatory commissions that were members of the Basel committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). The BCBS is itself a regulatory response to globalization, which is connecting national safety nets in market-driven ways. A country’s financial safety net is a social contract established by short-lived agents for principals in long-lived economic sectors. Restraints placed on the authority of the BCBS members to contract for their principals by domestic politics explains: why Basel II authorizes individual countries to implement the agreement in markedly different ways; why US implementation of Basel II ran into so much doubt, controversy, and delay; and how the implementation debate set small and large banks and the Federal Reserve and other federal regulators against one another.

基于“博弈人”假设的民营企业员工招聘问题分析

随着民营企业的迅速发展,人力资源成了21世纪民营企业最重要的战略资源,而员工招聘是民营企业获取优秀人力资源的主要渠道。员工招聘过程是应聘者和企业双向选择的过程。本文基于"博弈人"假设,将招聘过程看成是一个招聘者与应聘者双方博弈的过程,并在内部招聘和外部招聘两种模式下,建立博弈模型,并探讨其博弈均衡情况,为民营企业的招聘工作提供决策参考。     

金融企业并购与分拆战略转换变快的趋向评析

金融企业实行了引人注目的全球大并购后,时隔不久又有了连续大规模的分拆行为,其间显示出并购与分拆变换节奏加快的趋向。金融企业此种举措的动因,可归结为实施金融创新、拓展经营边界、实施混业经营和实现"成长优先"的战略需要。而并购后由于战略提升的需要又实施分拆,以服务于其自身资源优化配置,集中核心竞争力,实现"素质优先"的战略目标。     

基于生物识别技术的智慧支付体系研究

近年来,随着信息技术的飞速发展,生物识别技术在支付领域的应用也在不断突破,互联网金融公司、商业银行纷纷将生物识别技术嵌入业务链,融入业务场景。鉴于人体生物特征的稳定性、唯一性和不易复制性,生物识别技术的应用为金融支付提供了更安全、快捷的途径,具有广阔的应用前景。本文分析了生物识别技术在支付领域应用的可行性及优势,对以生物识别技术为核心载体的智慧支付体系的建设进行了初步探索,以期为推动生物识别技术在支付领域应用、建设智慧型支付体系提供参考。     

宿迁市银行营业网点服务标准化的实践与探讨

银行营业网点服务标准化工作是提升金融服务水平、保护消费者权益和防范金融风险的重要手段之一,人民银行宿迁市中心支行认真贯彻实施《银行营业网点服务基本要求》国家标准,推动辖区内金融机构大力实施营业网点服务标准化国标认证工作。本文详细介绍了开展该项工作的现状与问题,并从思想、制度、组织、宣传、教育等角度提出相应对策。     

数字化转型如何影响企业韧性？ ——基于双元创新视角

数字化转型是促进企业韧性形成并塑造竞争优势的重要手段。通过以广东省、江苏省等地区的339家企业为研究样本,实证研究发现:数字化转型对企业韧性具有显著正向影响;其中,数字化转型分别对探索式创新和利用式创新具有积极促进作用;同时,双元创新对企业韧性具有显著正向影响。进一步地,企业通过探索式创新和利用式创新分别在数字化转型对企业韧性的影响中起部分中介作用。研究从双元创新视角揭示了数字化转型对企业韧性的作用机制,验证了数字化转型与企业韧性的关系,也为实施数字化转型的企业通过双元创新来提升企业韧性应对不确定性风险提供了理论指导。