Optimal bank asset and liability management with financial futures

This paper presents a model for optimal bank asset and liability management with financial futures. This model is a multiperiod linear programming model based on Markowitz portfolio theory. Given the bank's initial position, its economic forecasts, and the constraints under which it operates, the model can help a bank's senior executives determine the current and expected future balance sheet composition and financial futures position which will minimize the bank's operating risks and which will meet the bank's expected profits goal with the minimum possible profits risk. By parametrically varying the expected profits goal, the model will generate the set of risk-return efficient decisions. Bankers need then examine only the set of efficient decisions to choose their optimal solution. A simplified example is used to illustrate the application of our model and to demonstrate that banks that use financial futures in asset and liability management can obtain better results than banks that do not use financial futures.     

银行间债券市场7天回购利率影响因素的实证分析

我国银行间债券市场7天回购交易品种成交量大、交易活跃、参与机构多，其回购利率R07D也成为货币市场短期利率的重要基准。本文从资金面和政策面两个角度出发选取了若干R07D利率的影响因素，对从2001年1月至2006年6月的数据，运用协整、格兰杰因果检验、回归等计量方法进行实证分析，结果显示：央行票据发行利率、超额准备金利率、M2同比增长率、商业银行存贷比与R07D利率存在着长期的协整关系，是R07D利率变动的原因。     

How should we estimate value-relevance models? Insights from European data

We study the consequences of unobserved heterogeneity when employing different econometric methods in the estimation of two major value-relevance models: the Price Regression Model (PRM) and the Return Regression Model (RRM). Leveraging a large panel data set of European listed companies, we first demonstrate that robust Hausman tests and Breusch-Pagan Lagrange Multiplier tests are of fundamental importance to choose correctly among a fixed-effects model, a random-effects model, or a pooled OLS model. Second, we provide evidence that replacing firm fixed-effects with country and industry fixed-effects can lead to large differences in the magnitude of the key coefficients, with serious consequences for the interpretation of the effect of changes in earnings and book values per share on firm value. Finally, we offer recommendations to applied researchers aiming to improve the robustness of their econometric strategy.     

资本管制能否抑制资本外逃--关于中国的案例分析

关于资本管制抑制资本外逃的有效性问题,国内外学者曾采用多种计量模型进行过深入的分析,但没有得出统一的结论.运用经济计量分析中最新的协整分析方法--边界检验(Bounds Testing)和自回归分布滞后模型(Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model,ARDL)对中国从1980～2003年的资本外逃状况进行分析的结果表明,无论是从短期还是从长期来看,资本管制对我国的资本外逃都有显著的抑制作用.     

区域耕地数量变化预测方法的对比研究

研究目的:对区域耕地数量变化预测方法进行对比分析,科学合理确定区域耕地数量。研究方法:通过Pearson相关分析法筛选影响耕地变化的关键因子,利用改进的BP神经网络算法、灰色模型和多元线性回归模型法对费县耕地数量变化进行预测。研究结果:改进的BP神经网络算法相对传统的灰色模型和多元线性回归模型等预测方法具备较高的预测精度。研究结论:改进的BP神经网络算法是进行耕地数量变化预测的较好方法,具有实际指导意义,其预测结果可以为当地相关部门合理地确定耕地保有量、推进耕地保护提供科学依据。     

Land use optimization in watershed scale

Managing a watershed for satisfying the inhabitant's demand is a difficult task if one has to maintain a reasonable balance between usually conflicting environmental flows and demands. The solution to these complex issues requires the use of mathematical techniques to take into account conflicting objectives. Many optimization models exist for general management systems but there is a knowledge gap in linking practical problems with the optimum use of all land resources under conflicting demands in a watershed. In the present study, an optimization problem has been formulated for the Brimvand watershed, Iran, comprising ca. 9572 ha to find out the most suitable land allocation to different land uses, viz. orchard, irrigated farming, dry farming and rangeland targeting soil erosion minimization and benefit maximization.     

Does pay affect productivity or react to it?: Examination of U.S. manufacturing

There may be a bi-directional relationship between wages and labor productivity. According to conventional theory, employers reward improvements in productivity by raising pay. It also has been argued that wage increases can provide an incentive to improve productivity. This study applies a technique by Geweke to identify the feedback between pay and productivity in U.S. manufacturing. For the 1949–1998 period, measures of directional feedback indicate that both “pay as reward” and “pay as incentive” behaviors have occurred, but the results vary across manufacturing subsectors.     

我国金融发展对居民收入分配影响的实证研究

我国金融发展对城乡居民收入分配影响的实证研究结果表明:金融发展规模是城乡居民收入差距的格兰杰原因;金融发展效率与城乡居民收入差距具有双向的格兰杰因果关系.金融发展规模的扩张扩大了城乡居民收入差距,金融发展效率的提升则缩小了城乡居民收入差距.     

Price transmission between products at different stages of manufacturing in forest industries

The theory of demand and supply implies a positive relationship, or “price transmission” between the prices of products at different stages of manufacturing. This relationship was investigated with quarterly prices of softwood stumpage in the US South, and national prices of forest products, from 1977 to 2002. All prices, net of inflation, were found to be nonstationary and there was no evidence of co-integration between prices. Vector autogressive models, augmented by Granger causality tests and multiplier analysis showed that there was a one-to-one permanent positive response of the southern sawtimber stumpage price to a permanent change in the national lumber price. There was also a one-third permanent positive response of the national paper price to a permanent change in the national pulp price. There was no relation between regional pulpwood prices and national pulp or paper prices. When price transmission was significant, the full adjustment took about 2 years.     

同时开市背景下AH股的股价联动性分析

文章选取57支A+H股票编制开盘价指数和收盘价指数,以2011年3月7日为分界点分为两个阶段,对A股和H股的股价之间的联动性,采用计量经济学方法进行实证研究。研究表明:同时开市之后A股和H股的股价联动性有所增强,H股股价对A股股价的影响更加明显。