The side effects of quantitative easing: Evidence from the UK bond market

We examine the returns to UK government bonds before, during and between the phases of quantitative easing to identify the side effects for the market itself. We show that the onset of QE led to a sustained reduction in the costs of trading and removed some return regularities. However, controlling for a wide range of market activity, including issuance and QE announcements, we find evidence that investors could have earned excess returns after costs by trading in response to the purchase auction calendar. Drawing on economic theory, we explore the implications of these findings for both the efficiency of the market and the costs of government debt management in both the short and long run.     

Effects of Eurobonds: A stochastic sovereign debt sustainability analysis for Portugal,Ireland and Greece

This paper assesses the impact of Eurobonds on sovereign debt dynamics for selected European member states (Greece, Ireland and Portugal). For each member state, we produce sovereign debt fan charts of (i) a baseline scenario (no Eurobonds) and (ii) a Full-Fledged Eurobond introduction. The key building blocks of our methodology are (i) a debt framework (which embeds the traditional recursive debt equation), (ii) a vector autoregressive model to take into account and parametrise macroeconomic uncertainty and (iii) a fiscal reaction function. Conditional on the absence of moral hazard, we find Eurobonds to be a good instrument to absorb macroeconomic shocks and to diminish uncertainty over future debt forecasts; for Ireland and Portugal, we find debt to be 20 percentage points lower than under our baseline scenario, by 2020.     

完善我国地方政府债券发行主体制度之构想

我国地方政府债券的发行主体制度方面存在一些问题。在总结国外有关有益经验基础上,结合我国现实背景,对我国地方政府债券主体制度设计提出了构想。按照循序渐进的原则,我国应采取两步走战略,分别围绕主体范围、主体资格等方面,通过修改《预算法》等法律法规和制定《地方政府债券法》,逐步完善我国地方政府债券的主体制度。     

巨灾债券运行效应问题研究

在巨灾风险证券化产品中,巨灾债券交易最为活跃,也最具代表性,越来越多的保险公司、再保险公司及大型企业倾向于发行巨灾债券来转移、分散巨灾风险。作为功能上与再保险基本相似的新型风险管理工具,巨灾债券具有传统再保险不可比拟的优势。它不仅能使保险市场实现帕累托改进,对证券市场、国家财政也会产生深远的影响。最后,本文分析了巨灾债券在我国的发展前景。     

试论中国国债的创新与发展

中国国债在国民经济发展中发挥了重要作用,为社会主义经济建设聚集了大量资金,为全面实施财政政策和货币政策提供了保证,应从改变国债利率、增加国债品种及优化国债期限结构等方面发展中国国债市场。     

当前我国公债政策方向选择

金融危机已经对中国经济以及全球经济的发展造成了极大负面影响。扩内需、保增长已成为当前我国经济的主导方针。作为宏观调控重要手段的公债政策,对促进经济增长有着非常重要的理论和实践意义。本文分析了公债政策对我国经济的影响,提出了对公债政策、公债规模选择和投资方向选择等方面的一些建议。     

投融资平台维度下保障房建设的资金解困之策

在我国保障房建设面临局势紧迫、任务繁重、资金缺口大的形势下,国家允许地方政府投融资平台介入保障房的建设,这对保障房的建设无疑开启了新的纪元.文章在回顾了我国保障房建设历史的基础上,分析其建设过程中遇到的融资困境,探讨在地方政府投融资平台维度下通过发行保障性房债、开发性金融贷款、保障房信托基金(REITs)三种方式解决保障房建设资金短板问题的适宜性和可行性,并阐述了各种方法在实行过程中的或有风险及其防范.     

加大生态移民力度 切实保护西部生态环境

我国西部地区生态环境呈加速恶化势态。实施生态移民 ,是保护西部生态环境和全体国民及其后代受益的一大善事。以债券方式筹资在粮足水丰的东北平原和长江中下游平原建设生态移民新村和小城镇 ,将西部生态超载人口迁入 ,从事养殖为主的多种经营活动 ,可以巩固退耕还林还草成果和促进各项林业生态工程顺利实施 ;收到开发、脱贫与生态环境保护兼顾的多重效益 ,也是合理分担保护西部生态环境成本的科学方法。     

An investigation of problem-solving support and relaxation motivations on e-WOM

As a consequence of greater computer-mediated consumer-to-consumer communication within the firm's marketing communications, there has been a growing need to understand these digital interactions more explicitly. That is, we still know little about the exact extrinsic and intrinsic motivations that drive electronic word-of-mouth. The purpose of the paper is to better understand why members within community-based websites develop a need to exchange and/or develop a social bond within the community. Questionnaire data were gathered from 147 members of an online beauty forum in Australia. The findings highlight that those members seeking problem-solving support in combination with elements of relaxation will be more inclined to exchange with other community members and develop a social bond within that community. Marketing managers can capitalise these findings by strengthening problem-solving support systems and creating environments where community members can also relax and unwind to increase the exchange between members and also increase the social bonds within the community.     

Do investors in Green Bond market pay a premium? Global evidence

We examine the pricing difference of Green Bonds (GB) and conventional bonds (CBs) in capital markets worldwide. Credit spread is used to observe whether investors would like to pay a premium for GBs over CBs. This study uses panel data regression with hybrid model to analyse daily observations over the period 2016 to 2017. We employ Option-Adjusted spread (OAS) to measure the credit spreads of bonds while controlling for bond specific, macroeconomic and global factors that influence the spread. With the hybrid model used in the panel data analysis, we were able to capture the fixed-effects of variables in a random effect model. We find that GBs are traded at a premium of 63 basis points (BPS), compared with a comparable corporate bond issue. We find that the green label provides issuers an incentive to raise funds through issuing GBs while providing investors an opportunity to diversify their investments returns. Our findings provide several implications to the major stakeholders driving the GB market to scale up the market to finance the required level of global green investment needs. We stress an urgent need to support the growth of the GB market to achieve sustainable development through mitigating climate change challenges.

Abbreviation GB: Green Bond; CB: Conventional Bond; YS: Yield Spread; BPS: Basis Points; OAS: Option-Adjusted Spread; PCSE: Panels Corrected Standard Errors; CPI: Consumer Price Index; GBPs: Green Bond Principles; CBS: Climate Bond Standard