Are Securitizations in Substance Sales or Secured Borrowings? Capital‐Market Evidence*

Two standard‐setting approaches have emerged globally to guide the choice of accounting for securitizations: the control and components approach (SFAS No. 125 and SFAS No. 140) and the risks and rewards transfer approach (IAS No. 39). A lack of consensus about derecognition accounting is a major impediment to achieving convergence in global standards that must be resolved. Thus, both SFAS No. 140 and IAS No. 39 will be reexamined, and evidence pertinent to the debate is timely and important. In this study, we present evidence consistent with the view of credit‐rating analysts, who view many securitizations as, in substance, secured borrowings. Specifically, for a sample of originators applying sale accounting guidance in SFAS No. 125 / 140 during the period 1997‐2003, we show that off‐balance‐sheet debt related to securitizations has, on average, the same risk‐relevance for explaining market measures of risk (that is, CAPM beta) as on‐balance‐sheet debt. We also find that, in a returns and earnings association framework, the pricing multiple on securitization gains declines as the amount of off‐balance‐sheet debt increases, implying that investors take off‐balance‐sheet debt into account when assessing the valuation‐relevance of such gains. For those who advocate the control and components approach to securitization accounting, our results suggest that, at least for frequent securitizers, the put option arising from implicit recourse is a “missing piece” that is not currently accounted for when calculating securitization gains. Our results challenge the extant measurement standards in SFAS No. 140.     

Use of Statistics in the Monetary Policy of the Czech National Bank: The Case of a Country in Transition

In the presented text the authors judge the importance of statistics in the monetary policy of the Czech National Bank (CNB) over the course of the economic transformation process, with particular consideration of changing statistical needs and the possibilities and limits of statistical data exploitation in the monetary analyses. The importance of statistics lies on the level of collection and processing of statistical information and on the level of use of statistical methods to analyse data. Since the start of the 1990s the requirements for statistics were significantly influenced by monetary policy. In the period 1990–1997, monetary targeting was the primary influential factor. Since 1998, the monetary policy is influenced by inflation targeting. Statistical priorities switched from monetary data to economy and financial market data. Much progress has been made in the use of statistical methods for analysing data. Statistics available at present cover the CNB's standard monetary-policy requirements and are on par with those in developed countries. Its further development will reflect the standard changes taking place in the more advanced countries.     

Delaying integration of immigrant labor for the purpose of taxation

Delayed integration (DI) is a rule for taxing migrants. It requires that immigrants be taxed in the host country only after some period of transition. Conversely, emigrants are released from the obligation to pay taxes only after a certain period. DI is an alternative to the Employment Principle and the Home-Country Principle. The former governs the international taxation of labor. The latter is a close substitute for the Nationality Principle, on which US tax law is based. The paper studies DI in a setting which allows one to trade off the efficiency costs of distortionary taxation and of wasteful government.     

城市核心可持续发展研究的多学科调适理念

由于城市核心具备多方面的功能与价值特征 ,作者认为 ,其可持续发展战略需要从多学科角度进行融贯综合的研究 ,形成包含历史、创新、特色、环保、社区、经营诸多理念的新的城市化观 ,并以此为指导进行旧城更新 ,以达到城市核心文脉永驻、文化永续、魅力永存、环境平衡、社区永生、活力永现的目标 ,实现可持续发展。     

旋转推铅球教与学的要素

旋转推铅是推铅球的方法之一.要学会这种方法,在教与学的过程中必须掌握:扭转推球、控制转动惯量给人体平衡造成的干扰、射体重心向圆心移动、旋转与投掷之间的衔接等技术要素.     

China''''s Cooperative Exploration of Oil and Gas and Its Taxation System

China' s foreign-oriented oil taxation system has, from the beginning, been based upon the positive experiences of other oil-producing countries and has incorporated common international practices. The system has been perfected over decades. It of fers more incentives than other oil-producing countries in the following four aspects: (1) Income tax has a "wide tax base and low tax rate"; (2) VAT levies a low tax rate on ma-     

风景道的规划设计:以鄂尔多斯风景道为例

文章首先简述了国外风景道规划设计的发展,然后对在中国发展风景道的特殊意义,以及国内已进行的风景道实践探索和理论提升进行了论述,并从总体理念与原则、目标与形象定位、景观及植物配置、游憩服务设施、交通和信息标示系统、声音景观设计等方面对鄂尔多斯风景道规划设计进行了较为详细的阐述,最后对我国风景道实践和理论的发展提出了建议.     

导游人员职业权益维护及其利益表达

我国导游员队伍建设出现的矛盾和问题归根结底在于导游人员职业权益的长期缺位,现实表现在三个方面:一是旅行社企业内、外部及境外同行都存在随意侵害导游人员工作岗位行政许可独占权;二是导游人员劳动报酬权、社会保障权难以保障;三是导游人员学习培训权难以维护.导游人员职业权益维护重在措施落实到位,更在于建立健全导游人员利益表达机制.具体措施主要有加强导游总量控制、旅行社企业等级标准与拥有导游队伍情况密切挂钩、旅游者(团)接待档次与陪同导游等级水平相匹配等;拓宽导游人员利益表达渠道则主要靠政府及其部门、导游群体代言人、工会组织、社会舆论监督、旅行社企业社会责任标准认证和民间团体等社会各个方面共同发挥作用.     

本土旅游企业差旅管理经营战略探析

差旅管理是国外最新引入我国的商务旅游核心产品之一.本文在对国内外文献分析的基础上对差旅管理进行了深入的剖析,同时针对中国新兴的差旅管理市场的发展现状,提出了本土旅游企业拓展差旅管理业务的对策建议.     

论公司慈善捐赠中的利益冲突与平衡

公司社会责任一度引起公司法学者们的广泛讨论.作为商事主体的公司该不该进行慈善捐赠,怎样平衡公司捐赠中的各种利益冲突,如何建立起既鼓励捐赠又对其进行适当约束的制度安排,涉及到公司法理念的转变和公司内部制度合理化,是一个值得探讨的问题.