Foreign Entry into Underwriting Services: Evidence from Japan's “Big Bang” Deregulation

We examined the effect of foreign entry into bond market underwriting activity using issue‐level data from the Japanese “Samurai” and euro–yen bond markets. We found that the fees charged by Japanese underwriters were higher on average than those of foreign underwriters, but the difference could be explained by conditioning on issue characteristics. Our results also suggest that bond issuers sorted properly across underwriters, as switching across underwriter nationalities would be expected to result in higher fees. However, the savings enjoyed by firms issuing with foreign underwriters were modest and statistically insignificant, while those of firms issuing with Japanese underwriters were substantial and statistically significant. This result suggests that Japanese underwriters priced their services aggressively over the sample period, perhaps in an effort to retain or gain market share. This conjecture is supported by a matching exercise that examined the liberalization of foreign underwriter access to the Samurai bond market, using euro–yen bond issues as a control. Foreign entry led to a statistically and economically significant decrease of 16 basis points on average in underwriting fees in the Samurai bond market. Overall, our results suggest that the international market for Japanese bond underwriting services was partially segmented by nationality as issuers appear to have preferred habitats, but that liberalization increased overall market competition.     

实施转融通制度提高了我国证券市场质量吗？——运用双重差分模型对沪深股市的实证分析

以50种纳入转融通标的证券的股票构造处理组,以50种纳入融资融券标的证券但未纳入转融通标的证券的股票构造控制组,利用转融通制度实施前后各10个交易月份的数据,采用双重差分模型研究转融通制度的实施对证券市场流动性、波动性、有效性等市场质量的净影响,得到的可靠结论是：转融通制度在一定程度上提高了证券市场的流动性,显著抑制了证券市场的波动性,显著提高了证券市场的有效性,总体上改善了证券市场质量。监管者应进一步拓宽转融通标的证券的范围,增加转融通标的证券的数量,并对证券进入转融通标的证券之前和之后进行区别对待;交易者在确定交易策略时也应做出正确选择。     

A transform approach to compute prices and Greeks of barrier options driven by a class of Lévy processes

In this paper we propose a transform method to compute the prices and Greeks of barrier options driven by a class of Lévy processes. We derive analytical expressions for the Laplace transforms in time of the prices and sensitivities of single barrier options in an exponential Lévy model with hyper-exponential jumps. Inversion of these single Laplace transforms yields rapid, accurate results. These results are employed to construct an approximation of the prices and sensitivities of barrier options in exponential generalized hyper-exponential Lévy models. The latter class includes many of the Lévy models employed in quantitative finance such as the variance gamma (VG), KoBoL, generalized hyperbolic, and the normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) models. Convergence of the approximating prices and sensitivities is proved. To provide a numerical illustration, this transform approach is compared with Monte Carlo simulation in cases where the driving process is a VG and a NIG Lévy process. Parameters are calibrated to Stoxx50E call options.     

证券经纪人制度建设的法律思考

本文通过对证券经纪人的法律地位、法律特征等方面的分析给出了在我国建设证券经纪人制度的基本原则和现实意义.     

Emerging Securities Exchanges in Africa

ABSTRACT

African securities markets have not received the academic attention of those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Historically, capital markets have not played a significant role in financing the development of the African economy. Today, however, African governments are focusing on the importance of moving toward more market-oriented economies and developing the financial market infrastructure to mobilize funds from both the private and public sectors. This paper describes the institutional characteristics of a newly revitalized stock exchange in Nairobi, Kenya. The study concludes that historical and cultural factors play a significant role in the characteristics of the Nairobi Stock Exchange.     

开放格局下证券公司价值增值研究

续中国签署WTO协议后,第二轮中美战略与经济对话将促进中国证券业市场进一步开放,高盛在中国的发展反映了中国证券市场的开放历程。通过考察开放格局下中国证券公司和美国证券公司的差距,以及不同规模的中国证券公司之间收入结构异同,认为在目前中国证券公司不具有竞争优势的情况下,中国应学习日本、韩国和台湾地区的谨慎开放政策和与经济实力相辅原则,控制开放速度及培育有利于中国证券业可持续发展的竞争格局。不同规模的中国证券公司必须通过对外部环境和自身优劣势科学分析,找出促进自身价值增值的战略和途径,培育各具特色的核心竞争力。     

Pricing the Chicago Board of Trade T-Bond futures

The aim of this paper is to investigate the pricing of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Treasury-Bond futures. The difficulty in pricing it arises from its multiple inter-dependent embedded delivery options, which can be exercised at various times and dates during the delivery month. We consider a general Markov diffusion process model for stochastic interest rates and propose a pricing algorithm that can handle all the delivery rules embedded in the CBOT T-Bond futures. Our procedure combines dynamic programming, finite-elements approximation, and fixed-point evaluation. Numerical illustrations are provided under the one-factor Vasicek and Cox–Ingesoll–Ross models, and under the time in-homogeneous Hull–White model.     

Accounting Policy Disclosures and Analysts' Forecasts

Using an international sample, I investigate whether the extent of firms' disclosure of their accounting policies in the annual report is associated with properties of analysts' earnings forecasts. Controlling for firm‐ and country‐level variables, I find that the level of accounting policy disclosure is significantly negatively related to forecast dispersion and forecast error. In particular, I find that accounting policy disclosures are incrementally useful to analysts over and above all other annual report disclosures. These findings suggest that accounting policy disclosures reduce uncertainty about forecasted earnings. I find univariate but not multivariate support for the hypothesis that accounting policy disclosures are especially helpful to analysts in environments where firms can choose among a larger set of accounting methods.     

我国证券投资基金羊群行为的实证研究

国外的研究显示，发达国家市场机构投资者的羊群行为并不十分明显。作为新兴市场主体的中国机构投资者在这方面的行为特征如何呢？本文使用经典的LSV方法以及Wermers扩展方法，对我国金融市场上以证券投资基金为代表的机构投资者交易行为进行了实证研究。结果发现，我国证券投资基金之间具有较明显的羊群行为，并具有以下特点：同时使用正负反馈操作策略；在流通盘较大和较小的股票上的羊群行为显著；成长型基金的羊群行为显著等。针对这些发现，笔者探究了羊群行为产生的原因，并提出了一些避免过度羊群行为的措施．     

Staging of Venture Financing, Investor Opportunism and Patent Law

Abstract:  Stage financing provides a real option that is valuable when facing external uncertainty. However, it may also induce investor hold-up, if the property rights on an invention are not sufficiently protected. As a consequence, the entrepreneur may not work hard. Investor opportunism is less likely to occur, if investors' residual cash-flow-rights are contingent on verifiable 'milestones' in the previous stage. Equity-linked financing also provides high-powered incentives to the investor not to 'steal the idea' because his payoff becomes sensitive to the project value. The paper provides a new explanation for both types of contractual provisions.