The determinants and survival of reverse mergers vs IPOs

This study examines the motivation for using a reverse merger (RM) rather than an IPO to take a private firm public and analyzes the survival of RMs and IPOs in the aftermarket. Private firms using the RM technique are smaller, younger, and have poorer ex ante performance on average than those using IPOs. For private firms using RMs, 1.4% do not meet any listing requirements while all IPOs meet at least one requirement of the listing exchange. Forty-two percent of RMs are delisted compared with 27% of matched IPOs within 3 years of listing on an exchange.

净额支付清算系统中银行危机的传染过程与应对策略

随着各国商业银行通过银行间支付清算系统交易额的迅速增加,银行危机通过支付清算系统进行传染越来越受到世界各国政府的重视。本文研究了少数甚至是单个银行发生危机通过净额结算支付清算系统扩散而引起系统危机的过程和条件,分析了系统所能吸收的由银行危机而导致的最大违约资金量。最后,在本文分析的基础上,提出了我国政府为及时、有效地控制银行危机的传染过程应采取的对策和措施。     

美国联邦储备体系的性质、功能和治理结构

联储体系依据美国国会通过的法律成立,作为美国的中央银行行使包括制定和执行货币政策、监管金融机构、维护支付体系运行等公共职能,代表公共利益,具有公共机构性质。联储体系理事会属联邦机构性质;各联储行兼具联邦机构、公司和银行性质,但以联邦机构性质为主,公司色彩较淡,是银行的银行和政府的银行。     

竞争加剧背景下我国商业银行的股利分配策略

我国商业银行面临的竞争逐渐加剧。在这样的背景下,商业银行上市后,其股利分配具有非常强烈的信号传递效应,而且,商业银行的股利变动对其他银行的股价行为具有关联影响。另外,新上市银行的首次股利分配的时机选择可以表明银行质量的高低。为了争取在资本市场的竞争优势,我国商业银行上市后需要注重股利分配的信息传递效果,采取平稳的股利分配策略,新上市银行则需要尽快启动股利分配。     

经济政策变化是否影响了银行资产证券化发展?——基于经济政策不确定性的视角

以经济政策不确定性为主要特征的经济政策频繁变化将对银行产生不利冲击,并通过银行行为的变化推动资产证券化发展。文章以2011-2018年中国银行业数据为研究样本,基于经济政策不确定性对经济政策频繁变化进行衡量,充分识别经济政策不确定性与银行资产证券化发展的内在关系,以及相应的异质性特征。结果表明：（1）经济政策不确定性越大,银行发展资产证券化的动机越强;（2）影响机制检验发现,银行期限错配、风险承担及盈利水平的不利变化,是经济政策不确定性影响银行资产证券化发展的中介效应;（3）经济政策不确定性对银行资产证券化发展的促进作用,在非上市银行、城商行及农商行中更为显著。文章认为,鉴于银行发展资产证券化的目的在于应对外部环境及其对自身微观行为的不利冲击,监管部门应针对资产证券化的功能定位监管措施,并且尽量营造透明公平的环境,稳定银行机构对未来政策的预期,同时中小银行也要积极推动经营转型,主动增强适应宏观经济环境的能力。文章从经济政策不确定性这一宏观视角出发,拓展了银行资产证券化的研究维度,基于银行微观结构的变化深化了对经济政策变化及不确定性影响效应的认知。     

村镇银行设立、发起行特征与绩效——基于Heckman和2SLS模型的实证研究

选择2007—2016年我国发起行设立村镇银行的数量和注册资金金额数据,实证分 析了发起行的部分重要特征对设立村镇银行投资决策的影响,以及对其自身绩效影响的中介作 用。实证发现：发起行资产规模越大、同省市已有村镇银行数越多则越可能成立村镇银行,而 净资产收益率越高则发起设立村镇银行的可能性越小;农村商业银行或上市银行一旦决定发 起成立村镇银行,则倾向投资更多;村镇银行累计数量越多和注册资金总额越大,发起行的管 理成本越高,绩效水平越低,但发起行如为上市银行则削弱了上述作用。因此,发起行成立村 镇银行时偏好追求规模经济,而且短期内倾向于放弃绩效目标而响应贯彻国家发展普惠金融及 振兴乡村的战略。     

Unconventional monetary policy and the dollar–euro exchange rate: further evidence from event studies

New evidence is presented on the impact on the US dollar–euro (USD–EUR) exchange rate of the unconventional monetary policy conducted by the US Federal Reserve (FED) and the European Central Bank (ECB). To that end, we employ an event study approach using daily the USD–EUR exchange rate for the period from 2 January 2007 to 31 January 2015. Our results indicate that the announcement and subsequent implementation of such measures by the ECB would have caused in general an appreciation of the dollar, while those by the FED would have caused a depreciation of the dollar.     

我国上市城市商业银行经营绩效分析

上市城市商业银行是我国金融体系中重要的组成部分,要想在激烈的市场竞争中站稳脚跟,就必须提升效率和竞争力。本文选取了我国3家上市城市商业银行为研究对象,运用杜邦分析体系,从盈利能力、营运能力及偿债能力三个方面,对我国3家上市城市商业银行的经营绩效进行对比分析,找出影响其经营绩效的因素,并针对分析结果,提出相应的改进建议。     

The role of bankers in the U.S. syndicated loan market

I construct a novel dataset of individual bankers in the U.S. syndicated loan market to analyze the impact of bankers for the largest, most transparent borrowers. Bankers exhibit time-invariant preferences for specific loan characteristics, or styles. In addition, exploiting within-borrower variation in personal relationship strength from banker turnover, I find that stronger relationships lead to significantly lower interest rates. This effect is stronger if borrowers lack a credit rating or issue less frequent and shorter horizon management reports. Relationship loans are associated with fewer bankruptcies and fewer favorable modifications in renegotiations.     

Do negative interest rates affect bank risk-taking?

We offer early evidence on the impact of negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on banks’ risk-taking. Our primary result shows banks in NIRP-adopter countries reduce holdings of risky assets by around 10 percentage points following implementation of NIRP in comparison to banks in non-adopter countries. We augment this result by identifying NIRP’s impact on other aspects of banks’ risk-taking behaviour; NIRP is associated with reductions in banks’ loan growth and average loan price (by 3.7 percentage points and 59 basis points) and a rebalancing of asset portfolios towards safer assets. Secondly, we find the NIRP-effect is heterogeneous; post-NIRP risk-taking increases at strongly capitalised banks and at banks operating in less competitive markets that exploit market power to insulate net interest margins and profitability. Our robust empirical evidence supports the “de-leverage” hypothesis which suggests that banks acquire safer, liquid assets to bolster their capital positions rather than searching for value by acquiring riskier assets. We base our evidence on a sample of 2,584 banks from 33 OECD countries across 2012 to 2016, and from models that employ a difference-in-differences framework.