Does corporate social responsibility reduce financial distress risk?

This paper examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects the level of financial distress risk (FDR). Using a sample of 1201 US-listed firms during 1991–2012, our results indicate that firms with higher CSR levels have lower FDR, suggesting that a better CSR performance makes firms more creditworthy and have better access to financing, which is rewarded with less financial defaults. This finding is robust to using alternative proxies of FDR, to controlling for potential endogeneity, and is mainly driven by the community, diversity, employee relations, and environmental dimensions of CSR. Moreover, this relationship is more prevalent in firms with strong governance mechanisms and high product market competition. It is also more exacerbated for less distressed firms and during non-crisis periods. Overall, our findings suggest that the adoption of CSR practices comes with less distress and default risks, likely leading to a more attractive corporate environment, better financial stability and more crisis-resilient economies.     

银行金融服务外包国际监管的比较研究

全球金融机构逐渐将原先自行承担的业务转交外包服务提供商完成,在这种情况下,金融机构如何控制业务的风险,如何知道自己的业务符合监管的要求是迫切需要解决的问题。本文首先分析金融服务外包所带来的风险,进而对世界上10个国家和地区的监管法律法规进行比较研究,并得出相应的政策建议。希望本文的研究结果能够对我国制定金融服务外包指引提供值得借鉴的经验。     

Costs of financial instability, household-sector balance sheets and consumption

Extant work on costs of financial instability focuses on fiscal costs and declines in aggregate GDP following banking crises. We estimate effects of banking and currency crises on consumption in 19 OECD countries, showing consumption plays an important role in the adjustment following a crisis, and effects are not captured solely by the impact of crises on standard consumption determinants, income and wealth. Additional effects, attributable to factors such as time-varying confidence, uncertainty and credit rationing, are aggravated by high and rising leverage, despite financial liberalisation easing liquidity constraints. High leverage implies that banking crises taking place now could have greater incidence than in the past.     

社会融资总量与金融宏观调控新目标

社会融资总量是一定时期内实体经济从金融体系获得的全部资金总额,是反映金融业对实体经济资金支持的总量指标。目前,中国人民银行已经启动了对社会融资总量的统计监测工作,并致力于将其作为货币政策新的中介目标。社会融资总量包括信贷融资、证券融资、保险融资、其他融资等多种形式。加强对社会融资总量的统计、监测和调控,能够全面反映整个社会的流动性状况,有利于推进宏观审慎管理。     

大学生创业金融支持体系创新的探索性案例研究

在大学生不同的创业阶段构建与金融生态系统相互融合的创业金融支持体系,已成为决定大学生创业成功的关键。针对当前大学生不同创业阶段的融资需求状况,以赛博（杭州）创业工场为研究对象,采用问卷调查法与访谈法,通过分析大学生创业金融支持体系建设现状,从营造大学生创业创新需求的金融环境、创新大学生创业贷款管理模式、简化反担保手续、探索建立大学生创业“贷款险”等方面,提出了优化大学生创业金融支持体系的对策建议。     

Double leverage cycle,interest rate,and financial crisis

We view mortgage as a risky derivative of its underlying house collateral and combine no-arbitrage valuation with equilibrium valuation approaches to develop a dynamic model of leverage cycle and interest rate. This model provides a unified explanation to pro-cyclical optimism, asset prices, and leverage, and counter-cyclical volatility and interest rate. In addition, the model shows that tightening funding margin in the mortgage securities market dampens optimism, asset prices, and leverage, whereas it raises volatility and interest rate in the housing market. A double leverage cycle leads to more volatile markets and a severe leverage cycle, thus resulting in worse financial crises.     

金融非均衡状态下的通货膨胀成因与治理

当前我国经济运行中的金融非均衡现象日益突出。金融非均衡发展对货币政策最终目标——控制通货膨胀和金融稳定产生重大影响。本文分析了我国金融非均衡发展及其与通货膨胀相互关系的作用机理,并通过实证检验证明了金融非均衡发展是通货膨胀的格兰杰原因,最后提出了应对金融非均衡的政策策略:一是货币政策事前策略;二是加强金融监管和运用财政政策的策略。     

Institutions and economic growth in Portugal: a quantitative exploration

This paper presents a broad diagnostic of the level of institutional development in Portugal in the legal, corporate governance and financial systems. A comparative assessment suggests that Portuguese institutions are less developed than their European Union and East Asian counterparts, more developed than Greek institutions and on a level similar to that of Spanish institutions. We use data for a wide cross-section of countries since 1960 and correlate indicators of institutional development with the long-term average growth rate, identifying issues where reform is likely to significantly affect economic growth. We construct three new indices that measure the potential of institutional reform - the impact of reform on growth, the required reform effort and the efficiency of reform index - by taking into consideration the institutional distance between Portugal and the European Union. These indices measure, respectively, which reforms have the most payoff in terms of growth, which are less costly to undertake and which deliver the most growth per required effort. Our results strongly suggest that in a large number of issues, institutional reform may translate into substantially higher rates of economic growth. Of the ten most promising reforms, six are in the legal area, irrespective of which of the indices is considered. Whereas legal reform is promising at the aggregate and the microeconomic levels, in the financial sector aggregate indicators offer the wider scope for productive reform, while in the corporate governance area it is indices at the micro level that hold the most promise. These results support the view that a comprehensive reform effort is likely to deliver higher rates of growth in Portugal, allowing faster real convergence with the rest of the European Union.Received: January 2003, Accepted: February 2004, JEL Classification: O0, O5, K00, K4, G2, G3This paper is based on Firms, Financial Markets and the Law: Institutions and Economic Growth in Portugal, prepared for the conference Desenvolvimento Económico Português no Espaço Europeu: Determinantes e Políticas, organized by the Banco de Portugal. Financial support by the Banco de Portugal, NOVA FORUM and FUNDAÇÃO Para a Ciência e tecnologia and Polti through feder are gratefully acknowledged. Comments from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, two anonymous referees and the editor are sincerely appreciated. The usual disclaimer applies.     

我国金融发展促进FDI的出口增长效应实证研究

运用我国1991至2010年商品出口额、金融发展和FDI相关的时间序列数据,考察我国金融发展对FDI的出口增长效应的促进作用。实证结果表明：我国金融市场规模的扩大未能促进FDI的出口增长效应,而金融市场效率的提高能促进企业对FDI技术溢出的吸收能力,进而促进出口的增长。建议我国加快提高金融市场的效率,努力发挥政策性金融支持出口的作用。     

金融集聚对收入增长的溢出效应及区域异质性研究

金融业的一个重要特征是金融集聚。本文基于2010-2020年我国31个省的面板数据,通过计算全国金融业的莫兰指数来确定金融三大产业银行业、保险业和证券业集聚的空间依赖性,运用空间杜宾模型研究金融集聚对收入增长溢出效应的区域异质性。结果表明,银行业集聚对三大区域收入增长的空间溢出效应显著为正;保险业集聚存在对东部地区与中部地区正向的收入溢出效应,对西部地区的溢出效应显著为负;证券业集聚存在对东部与西部地区负向的收入溢出效应,对中部地区的溢出效应为正但不显著。因此,差异化的政策引导与区域间协调的金融资源配置对区域收入稳定增长意义重大。