Predicting FDI inflows: Exploring a nonlinear relationship between peace years,oil wealth,and the rule of law

Despite previous studies investigating the impacts of various factors such as peace years, natural resources, and the rule of law on foreign direct investment (FDI), empirical findings remain inconclusive. Therefore, this study investigates the interplay between these factors in shaping host country conditions that facilitate FDI inflows. Using generalized additive models, we examine the simultaneous effects of peace years, oil wealth, and the rule of law on FDI inflows in a sample of non-OECD countries from 1970 to 2009. Our results reveal that established peace is a critical factor in attracting FDI inflows for both oil-exporting and non-oil-exporting countries. However, the effects of the rule of law vary depending on oil wealth. Oil-exporting countries receive more FDI inflows when they have a weak rather than a strong rule of law, while non-oil-exporting countries tend to receive more foreign investments when they have a moderately strong rule of law. We argue that countries with oil wealth combined with a moderately weak rule of law provide an environment that is conducive to multinational corporations (MNCs) in extractive industries seeking monopoly rents. Conversely, countries without oil wealth should create stable yet efficient environments that protect property rights and promote labor market flexibility to appeal to non-resource-seeking MNCs.     

住房抵押贷款支持证券的利率风险度量——基于"建元2005-1 MBS"A证券的实证

住房抵押贷款支持证券中隐含期权的存在导致未来现金流不确定,久期和凸度等利率风险管理工具不再适用。本文基于OAS理念建立了住房抵押贷款支持证券的利率风险度量过程:采用多项式样条函数法构建零息票收益率曲线,采用Vasicek模型描述动态利率期限结构,通过蒙特卡罗方法模拟利率路径并确定未来现金流,采用ARMA模型描述和预测提前偿付率,进而计算出OAS、有效久期和有效凸度的值。最后以建元2005-1MBSA证券为对象进行了实证研究。     

Banks’ non-traditional activities under regulatory changes: impact on risk,performance and capital adequacy

Using the big six Canadian chartered banks quarterly financial statements and daily stock market data from 1982 to 2018, we examine the impact of non-interest income on Canadian banks’ risk, performance and capital under the different major regulatory changes made to the Bank Act of Canada. Our results show that Canadian banks’ expansion into non-traditional activities had slightly decreased their risks and significantly improved their performance benefitting from income diversification. Moreover, while adhering to capital adequacy regulation, reshuffling banks’ portfolio towards non-traditional activities did not reduce Canadian banks’ capital ratio. In spite of the re-regulation towards universal banking against ring-fencing, this feature buttresses the effectiveness of capital adequacy regulation in Canada in linking banks capital allocation with their risk taking.     

资本市场的创新与风险防范

资本市场存在外生性与内生性两种不同的风险。资本市场的创新可以分散和转移外部性风险,但加大了内生性风险,起到累积和放大资本市场风险的作用。美国次级贷款危机演变为金融危机,过度的金融创新起了传导链和放大器的作用。推进我国资本市场的创新,必须寻求创新与监管及风险防范的平衡;服务于实体经济发展的要求;健全资本市场的监督与宏观调控体系及机制;防范外部金融冲击和国际金融危机传染。     

Experimental evidence on the ‘insidious’ illiquidity risk

This paper introduces an experiment aiming to investigate the contribution of illiquidity risk to the total risk of a collective investment project. If implemented, the project succeeds with a known probability. Yet the project fails if the quota of investors is not reached in the first place. Hence strategic uncertainty compounds its effect with the “intrinsic risk” of the project. Results confirm the insidious nature of illiquidity: as long as a first collective default does not occur, investors accept high intrinsic risk projects. After a first default, they become extremely prudent and come back to market only gradually. After several defaults, private agents manage to coordinate on a relatively low intrinsic risk above which they refuse to participate in the project. Macroeconomic policy implications follow.     

水泥企业并购的财务风险识别与控制

当前,并购重组已成为国内知名水泥企业做大做强的战略选择,但企业并购重组过程中不可避免地存在企业并购的风险,由于信息的不对称性、外部环境的不确定性、经营管理活动的复杂性和企业自身能力的有限性而导致企业并购后达不到预期的经济效益,甚至给并购之后企业的经营活动留下隐患。并购风险贯穿于整个并购活动,作为企业并购成功关键因素的财务风险应该引起我们足够的重视,能否识别、规避和控制并购中的财务风险,决定着并购的成败。     

Water as an investment: liquid yet illiquid!

The water industry is in great need of further large investments to address existing severe water shortages worldwide which requires the participation of private sector investors. This industry is heavily infrastructure based and is therefore saddled with fixed assets-in-place or illiquid assets. This exposes the industry to what is termed as ‘illiquidity risk’, and hence, investors in this industry should be compensated for bearing this risk with an appropriate return premium (i.e. extra return). In this study, we provide evidence as to whether illiquidity risk indeed significantly affects returns in this industry. We examine the case of all 76 firms that compose the five major global water indices. After controlling for other factors that impact on returns, our results suggest that asset illiquidity is positively associated with stock returns. Specifically, water firms with a larger proportion of illiquid assets-in-place are observed to have greater stock returns than those with a smaller proportion of illiquid assets. Our results have important implications for the financing of water-related projects particularly those which involve the participation of investors from the private sector.     

房地产信托投资非预期风险评价方法及应用研究

房地产信托投资所具有的投资大、周期长、项目质量要求高、同业竞争激烈、流动性较弱等特征,决定了其面临的风险更多地表现为非预期性。本文从行业、项目、开发商、信托公司等方面分析了房地产信托投资非预期风险的成因,并归纳了非预期风险因素的构成因子,根据多级模糊综合评价原理,以某房地产信托投资业务为研究对象,在充分调研和对数据资料实施规范化处理的基础上,构建了非预期风险评价模型,对各类非预期风险因素进行了三级模糊综合评价,识别了各非预期风险因素的重要性程度,为房地产信托投资机构评价、监测、控制房地产信托投资业务的非预期风险提供了重要的信息支持。     

企业套期保值研究及实证分析--基于基差复制技术的方法

文章针对企业套期保值过程中由于套保比率的设定以及入市点的错误选择使得企业面临亏损风险的问题而提出对策。笔者在套期保值比率问题上首次引入了寻找合理判断入市点的模型并给出了具体方法。利用金融工程中无套利的复制原理,复制出了一个远期的权益,从而得出了文章所认为的最优套保比率,为实务界经常运用的选择入市点问题给予理论支持。文章构建的模型得出,在套保比率的设定问题上不但要选择入市点,还要选择套保的时间因素。在买期保值上,当判断出市场行情有利时我们选择相对较大的保值比率,这样可以使我们能尽量获取基差上扬所带来的收益,另外又不至于把套保比率无限扩大使得套保变成投机,以防在万一出现行情错误的时候出现大幅亏损。在卖期保值上,当判断行情有利时,选择相对较低的保值比率,这样可以使我们能尽量获取基差下跌所带来的收益,另外又不至于把套保比率无限缩小甚至不保使得套保变成投机,以防在万一出现行情错误的时候亏损。     

论对下岗职工再创业的金融支持

本文围绕金融如何加大对下岗职工支持力度这个中心, 从分析其困难入手, 按创业不同时期的不同需求, 将下岗职工的再创业划分为初创期和成熟期两个阶段, 并依照各个阶段的侧重点对各个时期的金融支持进行了详细的阐述。提出初创期以政策保护扶助为主, 成熟期以自由竞争、市场规律为主。特别在初创期, 提出构建创业银行的构想