Performing risk and the project: Risk maps as mediating instruments

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between management control and risk management by investigating the use of risk maps in an inter-organizational project collaboration in the Norwegian petroleum industry. The various ways in which risk maps are drawn upon in the course of the project reveal sources of perceived ‘usefulness’ that are not primarily to do with increased attention toward early warning signals and the defensive production of audit trails, as suggested by previous research. Rather, the study shows how risk maps act as mediating instruments which allow distributed actors to adjudicate interests, build confidence in and associate with ‘the project’ and its progress over time. Drawing on social studies of science and technology, the study shows how the graphical representations of risk maps manage to engage the user and act as mediating platforms where ‘performances’ around the notion of risk can happen. The paper thus extends and complements existing explanations of the pervasiveness of enterprise risk management technology and discusses its interrelation with project management and inter-organizational controls. More broadly, the paper illustrates how the government of risk is related to mediating instruments and how such mediation happens in the interplay between text and conversation.     

The choice of innovation policy instruments

The purpose of this article is to discuss the different types of instruments of innovation policy, to examine how governments and public agencies in different countries and different times have used these instruments differently, to explore the political nature of instrument choice and design (and associated issues), and to elaborate a set of criteria for the selection and design of the instruments in relation to the formulation of innovation policy. The article argues that innovation policy instruments must be designed and combined into mixes in ways that address the problems of the innovation system. These mixes are often called “policy mix”. The problem-oriented nature of the design of instrument mixes is what makes innovation policy instruments ‘systemic’.     

Cumulant instrument estimators for hedge fund return models with errors in variables

We revisit the factors incorporated in asset pricing models following the recent developments in financial markets – i.e., the rise of shadow banking and the change in the transmission channel of monetary policy. We propose two versions of the Fung and Hsieh (2004) hedge fund return model, especially an augmented market model which accounts for the new dynamics of financial markets and the procyclicality of hedge fund returns. We run these models with an innovative Hausman procedure, tackling the measurement errors embedded in the models factor loadings. Our empirical method also allows for confronting the drawbacks of the instruments used to estimate hedge fund asset pricing models.     

Estimating the basis risk of index-linked hedging strategies using multivariate extreme value theory

This paper studies the empirical quantification of basis risk in the context of index-linked hedging strategies. Basis risk refers to the risk of non-payment of the index-linked instrument, given that the hedger’s loss exceeds some critical level. The quantification of such risk measures from empirical data can be done in various ways and requires special consideration of the dependence structure between the index and the company’s losses as well as the estimation of the tails of a distribution. In this context, previous literature shows that extreme value theory can be superior to traditional methods with respect to estimating quantile risk measures such as the value at risk. Thus, the aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis of basis risk using multivariate extreme value theory and extreme value copulas to estimate the underlying risk processes and their dependence structure in order to obtain a more adequate picture of basis risk associated with index-linked hedging strategies. Our results emphasize that the application of extreme value theory leads to better fits of the tails of the marginal distributions in the considered stock price sample and that traditional methods in regard to estimating marginal distributions tend to overestimate basis risk, while basis risk can in contrast be higher when taking into account extreme value copulas.     

基于养老金发展的金融深化理论再探讨

人口老龄化问题的临近,促使国内对养老金相关议题的关注度日益提升。文章着重分析了养老金与银行储蓄、养老金与金融产品体系及养老金与金融深化等三方面的问题;并认为养老金的发展对国内银行储蓄有些微影响,会引起金融产品体系重构,但对金融深化促进经济发展的机理提出了质疑。     

基于大型精密仪器设备的使用效益研究

针对高校在大型精密仪器设备管理层面上存在的两个问题,提出了搭建共享平台、构建虚拟管理中心,建立激励机制和考核体系,强化队伍建设,设立开放基金及示范带动等对策,提高大型精密仪器设备利用率。     

高校公共体育设施资源在全民健身中价值研究

高校公共体育设施作为公共体育设施的重要成分,在全民健身需求中拥有着至关重要的价值。高校公共体育设施的对社会开放,符合时代对高校"直接为社会服务"的需求,它可以在一定程度上缓解社会体育资源的短缺问题。     

房地产企业金融工具公允价值计量相关性研究

美国次贷危机爆发后,新会计准则中的公允价值计量引起了国内学术界的广泛关注。本文采用面板数据分析方法,以我国A股房地产上市公司为样本,运用价格模型和收益模型,对2006-2008年有关数据进行定量分析,检验房地产公司金融工具公允价值计量的相关性。研究发现：金融工具公允价值计量相对于历史成本法具有增量的价值相关性,此结果支持了前人的关于相关性的观点并给予了延伸。     

公允价值计量对我国商业银行的影响分析

新会计准则引入了公允价值计量属性,本文概述了公允价值计量在我国商业银行相关会计准则中的运用,深入分析了公允价值计量对我国商业银行的影响,并提出了相应的启示。     

Effect of derivative accounting rules on corporate risk-management behavior

I examine the effect of the accounting standard for derivative instruments (SFAS No. 133) on corporate risk-management behavior. I classify a derivative user as an “effective hedger” (EH firm) if its risk exposures decreased after the initiation of the derivatives program, and as an “ineffective hedger/speculator” (IS firm) otherwise. I find that volatility of cash flows and risk exposures related to interest rate, foreign exchange rate, and commodity price decrease significantly for IS firms but not for EH firms, suggesting that IS firms engaged in more prudent risk-management activities after the adoption of SFAS No. 133.