论非寿险投资型产品的性质、风险与监管

保险公司的主营业务特性不同,其盈利模式和所面对的风险状况也就存在着较大的差异性,进而也决定着保险监管和风险管理措施的差异性。本文首先从保险公司经营业务的重新认识开始,明确了非寿险投资型产品的业务性质,进而通过比较传统产险业务和非寿险投资型产品的盈利模式和风险,指出非寿险投资型产品的双重业务性质所决定的双重风险,并针对性地提出了非寿险投资型产品的监管建议。     

当前中国商业银行流动性过剩的成因及政策建议

现有的对流动性过剩原因分析多数是从定性的角度进行.事实上,商业银行流动性过剩成因复杂,必须从宏观和微观两个层面上选取具有代表性的因素加以实证分析才能得到令人信服的结论.由实证分析结果可知,我国商业银行流动性过剩是多种因素造成的,包括宏观上的外汇占款过大、居民储蓄率过高等,也包括微观上的金融市场结构不合理、直接融资相对份额不高、商业银行在经营上过于依赖存贷业务等.因此,既要改革汇率形成机制,适当抑制出口,同时也要完善社会保障机制,促进消费.     

我国政府在科技创新体系中的地位和作用

从＂科学技术是第一生产力＂意识的形成,到＂科教兴国＂基本国策的选择,再到建设创新型国家目标的确立,我国政府在科技创新体系中的地位和作用被不断强化。政府在科技创新体系中的主要角色：首先是公共管理者;其次在某些关键或者基础领域是科技活动的重要投资者;最后是科技创新产品的消费者。相应地,政府在科技创新体系中的职能主要有：管理、引导和监督职能;政府的投资职能;通过国家采购制度对科技创新产品的消费职能。     

英国脱欧后美欧贸易投资关系及其变化

由于英国正式脱欧,美国与欧洲的贸易和投资关系快速变化。从贸易角度看,商品贸易中欧盟地位有所下降,成为美国第三大商品出口市场和第二大进口来源市场,美欧之间的贸易商品构成也发生了变化;服务贸易中由于英国所占份额最大,英国脱欧也将影响美欧之间的服务贸易额。从投资角度看,美欧仍是彼此最大的外国直接投资的来源地和目的地。     

外商对华投资市场战略差异的实证分析

通过探讨美国、日本、韩国、欧盟、新加坡等国家及中国港台地区在华投资市场战略差异的影响因素，运用实证研究的方法验证经典的国际投资理论是否能够解释外资在中国投资的现实。研究发现，长期占领中国市场是影响美国和欧洲在华投资的最重要因素，美欧与中国制造业工资成本之间的差异与其在华投资呈现负相关性。因此，与投资相关的研发和配套投资的本土化战略都具有长期性和战略性。     

Picking cherries or lemons: A unified theory of cross‐border mergers and acquisitions

This article provides a theoretical framework that enhances understanding of empirical evidence suggesting that international mergers and acquisitions, a key source of foreign direct investment, seemingly target in‐country firms that are at the extremes of the productivity spectrum—either high‐productivity firms, so‐called cherries, or low‐productivity firms, the “lemons.” The framework demonstrates that foreign firms with intermediate inputs seek high‐productivity domestic firms, while foreign firms with managerial expertise seek low‐productivity domestic firms. We also show that because of the difference in available outside options, high‐productivity domestic firms can demand a significantly higher portion of profits in the partnership than low‐productivity domestic firms.     

Multinational activity of European firms and heterogeneity

This paper offers an empirical assessment of the multinational activity of European firms. It takes the predictions of models of firm heterogeneity and FDI activity as a reference to explore the characteristics of multinational firms from 30 European countries. We use a data set, based on ORBIS, which links information of parent–affiliate pairs of firms. Our results show that more productive firms have greater multinational activity in terms of both scope, the number of foreign markets where they invest, and scale, the volume of local sales by subsidiaries active in foreign markets. The estimation of gravity equations shows that country characteristics that encourage multinational activity successively induce the entry of less productive parent firms. We confirm this asymmetry for the GDPs of the home and host countries, distance, contiguity and other standard gravity equation variables.     

Sourcing patterns of export‐platform foreign affiliates: The case of Japanese affiliates in Mexico

This study investigates the sourcing patterns of Japanese export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico, which mainly export to the United States and Canada. We propose a novel approach to estimate intermediate input elasticities of exports by sourcing country. We find that, on average, Japanese export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico source intermediate inputs from third countries, including the United States and Canada, rather than from Japan and Mexico, suggesting that Japanese export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico are mainly integrated into the vertical production networks back and forth between Mexico, the United States and Canada. In turn, Japanese foreign affiliates selling domestically in Mexico source intermediate inputs not only within the North American Free Trade Agreement countries but also from Japan. In addition, we find that export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico use more labour‐intensive production than do foreign affiliates selling domestically in Mexico. This suggests that saving labour costs is one of the motives for export‐platform foreign direct investment in Mexico.     

浅析工程设计阶段的投资控制

近年来,一些企业采取了很多举措来加强投资控制,并取得了一定效果,但个别项目超投资现象仍比较严重。投资控制是建设项目管理的重要环节,控制得当就会降低投资,提高运营经济效益。重点探讨了工程设计阶段的建设项目投资控制,从投资控制的必要性以及投资控制措施方面作了阐述。认为,确定合理的项目功能和投资目标,推行项目法人制,实行招投标制度与加强工程设计的变更管理等是投资控制的关键因素。     

Migrants and multinational firms: The role of institutional affinity and connectedness in FDI

We examine how, and to what extent, migrants in a host country attract foreign direct investment (FDI) from firms based in their country of origin (CO). Introducing the notion of institutional affinity, we argue that increased institutional affinity and increased connectedness of institutional environments of migrants’ CO and country of residence, make a location attractive to CO firms. Empirical analysis of FDI and migration panel data shows that in addition to the traditional factors influencing FDI patterns, there is a collective migrant effect on FDI, and this effect is statistically significant and economically meaningful for migrants from developing countries.