Impact of exchange rate movements on exports: An analysis of Indian non-financial sector firms

We explore the real effective exchange rate (REER) effects on the share of exports of Indian non-financial sector firms for the period 2000–2010. Our empirical analysis reveals that, on average, there has been a strong and significant negative impact from currency appreciation and currency volatility on Indian firms' export shares. Labor costs are found to intensify the exchange rate effects on trade. Further, there is evidence that the Indian firms considered here respond asymmetrically to exchange rates. For instance, the REER change effect is more likely to be driven by a negative appreciation effect than a depreciation effect. Also, Indian firms that have smaller export shares tend to have a stronger response to both REER change and volatility. Compared with those exporting goods, firms that export services are more affected by exchange rate fluctuations. The findings, especially those on asymmetric responses, have important policy implications.     

On firm-level,industry-level,and aggregate employment fluctuations

Employment fluctuations are examined, at different levels of aggregation, in a model with firm-specific hiring decisions due to search frictions and sticky pricing. The results indicate that firm-level employment dispersion rises with higher price stickiness and higher demand elasticity, whereas it falls with more convexity of search costs and with a higher labor supply elasticity. Industry-level employment is more volatile and less procyclical than aggregate employment, and a larger industry size reduces volatility and raises co-movement with output. The calibrated model is able to match the volatility, autocorrelation and cyclical correlation of US industry-level employment when incorporating firm-specific technology shocks.     

Fluctuations in convex models of endogenous growth, II: Business cycle properties

Using ideas from the endogenous growth literature, we present a model of the endogenous determination of productivity growth based on individual worker decisions about human capital investment. We calibrate a version of the model to match long run growth facts from the US and study the business cycle properties of this model. This approach offers improvements along several dimensions over standard exogenous growth methodologies. Most importantly, our stochastic endogenous growth model generates much greater serial correlation in output growth and labor supply volatility relative to its real business cycle counterpart. We conclude that using the extra discipline of reproducing the trend productivity growth features of the data endogenously constitutes an important missing component from the real business cycle approach.     

我国上市公司高管犯罪公告的市场反应研究

为了研究我国上市公司高管犯罪的经济后果,本文通过收集1998～2010年我国A股市场63个上市公司高管涉案犯罪的公告,将总体样本分为在职公告样本和离职公告样本,运用事件研究法,从实证的角度分析了上市公司高管犯罪公告的市场反应,通过分析事件窗口期[t-5,t+5]的11个交易日内个股的非正常收益,通过单样本均值t检验、配对样本t检验等显著性检验,发现高管犯罪公告当日产生了负的显著性非正常收益,并且在t和t+1日两天的非正常收益率存在显著性差异。     

机构投资者持股特征对IPOs长期绩效影响的实证研究

文章从机构投资者持股规模、持股集中度、持股稳定性三个方面归纳不同类型机构投资者持股特征,采用Log-it回归检验机构投资者持股特征对上市后股票购买并持有异常回报率(BHAR),即IPOs长期绩效的影响。实证结果验证了机构投资者持股比例越高、持股稳定性越强,股票上市后的长期绩效越好;而持股比例低、持股集中度高、持股稳定性差的机构投资者也导致了股票长期表现较差。积极型机构投资者对股票长期绩效具有正面的影响。因此,引入积极型机构投资者符合当前我国股票市场深化改革的目标。     

Analysis on the Hero’s Abnormal Psychology in The tell-tale heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is one of the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe's, who was a master of the horror tale in American. The hero in this story is always afraid of the eyes of an old man. He is extreme anxiety under the eyes, for avoiding this anxiety, he kills the old man. This paper is to analyze the hero's abnormal psychology.     

中国企业对外并购短期财富绩效损益实证研究

以2001～2009年我国上市公司发生的对外并购事件为样本,首先运用累积超常收益法度量收购方中国企业对外并购的短期财富绩效.研究显示:中国企业在海外并购中存在负的短期财富效应,其次,将多个动因理论引入到并购绩效的研究中,对这些企业的财富绩效显著为负的现象进行了实证分析.通过累积超额收益对各种并购动因的代理财务变量做横截面多元回归,结果发现,自由现金流量假说、狂妄假说可以部分解释中国企业财富损失的原因;政府关联假说也具有一定的解释力,但是大股东控制假说和报表重组假说虽然系数为负,却不显著.     

Tactical Asset Allocation and Stock Issuance in the Korean Stock Market

Stock issuance predicts future stock returns in the Korean market. This creates profitable trading opportunities. Abnormal returns exist in the zero-cost portfolio that short the firms issuing large numbers of shares and longs those issuing small numbers of shares. Their average abnormal return is 12 percent per annum, which is highly significant even after controlling for market, size, value, and momentum factors as well as transaction costs. The authors suggest the possibility of fixed costs in equity market timing. Only the sizable benefit from market timing over fixed costs motivates firms to increase net equity shares.     

存货购销中最优期权合约交易量研究

在分析利用期权合约规避价格波动风险的原理的基础上,分别给出存货购销两个环节中可以运用的期权策略,然后利用均值方差模型计算使投资组合达到效用最大化时所对应的最优期权合约交易量及其对经营利润的影响,研究发现：在存货采购环节,企业可以通过购入看涨期权、购入看涨期权同时售出看跌期权两种策略控制采购价格波动的风险,在存货销售环节,企业可以通过购入看跌期权、同时购入看跌期权并售出看涨期权两种策略来稳定销售利润;从最优期权合约交易量及其对企业经营利润的影响来看,期权工具在控制存货采购价格、稳定销售利润中可以发挥良好作用。