Time variation in the cointegrating relationship between stock prices and economic activity

The present paper examines whether there exists a long‐run cointegrating relationship between a stock market index and output and interest rates. Moreover, estimation is conducted over the full sample and both a recursive and rolling sample to examine any time variation in the nature of the relationship. The results support evidence of a single cointegrating vector, where stock prices typically exhibit a positive relationship with industrial production and a negative relationship with interest rates. However, there is significant time variation and periods of time where contrary results are observed. As such any model of stock prices needs to account for such time variation     

中国利率政策与房地产价格的互动关系研究

本文通过建立结构向量自回归模型对中国房地产价格与利率政策之间的互动关系进行了探讨,发现中国的利率政策并不能对房地产价格形成有效的调节,造成了利率政策房地产价格传导渠道的失效;相反,房地产价格冲击对利率政策却具有显著的正向影响,说明中国历史上的利率政策制定的确参考了房地产价格因素,并对其作出了一定的反应。本文还利用模拟分析对样本期间内我国利率政策的实施效果进行了分析评价。研究结论对中国中央银行利率政策的有效执行及房地产市场调控具有重要政策启示。     

房价波动与财政收入：传导机制与实证分析

本文分析了在现行的地方政府控制土地出让收益模式下,城市房价波动对财政收入的影响机制。研究发现：土地出让收入、财富效应、房地产税收以及房价波动的产业关联效应构成了财政增收的四种机制。基于2000—2010年的35个大城市的面板数据,我们定量分析了房价波动对城市财政收入的影响。结果显示,房价和总产出的变动显著影响了财政收入,从而为财政收入的高速增长提供了一种基于资产价格的解释。     

汇率与股价变动关系:基于汇改后数据的实证研究

研究我国2005年7月汇率制度改革后汇率与股市的关系及其传导机制,有助于深刻认识金融市场联动特征,对于防范金融市场风险和完善我国资本市场、外汇市场等的改革具有重要的理论和实践意义。本文实证发现了汇率和股价存在着长期均衡的协整关系;从长期来看,两者关系符合流量导向模型,上证指数受到汇率长期影响,从短期来看,股市和汇市存在着交互影响,汇率变化影响股指变动有时滞。运用滚动窗口的Granger检验和加入其他重要宏观变量的多变量协整检验,本文证明了这种长期关系具有较强的稳健性。进一步从板块指数与汇率的关系来看,房地产、金融、民航、石化、钢铁指数均与汇率存在着长期的协整关系,汇率变化是这些板块指数的Granger原因。最后,本文对实证结果做出分析并指出了相应的政策含义。     

经济环境、调控政策与区域房价——基于面板数据同期强相关视角

本文关注经济环境与调控政策等共同冲击对区域房价的影响,强调重大事件与我国房地产市场变动的内在关系;试图从同期相关视角出发,构建区域房价的共同因子模型,并利用2002第一季度至2012第四季度省际面板数据进行实证分析。结果表明：（1）区域房价受经济环境与调控政策两个因子影响;（2）相对于其它经济事件,次贷危机对我国各地区房价的影响最大,相对于其它时期的房价调控政策,2003年-2008年的调控政策更为有效;（3）各地区对共同冲击的反映是异质的。从而,政府在制订房价调控政策时应充分考虑市场反应,以促进房地产市场的协调平稳发展。     

新疆发展蔬菜产业、稳定蔬菜价格的对策研究

蔬菜价格是推高居民消费价格总水平（CPI）的重要因素之一。进入2012年,新疆蔬菜价格呈现快速上涨态势,价格持续维持高位运行,居高不下,对城乡居民生活水平影响较大。本文从2012年上半年蔬菜价格变动特点入手,分析了蔬菜生产、流通等方面存在的问题及其价格偏高的原因,提出了促进设施蔬菜生产、保供应、稳价格的政策建议。     

A legal and economic study of the new Consolidated Text of the Land Use Act of 2008 in Spain

The study conducts a legal and economic analysis comparing the new Consolidated Text of the Land Use Act of 2008 (Texto Refundido de la Ley de Suelo) and the Land Law 6/1998, April 13 now repealed. The study examines various articles contained in the new law and the old law. Although the study analyzes every title in both laws, it focuses on Title III regarding valuations for the expropriation of property owners.     

The Capitalization of Public Services and Amenities into Land Prices — Empirical Evidence from German Communities

Applying the hedonic approach to land prices, this article investigates the capitalization of public services and pure amenities in a cross section of German communities. Possible spillover effects from neighboring municipalities are explicitly included in the analysis and prove to be of considerable importance. Estimates of the impacts of local attributes on land prices are obtained taking into account the spatial structure among unobserved variables. The results confirm that differences in land prices are largely attributable to local conditions and policies. This implies a significant degree of mobility as well as high estimation of local attributes on the part of German households.     

Emotional Factors in Currency Perception

People may fill currencies with moral and emotional meanings and become attached to currencies in a similar way that they are attached to a brand. Such meanings and affective attachments to a currency may result in people’s resistance to proposed currency changes as well as playing a significant role in everyday consumer behaviour. Following Tajfel’s accentuation theory, it is shown in two studies that (1) opinions that prices in a currency (labelled an “expensive currency”) are high result in perception of prices in this currency as higher than prices in another currency, and that (2) positive affect attached to a currency results in perception of prices in this currency being higher than prices expressed in a currency which is not emotionally laden.     

On the Sources of Inflation in Kenya: A Model‐Based Approach

We develop a semi‐structural new‐Keynesian open‐economy model – with separate food and non‐food inflation dynamics to study the sources of inflation in Kenya in recent years. To do so, we filter international and Kenyan data (on output, inflation and its components, exchange rates and interest rates) through the model to recover a model‐based decomposition of most variables into trends (or potential values) and temporary movements (or gaps) – including for the international and domestic relative price of food. We use the filtration exercise to recover the sequence of domestic and foreign macroeconomic shocks that account for business cycle dynamics in Kenya over the last few years, with a special emphasis on the various factors (international food prices, monetary policy) driving inflation. We find that while imported food price shocks have been an important source of inflation, both in 2008 and more recently, accommodating monetary policy has also played a role, most notably through its effect on the nominal exchange rate. We also discuss the implications of this exercise for the use of model‐based monetary policy analysis in sub‐Saharan African countries.