Recent progress in the empirical analysis of multi-unit auctions

I discuss some recent progress in the empirical analysis of multi-unit auctions, through which a number of important commodities (Treasury bills and bonds, electricity, emission permits, monetary infusions by some central banks) are allocated.     

地方国库资金运作管理思考——以广西为例

积极开展并增强国库资金运作,对确保财政资金安全、规范、有效的运行有着极其重要的意义。为了推动地方国库资金运作的研究,设计适合广西地方国库资金管理运作模式,本文从加强地方国库资金管理的紧迫性和可行性分析入手,结合广西国库资金管理的基础工作现状,对地方国库进行资金管理的配套制度和模式选择进行实证分析,并提出防范国库资金风险的措施。     

Financialized accounts: Share buy-backs, mark to market and holding the financial line in the S&P 500

In recent years the US corporate sector has deployed more cash from operations to finance the repurchase of outstanding share capital for treasury stock. Shares repurchased for treasury stock can help flatter earnings per share, fund senior management share option compensation schemes and finance corporate acquisitions. In financialized accounts these are now significant transactions which, it is argued, serve the financial interests of managers and investors.The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is now demanding a “greater use of fair value measurements in financial statements” with the result that share options and corporate acquisitions will be “marked to market”. This will force a financialized ratchet because managers in the S&P 500 will need step up cash extraction if they are to hold the financial line.     

Institutional Cash Pools and the Triffin Dilemma of the U.S. Banking System

Through the profiling of institutional cash pools, this paper explains the rise of the “shadow” banking system from a demand‐side perspective. Explaining the rise of shadow banking from this angle paints a very different picture than the supply‐side angle that views it as a story of banks’ funding preferences and arbitrage. Institutional cash pools prefer to avoid too much unsecured exposure to banks even through insured deposits. Short‐term government guaranteed securities are the next best choice, but their supply is insufficient. The shadow banking system arose to fill this vacuum. One way to manage the size of the shadow banking system is by adopting the supply management of Treasury bills as a macroprudential tool.     

财政分权、地方财政赤字与土地财政——来自中部欠发达地区J省的经验证据

现行的财政支出式分权导致地方财政收支不平衡状况日益严重,而地方政府在收入自主能力受约束的条件下,只能依赖土地财政来缓解地方财政赤字压力。现行的政绩考评体系、预算制度不完善是造成土地财政的重要根源。本文以中部欠发达地区J省为例,验证了地方财政赤字对土地财政的正向影响效应,建议通过完善现行的财政分权体制,赋予地方政府更多的财权,完善预算管理制度、强化预算的归一性,同时构建以人为本、促进科学发展的政绩考评机制来根治土地财政问题。     

Information in the U.S. Treasury Term Structure of Interest Rates

We provide evidence of a significant change in the information content of the U.S. Treasury term structure of interest rates over the last 20 years. We apply a regression approach to measure the information in forward interest rates and introduce both a curve fitting method and an alternative data source. We find more information in the recent U.S. Treasury term structure about future interest rates than about expected holding period returns. These results document a significant departure from prior empirical findings.     

Estimation of the Economic Effect of Treasury Fund --Based on Extensive Multiplier Channel

基于扩展的乘数渠道理论,本文运用协整方法分析了中国国库资金与货币供应、经济增长之间是否具有均衡关系,并构建SVAR模型研究中国国库资金对货币供应和经济增长的动态影响。结果表明：中国国库资金对货币供应量M1与经济增长之间具有均衡效应。国库资金的增加虽然会导致货币供应量减少,但在政府支出财政乘数效应不断形成的作用下,其仍然对中国经济增长具有一定的正向推动作用。鉴于货币政策对经济增长的效应比国库资金变动的综合效应更为强烈和持久,国库资金的业务操作必须考虑如何适度避免对货币政策形成干扰。     

国库集中支付制度在我国推行的困难及思路

推行国库集中支付制度是解决我国目前国库分散支付制度存在问题的行之有效的措施,但国库集中支付制度在推行过程中却遇到不少的困难和阻力.本文通过分析推行过程中遇到的阻力和困难,探讨建立有中国特色的国库集中支付制度,以逐步实现与国库管理的国际化接轨.     

Auctioning divisible goods

Summary. We derive equilibrium bidding strategies in divisible good auctions for asymmetrically informed risk neutral and risk averse bidders when there is random noncompetitive demand. The equilibrium bid schedules contain both strategic considerations and explicit allowances for the winner's curse. When the bidders' information is symmetric, the strategic aspects of bidding imply that there always exist equilibria of a uniform-price auction with lower expected revenue than provided by a discriminatory auction. When bidders are risk averse, there may exist equilibria of the uniform-price auction that provide higher expected revenue than a discriminatory auction. Received: November 4, 1999; revised version: March 9, 2001