The housing price boom of the late 1990s: Did inflation targeting matter?

The recent boom in the housing markets of most developed economies has spurred criticism that inflation targeting central banks may have neglected the build-up of financial imbalances. This paper provides a formal empirical test of such claims, using a standard program evaluation methodology to control for a possible bias due to self-selection into inflation targeting. We consider 17 industrial economies over the period 1980–2007, among which nine countries have targeted inflation at some point. We find robust evidence of a significant positive effect of inflation targeting on real house price growth and on the house price-to-rent ratio.     

CAPITALIZATION OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT IN AGRICULTURAL LAND PRICES: WHAT DO WE KNOW?

Abstract.  The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of existing literature, both theoretically and empirically, on the extent to which agricultural subsidies do translate into higher land values and rents and finally benefit landowners instead of agricultural producers. Our review shows that agricultural support policy instruments contribute to increasing the rental price of farmland, and that the extent of this increase closely depends on the level of the supply price elasticity of farmland relative to those of other factors/inputs on the one hand, and on the range of the possibilities of factor/input substitution in agricultural production on the other hand. The empirical literature shows that land prices and rents have in general a significant positive and inelastic response to government support. Such inelastic response is thought to reflect the uncertain future of the farm programmes. And in general, studies have indicated that land prices are more responsive to government-based returns than to market-based returns.     

公共住房项目PPP模式研究

公共住房建设是政府实现住房领域公平目标的重要手段,但由于其社会福利属性,面临着资金来源不足、后续发展乏力的困境。文章将普遍应用于国内外基础设施领域的PPP模式引入公共住房建设领域,对PPP模式的中国公共住房项目进行内部、外部条件分析,论证研究的可行性;在此基础上结合经济适用房与廉租房的不同特点探索具体操作形式;对保障高效合作的运行机制进行探讨,以推进城镇公共住房建设发展。     

Competition in the stock market with asymmetric information

We build a game theoretical model to examine how the level of information advantage of insiders and the competition between insiders and sophisticated investors affect stock price movements and traders’ trading strategies and profits. We show that the competition between insiders and sophisticated investors can reduce the losses of less sophisticated investors, and thus alleviates the disadvantaged position of the less sophisticated investors. Further, traders’ profits are affected by the accuracy of insiders’ private information, and the number of days that insiders have obtained the information in advance. These findings show the importance of information transparency and the role of sophisticated investors in limiting insiders’ trading advantages and mitigating the expropriation of investors by insiders.     

我国住房保障政策经济学分析

住房保障政策是指政府在一定的社会、经济和政治形式下,为改善住在的数量、质量、价格以及所有权和使用权状况,为适应不同时期的住房需求和住房供应模式而设计的干预政策;其目的是提高居民家庭拥有住房的比例,从数量和质量上改善住房的供给。     

一种新的利用网络爬虫技术的土地价格指数编制方法

研究目标：目前有关中国土地价格指数的研究没有考虑不可观测特征的影响,本文给出一种可以控制不可观测特征的土地价格指数编制方法。[HTH]研究方法：通过结合传统的特征价格模型和重复交易模型,提出固定地理单元并利用组内差分以控制地块不可观测特征,提出了一种新的土地价格指数编制方法。[HTH]研究发现：[HTF][STBZ][WTBZ]以上海为例讨论了分类土地价格指数,研究发现从2008~2015年,上海同质住宅用地价格上升了359.92%,同质工业用地和商服用地价格的涨幅分别为101%和107%。[HTH]研究创新：利用网络爬虫技术收集微观土地交易数据,为指数的编制提供了数据基础。[HTH]研究价值：该方法能够捕捉地块所在的特殊位置对于其价格的影响。     

Price connectedness between green bond and financial markets

We study price connectedness between the green bond and financial markets using a structural vector autoregressive (VAR) model that captures direct and indirect transmission of financial shocks across markets. Using heteroskedasticity to identify the structural VAR model parameters, our empirical findings reveal that the green bond market is closely linked to the fixed-income and currency markets, receiving sizeable price spillovers from those markets and transmitting negligible reverse effects. We also show that, in contrast, the green bond market is weakly tied to the stock, energy and high-yield corporate bond markets. These findings have implications in terms of portfolio and risk management decisions for environmentally aware investors holding positions in green bonds.     

土地价格、土地财政与宏观经济波动

本文在一个包含金融加速器的新凯恩斯动态一般均衡模型中引入土地财政和政府隐性担保融资机制,借此考察在土地财政体制下土地价格的波动特征、驱动因素和对宏观经济的影响机制,同时使用2004Q1到2016Q1的中国宏观经济数据对模型进行贝叶斯估计。方差分解的结果表明,在样本期间,土地需求冲击、土地供给冲击和货币政策冲击是驱动中国土地价格变动的主要因素,货币政策冲击和土地供给冲击是引起短期土地价格波动的主要因素,土地需求冲击在长期中驱动了土地价格波动。数值模拟结果发现,土地财政对宏观经济波动具有放大效应,正向的土地需求冲击将推高土地价格,并通过抵押约束机制引起宏观经济波动,地方政府对土地财政的依赖将放大该效应,并进一步对土地价格形成正向反馈,从而引起宏观经济更大的波动;在土地财政体制下,正向的土地供给冲击有助于抑制土地价格上涨,并减少宏观经济波动。     

中三角城市群与长三角城市群市场一体化及影响因素比较研究

采用相对价格法和1 246组城市对数据,对1999-2013年中三角城市群和长三角城市群市场一体化程度进行测度与比较分析,运用熵权法构建了复合指标和固定效应模型,对两大城市群市场一体化影响因素进行了实证研究。结果显示：近15年来,两大城市群市场一体化水平均呈上升趋势,但中三角城市群市场一体化水平和进程均滞后于长三角城市群;地方保护主义、经济外向度和交通基础设施是影响两大城市群市场一体化的共同因素。其中,地方保护主义和经济外向度是两大城市群市场一体化的主要障碍,而交通基础设施有利于促进两大城市群市场一体化;信息通达度、经济发展水平和城镇化水平是影响两大城市群市场一体化的差异化因素。其中,经济发展水平和城镇化水平制约了中三角城市群市场一体化,却促进了长三角城市群市场一体化,信息通达度阻碍了长三角城市群市场一体化,却促进了中三角城市群市场一体化。     

中国认购权证市场价格偏差的实证研究

随着股权分置改革,中国的A股权证被再次推出,它的诞生丰富了投资者的交易品种,对建立多层次多维度的资本市场发挥了积极的作用.但是中国的A股权证市场仍存在诸多问题,实际价格偏离理论价格的现象司空见惯,其交易品种与交易规模不对称的现象也一直伴随着A股权证市场的发展.基于业内与学术界对A股权证价格偏差的困惑,本文利用混合回归模型和面板数据模型的实证方法,对认购权证市场价格偏差的研究发现,投资者对认购权证的频繁操作和投机炒作是导致价格偏差的重要原因,并且认购权证的创设制度对于抑制价格偏差的作用非常有限.此外,本文结合研究的实证结果,从创新A股权证产品和完善市场交易制度的角度,提出了完善和发展中国A股权证市场的政策建议.