Volatility of capital flows and financial liberalization: Do specific flows respond differently?

This paper examines the volatility of capital flows following the liberalization of financial markets. Utilizing a panel data set of overlapping data, the paper focuses on the response of foreign direct investment, portfolio flows, and other debt flows to financial liberalization. The financial liberalization variable comes from the chronology and index developed by Kaminsky and Schmukler [Kaminsky, G.L. and Schmukler, S.L., 2003, Short-run pain, long-run gain: The effects of financial liberalization, IMF Working Paper WP/03/34.]. Different types of capital flows are found to respond differently to financial liberalization. Surprisingly, portfolio flows appear to show little response to capital liberalization while foreign direct investment flows show significant increases in volatility, particularly for the emerging markets considered.     

All Myth and Ceremony? Examining the Causes and Logic of the Mission Shift in Microfinance from Microenterprise Credit to Financial Inclusion

This contribution assesses the shift in the mission of microfinance from providing small loans for entrepreneurship to the broader agenda of financial inclusion. Three leading organisations' publications inform a discourse analysis, which allows the strategic shift to be analysed using two theoretical frames from organisational sociology: instrumental rationalism and sociological institutionalism. The proclaimed shift in strategy is found to consist less of rational innovation towards the aim of poverty alleviation than of “myth and ceremony” for the sake of organisational self-preservation.     

黑龙江省金融风险隐患与法律对策研究——以黑龙江商业银行不良资产居高难题为切入点

商业银行不良资产居高问题长期以来一直是困扰我省经济发展的难题,也是我省在东北老工业基地改造建设中急需解决的主要金融风险.用经济学和法学的分析方法,以不良贷款作为出发点,可以看出法制健全与金融风险防范之间的重要关联性,便于有针对性地选取社会信用、银行内部法人治理结构、业务创新、退出等机制,也有利于分析探讨如何以法律规范的手段有效地解决我省不良资产居高难题.     

金融发展加剧了中国收入不平等吗?——基于门槛回归模型的证据

作为现代经济的核心变量,金融发展的收入分配效应是宏观经济领域的一个新兴议题。文章系统梳理了国内外研究文献,总结金融发展影响收入不平等的传导机制,并利用中国1996-2009年省际面板数据和Hansen(1999)的门槛模型,对金融发展的收入分配效应进行了估计。研究结果表明,在样本期间内金融发展显著加剧了中国收入不平等,而且金融发展的收入分配效应表现出鲜明的门槛特征,跨越特定门槛值省区的金融发展对收入不平等的影响更大。     

强化提升电力企业资金全过程管理的能力

随着市场经济的迅速发展,我国的电力企业市场也在突飞猛进地发展,并对于企业效益的提升起着至关重要的作用。与此同时,也存在着相应问题,需要合理运用良好管理方法,做好企业的资金管理与控制,以此来迎合这新时代背景下竞争激烈的电力市场,有效实现资金内部控制,减少资金使用的随意性。因此,加强资金管控已成为许多企业平稳、顺利转型的关健。基于此,就运用什么方法,如何运用这些方法进行细致讲解,提出相关的方法策略及改善建议。     

系统重要性金融机构危机监管制度：历史与未来方向

系统重要性金融机构危机监管制度是后金融危机时代国际金融监管领域的重要理论和实践问题。探讨了系统重要性金融机构危机监管制度的重要性,在此基础上,梳理了系统重要性金融机构危机监管制度路径的历史演变,主要包括存款保险制度与最后贷款人机制。最后,讨论了“太大而不能倒”危机管理理念的缺陷,指出完善系统重要性金融机构危机监管制度的紧迫性及其最新发展趋势。     

Financial and legislative aspects of drug development of orphan diseases on the European market – a systematic review

According to the European Commission, medical products for orphan diseases are those which affect fewer than five persons out of every 10 000. Producers are reluctant to develop these drugs under the common market conditions because the demand for these drugs does not guarantee return on investments into research and development of such products. Patients with orphan diseases, however, have the same rights for treatment as any other patient. To stimulate the research and development of drugs for orphan diseases, the governmental offices introduce various incentives for health and biotechnological industry. This started in the USA already in 1983 by passing a special law. Japan introduced this law in 1993 and Australia in 1997. Europe followed in 1999 by introducing common policy for all member states.

The aim of this article is to specify current economic and legislative conditions in European countries and compare them with the legislation and approaches of the countries which started this initiative, i.e. USA, Japan, Australia or Singapore. In addition, the treatment costs of orphan diseases are specified and prospects of this field are evaluated.     

中国需要选择市场主导型金融体系吗

本文对银行主导型金融体系与市场主导型金融体系促进经济增长优劣进行比较的实证文献进行综述。总结出四种现点及理论支持。基于内生增长模型的对银行主导金融体系与市场主导金融体系对经济增长的促进作用进行比较分析,得出的姑论是两种金融体系在促进经济增长上没有明显的优劣之分,但银行主导型金融体系在某些方面存在优势。因而作者认为目前中国银行主导型金融体系在促进经济增长上是有效的,强行将中介主导型金融体系转变为市场主导型金融体系的政策可能是误导的。     

国际工程合同的评析与借鉴

国际工程合同为我们提供了建造合同、设计和建造合同、EPC/交钥匙合同等多种可供选择的工程承包模式,探讨国际工程合同的优势和缺陷,明确其应用范围,对于克服我国工程承包合同存在的内容简单;操作性不强等问题有积极的意义。     

International sanctions’ impact on energy efficiency in target states

This paper investigates the impact of international sanctions on energy efficiency by employing the panel fixed effect as well as average marginal effect from the Tobit model via data on 30 sanctioned states over the period 1996–2015 with international sanctions including unilateral, plurilateral, U.S., EU, UN, economic, and non-economic cases. Overall, we find that the imposition of unilateral sanctions leads to a 0.067% decrease in energy efficiency, but that of plurilateral sanctions positively contribute to energy efficiency in the case of the full sample of countries. Moreover, the imposition of UN sanctions has a greater decrease on energy efficiency in the target states than the 0.042% reduction of energy efficiency when the sanctionist is the U.S. For robustness, empirical results indicate that the imposition of plurilateral sanctions results in a drop of energy efficiency in Islamic countries, but an increase in non-Islamic countries, while there are also negative shocks induced by the imposition of EU sanctions on energy efficiency in Asian countries, but not for non-Asian countries. We also consider endogenous problems and dynamic specification by using indicator variables and System GMM. In summary, our empirical findings provide policy suggestions for those sanctioned countries about how to maintain energy efficiency when facing international sanctions.