我国上市公司可转换债券融资研究——基于契约设计的视角

作为一种兼具股性和债性的混合型融资工具,可转债的契约条款设计可使其更偏向于股性或债性,本文通过对我国上市公司2002-2008年发行的可转债的主要条款,如发行期限、票面利率、转股期、转股价格、转股溢价率、赎回条款、回售条款、特别向下修正条款等进行分析,发现绝大多数可转债契约设计更偏向于股性,这既有发行人的主观原因,也有监管当局制度约束的客观原因。     

In the wake of austerity: social impact bonds and the financialisation of the welfare state in Britain

This paper provides an analysis of the financialisation of the British welfare state. In a continuation of neo-liberal privatisation and labour market activation, the financialised welfare state pursues a policy of welfare retrenchment, while engaging in forms of social engineering aimed at producing self-responsibilised individuals and communities who are financially literate, ‘investment-ready’ and economically productive. New financial instruments such as social impact bonds are deployed to these ends, both to ‘solve social problems’ and enable cost saving. Through the use of such financial instruments, the implementation of regulatory infrastructures and tax incentives, the financialised welfare state becomes a vehicle for the transfer of wealth from the public to private investors, while subjecting the domain of social policy to the vicissitudes of global financial markets. This paper offers a critique of these developments, situating the case of Britain within the broader global context and with regard to the implications for understanding the current political economy of the welfare state.     

Optimal policies of call with notice period requirement

When an American warrant or a convertible bond is called by its issuer, the holder is usually given a notice period to decide whether to sell the derivative back to the issuer at the call price or to exercise the conversion right. Several earlier papers have shown that such notice period requirement may substantially affect the optimal call policy adopted by the issuer. In this paper, we perform theoretical studies on the impact of the notice period requirement on issuer’s optimal call policy for American warrants and convertible bonds. We also examine how the optimal call policy of the issuer interacts with holder’s optimal conversion policy.     

A note on pricing interest rate derivatives when forward LIBOR rates are lognormal

We derive the closed form pricing formulae for contracts written on zero coupon bonds for the lognormal forward LIBOR rates. The method is purely probabilistic in contrast with the earlier results obtained by Miltersen et al. (1997).     

地方政府债务融资管理的现状、问题与对策

随着近年来对财政风险的日益关注，地方政府的债务融资风险也受到了人们越来越多的重视，笔者认为，我国现行地方政府债务融资管理制度所存在的种种缺陷，是造成这一风险加剧的重要因素之一，必须及时加以规范和完善。     

建立地方公债制度推进西部经济发展

资金供给不足是制约西部经济发展的“瓶颈”,在中央财政投入有限、银行资金不愿涉足、地方财政困难的情况下,通过发行地方公债来筹措建设资金,不失为一种理想的选择。     

The Relationship Between Risk and Maturity In A Stochastic Setting

This paper explores the interest rate sensitivity of the prices of bonds and other securities when the instantaneous interest rate follows a Markov process. We show that whenever the interest rate describes a diffusion process the sensitivity of zero-coupon bonds increases with maturity. More generally, we characterize the risk-maturity relationship for contingent claims. This investigation yields a new property of option prices in the case where the underlying security price is a diffusion.     

Bounds for option prices and expected payoffs

This article sharpens Lo's upper bounds for option prices using an alternative approach with the assumption that the underlying asset price is continuously distributed. The increased sharpness is obtained using additional information about the distribution of the underlying assets. It is shown in this article that a large portion of Lo's upper bounds is the maximum of our bounds over all possible distributions.     

Determinants of spreads on new high yield bonds of shipping companies

This paper investigates determinants of pricing of new high yield bond offerings of shipping companies. New high yield bond offerings issued by shipping companies in the US market, during the period 1993–1998, are used in the investigation. The empirical results suggest that credit rating is the major determinant of the price spread of the bond offerings. Financial leverage and shipping market conditions also account for a significant part of the price variability.     

可转债转股模型及实证研究

本文分析了国内外对可转债定价的研究情况,总结我国可转债市场的发展。针对可转债的重 要属性转股率,建立转股率决定模型,重点分析了转股率与转股溢价率之间的关系。