Uneasy passages between neoliberalism and feminism: Social inclusion and financialization in Israel's empowerment microfinance

This article focuses on feminist non‐governmental organizations advocating for economic empowerment of women (EEW) through microfinance, using Israel as a case study. Through fieldwork, interviews and documents, we investigate the institutional practices, cultural discourses and struggles that EEWs develop in order to expose the particular ways in which feminist organizations interact with the world of finance and state institutions. Our analysis points to the complex power dynamics of mediation, suggesting that there are ‘uneasy passages' between neoliberalism and feminism, ones that help re‐signify the meaning of financial discourses while re‐politicizing women's social and economic exclusions. Simultaneously, however, this relation induces a series of compromises, whereby EEWs adopt neoliberal modes of governance. Rejecting the notion that contemporary feminism has simply been co‐opted by neoliberalism or the perception of EEW microfinance as a mere expansion of neoliberal rationalities, we reveal new sites and ways in which feminism both colludes and collides with neoliberalism.     

农产品价格波动中的金融化因素分析——以大豆、食糖为例

基于2007年1月至2016年12月的相关月度数据,以大豆和食糖为例,通过ARDL模型分别从长期和短期对影响国内农产品现货价格的金融化因素进行了系统测算。结果表明,通货膨胀因素、国内期货价格、货币供应量和国际现货价格是影响国内大豆现货价格的主要金融化因素;国内期货价格、通货膨胀因素和国际现货价格是影响国内食糖现货价格的主要金融化因素;汇率和能源价格对二者的影响均不明显。最后,从改善宏观经济环境、规范期货市场发展、健全农产品进口风险防控体系、关注品种间差异等方面提出了应对农产品金融化的对策建议。     

商品金融化背景下大宗商品指数收益机制转换

基于虚拟变量Markov机制转换模型,选取具有代表性的国际商品指数-标普高盛商品指数(S&P GSCI)及道琼斯大宗商品指数(DJCI)为研究对象,探寻大宗商品指数收益率机制转换出现的规律与诱因.实证结果表明:修正后的模型能较好地反映大宗商品指数收益率波动性呈现出的“中-高-中高-低-中”的阶段性变化,在阶段变换的拐点处商品指数呈现出具有转折意义的“V”形走势;金融危机前后的流动性冲击改变机制转化的概率.研究结果可以为预测大宗商品市场走势及阶段性转折点提供参考.     

控股股东股权质押是否会影响企业投资效率？——基于中国A股上市公司的证据

文章选取2010-2020年中国A股上市公司年度数据,采用面板回归模型对控股股东股权质押对企业投资效率的影响及其作用机制进行了实证分析。研究表明：（1）控股股东股权质押对企业投资效率具有抑制作用。相对于国有与高社会责任企业,控股股东股权质押对非国有与低社会责任企业投资效率的影响更为明显。（2）控股股东股权质押会降低投资不足状态企业的投资效率,但有助于提升投资过度状态企业的投资效率,这归因于控股股东股权质押引发的企业融资约束效应。（3）控股股东股权质押主要通过加大企业金融化及助推大股东掏空渠道来抑制企业投资效率,“控股股东股权质押-企业金融化/大股东掏空-企业投资效率”的传导渠道均有效。（4）股权制衡度与审计质量对两者关系均具有正向调节作用,股权制衡度与审计质量的提高均会加剧控股股东股权质押对企业投资效率的抑制作用。     

Responsibility,planning and risk management: moralizing everyday finance through financial education

The individualization, privatization and marketization of risk management represent a fundamental dimension of the financialization of everyday life. As individuals are required to engage with financial products and services as the main way of protecting themselves from risks and uncertainties, their economic welfare and security are construed as depending largely on their own financial decisions. Within this setting, the concept of financial literacy and accompanying practices of financial education have emerged as a prominent institutional field handling the formulation and communication of the attributes and dispositions that arguably constitute the proper financial actor. This article analyzes financial education programmes currently conducted by state agencies in Israel, examining the notions and principles they articulate when defining and explaining proper financial conduct. The study indicates that moral themes and categories occupy a salient place in the formulation of the character traits that constitute the desired literate financial actor. Notions of individual responsibility, planning ahead and rational risk management are presented not merely as instrumental resources, but as moral imperatives. Through these notions, the programmes moralize a broad array of everyday practices of personal finance such as saving, investing, borrowing and budget management, thereby connecting the sphere of financial matters to the domain of moral virtues. Offering a representation of particular modes of financial conduct as constitutive components of morally virtuous personhood, these practices imbue the financial field as a whole, especially its current generalized logic of individualized and marketized risk management, with moral meanings, hence contributing to the normalization and depoliticization of the financialization of everyday life.     

