Analyst earnings forecast precision and local advantage: evidence from American depositary receipt firms

Prior research has documented a finding that local analysts provide more accurate earnings forecasts than nonlocal analysts in many settings. However, little is known about local and nonlocal analysts’ relative earnings forecast abilities for ADR stocks. In this study, we find that the local advantage disappears for ADR stocks and that nonlocal analysts in fact outperform local ones in this case. We investigate the source of this ‘local disadvantage’ and find evidence against hypotheses based on accounting standards and exchange rates. We document that the local advantage decreases with increased investor interest in foreign firms, consistent with our nonlocal investors’ interest hypothesis.     

Default contagion and systemic risk in loan guarantee networks

This paper studies systemic risk in the Chinese debt market stemming from inter‐corporate loan guarantees using field data from Zhejiang Province. We apply a weighted and directed network model to analyse the implications for default contagion and systemic risk under different stress testing scenarios. The empirical results indicate that the topology of the loan guarantee network is close to a ‘scale‐free’ structure, which is known to be robust against accidental failures but vulnerable to coordinated attacks. Hence, the network is able to cope with idiosyncratic shocks resulting from single company failures, but can easily suffer from more widespread contagion if a group of systemically important companies are hit by a targeted shock. We further demonstrate that within our sample of small and medium‐sized enterprise (SME) companies, increasing leverage reduces network stability and exacerbates the effects of contagion. More lenient bank lending policies increase the survival rate of sample companies and thereby reduce the losses from default contagion.     

我国商业银行贷款集中度的测算及效应分析

近年来,商业银行信贷集中问题逐渐显现,正确认识信贷集中度及其影响对我国经济和金融业的稳定具有重要意义。本文用行业集中度、地区集中度、客户集中度三个指标来衡量我国商业银行的贷款集中度,以15家上市银行为研究样本进行了测算,在此基础上,将其分为三组同质同类银行,采用时间序列截面数据分别建立回归模型,考察了各组同质同类银行的贷款集中度对收益及风险的影响。     

消费金融公司、贷款准备金政策与总需求结构调整

消费金融公司的设立将有利于刺激居民消费,拉动内需。但是,在利率非市场化条件下,这也带来新的货币政策调控问题:中央银行如何对消费金融公司调控来实现政策目标。存款准备金政策对不吸收公众存款而发放无抵押担保的信用贷款的消费金融公司将无用武之地,而以贷款准备金政策(对贷款征收法定准备金)为工具的货币政策调控框架将会大展身手。文章构建了贷款准备金政策调控框架并用以分析其对需求结构的调节效应。     

社会融资总量与金融宏观调控新目标

社会融资总量是一定时期内实体经济从金融体系获得的全部资金总额,是反映金融业对实体经济资金支持的总量指标。目前,中国人民银行已经启动了对社会融资总量的统计监测工作,并致力于将其作为货币政策新的中介目标。社会融资总量包括信贷融资、证券融资、保险融资、其他融资等多种形式。加强对社会融资总量的统计、监测和调控,能够全面反映整个社会的流动性状况,有利于推进宏观审慎管理。     

稳健货币政策下中小企业贷款问题研究——以辽宁省辽阳市为例

稳健的货币政策下,金融机构的信贷投放数量必将受到影响。在这种背景下,如何让有限的资金更有效的流向中小企业,解决中小企业融资难的困境,就成为了一个重要的问题。文章以辽阳市为研究范围,调查研究了金融机构在为中小企业提供信贷支持方面所取得的成效及问题,并针对问题提出了相关的对策建议,以期更好的发挥金融机构对中小企业的信贷支持作用。     

准备金率和资本充足率影响商业银行贷款规模的机制分析

货币银行传统理论认为:货币当局以准备金率控制贷款规模,以资本充足率控制贷款风险。本文从分析准备金与资本充足率对贷款规模的约束机制入手,引入银行资产负债表模型,证明银行贷款规模主要受资本充足率影响。研究结论是:准备金率对贷款规模的控制作用已经弱化,资本充足率对贷款规模的控制作用趋强。     

农民工返乡创业收益影响因素研究

农民工返乡创业是近年来的研究热点。通过对湖南省和甘肃省的实地调查,获得了真实数据,利用Logistic模型实证研究返乡农民工的创业收益的影响因素,得出：湖南省返乡农民工的创业收益主要受资金投入、外出年限和受教育程度因素的影响;甘肃省返乡农民工创业收益主要受人力资本投入、资金投入以及外出年限因素的影响。由此提出促进农民工返乡创业、提高返乡农民工创业收益的相关政策建议。     

小额贷款公司经营风险及防范

近年来,小额贷款公司迅速发展,已成为金融体系的重要组成部分,成为民间资本进入金融领域的一条重要通道。但是,蜂拥而起的小额贷款公司在发展中却出现了良莠不齐。本文详细地分析了目前小额贷款公司面临的经营风险,并提出针对性的防范对策。     

On the role of Islamic and conventional banks in the monetary policy transmission in Malaysia: Do size and liquidity matter?

This paper empirically investigates the impact of monetary policy on the credit supply of Islamic versus conventional banks of Malaysia using an unbalanced panel dataset over the period 2005-2016. While estimating the effects of three alternative measures of monetary policy on banks' credit supply, we include several bank-specific and macroeconomic variables in the specification as control variables. We provide strong evidence on the existence of the credit channel of monetary policy transmission mechanism in Malaysia. Yet, we show that Islamic banks respond considerably less to changes in monetary policy instruments as compared to their conventional counterparts. We also find that the monetary policy measures affect small-sized banks and less-liquid banks more as compared to large-sized and more-liquid banks. Our findings suggest that for an effective monetary policy, there is a vital need to consider the nature of Islamic banking while devising any monetary policy instruments to manage credit supply in the economy.