Learning from a rival bank and lending boom

When bankers observe a rival winning in the interbank competition for lending to a firm, they infer that the firm may be more promising than they had thought. From this consideration, they loosen their creditworthiness tests and lower the interest rates they offer in the next lending competition for the firm. Increased interbank competition reduces the impact of this observational learning and decreases the credit risk taken by each bank because of a severe winner's curse, while it increases the aggregate risk taken by the entire banking sector.     

WTO下的金融服务贸易自由化与国家经济安全

本文通过对《金融服务协议》(FSA)有关条款及制度设计的考察,说明WTO下的金融服务贸易自由化可保证成员国政策的独立性、资本的有限流动及金融资产安全;各国金融服务市场开放程度由谈判程序和正列举承诺方式决定的制度设计可保证成员国根据本国金融业竞争力水平自主决定其开放进程。文章结论认为,WTO下的成员国金融服务贸易自由化不会引致本国经济的不安全。     

由金融抑制到金融深化的路径选择——国际比较与中国经验

上世纪90年代以来,一些实施金融深化发展战略的发展中国家相继爆发了金融危机,这不仅加剧了学术界的理论争论并产生某种理论偏向,而且更是使那些正在或准备实施金融深化战略的发展中国家对金融深化理论产生了动摇和怀疑。在对金融深化理论进行综述和评价的基础上,结合发展中国家的金融改革实践,对金融深化理论和实现路径提出了一些看法。     

利率市场化初期的同业拆借利率

随着我国利率市场化改革的不断深入，央行基准利率对同业拆借率的影响日益明显。本文分阶段对两变量的因果关系进行实证分析，通过部分调整模型给出了基准利率对同业拆借率的短期效应和长期效应。     

Finance and consumption volatility: Evidence from India

The main objective of this paper is to explore the determinants of private consumption growth volatility in India, focusing on the role of financial sector policies. Using data for India over the period 1950-2005, the results show that the implementation of financial repressionist policies is strongly associated with lower consumption volatility. The results remain robust after controlling for a wide range of macroeconomic shocks and variables. The presence of a threshold effect implies that the benefits of financial reforms in reducing consumption volatility can only be reaped when the financial system becomes sufficiently liberalized. The results also indicate that the presence of a more open financial system may serve to dampen fluctuations in private consumption.     

中国农村金融市场中非价格信贷配给的理论和实证分析

本文建立农村金融市场中非价格信贷配给的理论分析框架,基于特殊设计的直接诱导式询问方法,对农户面临的非价格信贷配给机制进行调查和识别,并实证分析影响非价格信贷配给机制的因素。研究发现,农村利率市场化改革以来,农村金融机构并没有将灵活的利率差异化管理作为弥补潜在贷款损失的手段。当前农村金融市场中多种类型的非价格信贷配给机制并存,农村金融机构的信贷合约特征和放贷行为偏好使得一部分农户被配给出信贷市场,一部分农户主动退出信贷市场。农村金融机构倾向于与农村地区少数生产规模较大、具有稳定收入和身份特征的农户建立稳定的、以重复放贷为基础的信贷供给机制,不具备这些特征的农户将面临配给,这与利率管制时期的放贷行为并无本质差异。未来须调整仅仅以增加农村金融供给解决融资难题的改革思路,深入到市场结构、信贷合约和产品创新以及包括公司治理、风险甄别和内部管理机制在内的农村金融机构治理机制等微观层面的改革。     

两岸贸易对台湾经济增长影响的实证分析——基于1980年—2010年的时间序列数据

运用1980年—2010年的相关时间序列数据,在回顾两岸经贸发展历程的基础上,分析两岸贸易对台湾地区经济增长的作用机理,系统地运用协整理论对两岸贸易与台湾地区经济增长的关系进行实证研究。研究结果表明,两岸贸易与台湾地区经济增长之间存在着长期均衡关系,且两者之间显现着双向的Granger因果关系,但相互的影响程度不同。台湾地区经济增长对两岸贸易增长的影响并不十分显著,而两岸贸易增长对台湾地区经济增长的影响却十分显著。     

From protectionism to free trade fever? Recent reforms in developing countries

During the 1980s, increasing numbers of developing countries unilaterally liberalized their trade regimes. This paper presents an overview of this dramatic shift from protectionism toward freer trade. South Asia, Latin America, and East Asia have implemented extensive reforms, yet each region has shown a distinct difference in approach and in the degree of liberalization actually achieved. Latin America stands out as moving sharply toward the level of openness of the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs). Only in Africa is there little progress toward freer trade.     

A Heteroskedastic Multivariate Tobit Analysis of Price Dynamics in the Presence of Price Floors

This article presents an econometric analysis of the effects of price floors on price dynamics and price volatility in a multimarket context. We investigate the implications of a government price-support program providing a censoring mechanism to the price determination process. The analysis uses a dynamic multivariate Tobit model under time-varying volatility. The model is applied to the U.S. dairy markets with a special focus on the effects of government price-support programs in a period of market liberalization. The econometric analysis provides useful information on the multimarket effects of price supports on price dynamics and price volatility.     

资本账户开放和金融自由化的法律思考——来自金融危机的启示和东亚的经验

本文以东亚国家(包括中国)的金融自由化的经验,阐述金融自由化的法律和产业政策之间微妙而复杂的关系。在东亚发展中国家建立起有效的国内监管体系和基本金融制度以前,不应该完全开放资本账户。但是,经过辨析金融服务自由化和资本账户自由化的关系,本文指出,根据《服务贸易总协定》所列出的服务范式,金融服务贸易并不必然涉及大规模的国际资本流动,因此对金融服务业开放应持积极态度。虽然如此,新加坡的例子说明,“知所进退”地处理好民族金融产业保护问题对政府是个虽难但依然可以处理好的挑战。