论我国艺术品的金融化趋势——以艺术信托投资基金为例

中国艺术品市场的金融化是大势所趋,就目前的情况来看,艺术品资本市场的发育与发展是其核心,而中国艺术品资本市场发展的突破口是艺术品投资基金。艺术品金融化,指的是研究如何将艺术品作为金融资产纳入个人和机构的理财范围,以及使艺术品转化为"金融工具",将艺术品市场金融化。艺术品信托投资基金的使用,目前来说是最广泛、风险较小、收益良好的金融工具,是当代资本市场和金融界对艺术品市场的介入,试图将艺术品市场资本化规范操作的尝试。然而无论从市场规模、市场地位,还是规范化程度、风险控制、投资品种等方面,仍存在诸多不足,需要借鉴西方艺术品投资的成功经验。     

后金融危机中再审中东原油"亚洲溢价"

一类国家定标准,二类国家搞工艺发明,三类国家加工生产产品,这已成为全球产业分工的趋势,而本次金融危机又进一步强化了这一格局。中国需要通过参与国际游戏规则的制订来提升自身的软实力和消弭在国际交往中强加给中国的不公平待遇。而亚洲溢价就是已经存在了近30年并对包括中国在内的东北亚国家盘剥的不公平的国际贸易规则。可用国际法、国际贸易、金融学以及数理统计等理论研究亚洲溢价的起源、演变以及发展趋势,以寻求消弭此溢价的路径。     

试析绿色信贷政策与污染企业金融化的关系

绿色发展是经济高质量发展的重要特征。限制污染企业的非环保生产、增加环境规制是落实环境保护政策的主要内容,金融部门从资金角度出台了一系列绿色信贷政策。绿色信贷政策在促进企业绿色转型的同时,也可能导致部分工业企业遭受更强的融资约束,加速资本脱实向虚。选取2006—2020年期间的工业行业上市企业作为研究对象,利用双重差分模型分析绿色信贷政策对企业金融化的影响,探讨融资约束的中介效应和行业竞争的调节效应,结果发现：绿色信贷政策显著提高了污染企业的金融化水平,民营污染企业的促进效应强于国有污染企业;融资约束上升承担了显著的中介机制,但仅存在于民营企业中。研究还发现,行业竞争将弱化绿色信贷政策的企业金融化正效应。     

政治关联加剧了企业金融化吗——来自中国民营企业的经验证据

以2007-2017年中国A股民营上市企业为研究样本,采用面板固定效应模型,实证检验了政治关联对企业金融化的影响及其作用机制。研究发现：政治关联加剧了企业金融化,在考虑内生性、改变政治关联和企业金融化的衡量方式、更换样本等稳健性检验后,上述结论仍然成立;机制分析表明,抑制全要素生产率和降低企业绩效是政治关联影响企业金融化的重要方式;异质性分析显示,政治关联对企业金融化的影响在高壁垒行业和产能过剩行业更为突出。     

How Do Neoliberal Policies Affect Income Inequality? Exploring the Link Between Liberalization,Finance, and Inequality

It is commonly asserted that economic liberalization increases income inequality in advanced industrial societies. However, the empirical evidence is inconclusive. The current investigation thus attempts to shed light on this important topic by presenting the argument that economic liberalization indirectly augments income inequality given its tendency to expand financial activity. This contention is tested using a panel dataset of 20 developed economies for the years 1988 to 2009. According to the fixed effects two‐stage least squares models, economic liberalization is positively associated with financialization, while financial activity is positively connected to income inequality. These results are found to be consistent across a variety of regression parameters and robustness checks.