基于M-SemiA.D组合投资模型及对上海股市实证研究

马柯威茨的均值-方差(M-V)模型中以方差度量风险存在两个致命的缺陷,为了更精确度量风险,作者提出了半绝对离差(SemiA.D)概念,并以此对M-V模型进行改进。通过对上海有代表性的50支股票复权价进行分析,我们得到:在每个期望收益率水平上,基于M-SemiA.D模型的投资组合都优于M-V模型中的投资组合,并且有效投资组合满足两基金分离定理。     

多阶段资产组合选择均值-VaR模型和均值-方差模型的比较

本文建立了多阶段情形下的均值-方差模型和均值-VaR模型,并比较了两种模型的不同性质,给出了两种模型下的最小方差组合性质和在收益率的均值-标准差坐标下,不同的风险度量方法产生的不同的有效边缘以及VaR模型置信度趋于1时的极限性质,最后给出了分析的数值例子.     

引入无风险证券的均值——VaR投资组合模型研究

本文根据Markowitz均值-方差模型的研究发展过程,结合机会约束模型,引入无风险证券,建立了用VaR代替方差作为风险度量指标的机会约束下均值———VaR投资组合模型,讨论了模型最优解的存在性和唯一性,并得到了模型最优解的解析表达式。     

摩擦市场中允许卖空的最优投资组合选择

资本市场的一个重要特征就是存在不确定因素,为了衡量其导致的风险,本文提出基于绝对偏差的新型函数,在一个存在摩擦的资本市场中构造均值-绝对离差(mean-absolute deviation,MAD)投资组合选择模型.该模型结构特殊性使其转化为线性规划问题,从而可利用单纯型法求解.实证分析比较了不同风险函数下投资组合的有效前沿,并验证了该方法的有效性.     

基于半离差风险收益的投资组合管理优化模型研究

本文在对投资组合管理理论分析的基础上,利用半离差法计算组合投资的风险与收益,克服了H. Markowitz提出的均值一方差模型研究的不足以及半方差模型的烦琐,提出了基于半离差风险收益的多目标优化模型;假设投资组合一般包括三种资产形式:股票、债券、现金。引进了机会成本概念在投资选择中的重要性,更加符合我国投资者的实际,便于操作,这为证券投资组合优化提供了一种新的方法,并有一定的参考借鉴价值。     

基于Copula-APD-GARCH模型的投资组合有效前沿分析

根据ES风险度量方法,拓展了马克维茨均值-方差资产组合模型,研究均值-ES准则下的资产组合问题.用APD-GARCH模型刻画风险资产收益率序列,以多元Copula函数描述风险资产间的相关结构信息,构造灵活的Copula-APDG-ARCH模型.利用该模型,借助Monte Carlo模拟,分别研究相关结构是多元正态Copula函数、多元t-Copula函数和多元Clayton Copula函数的风险资产组合的均值一ES有效前沿,并进行比较.实证研究表明,在有效组合范围内,正态Copula函数明显高估了资产的组合风险;当期望收益较小时,t-Copula函数对应的风险值最小,但随着期望收益的增加,多元Clayton Copula函数时应的有效前沿表现最好.     

风险资产组合的均值-WCVaR模糊投资组合优化模型

本文在均值-方差模型的框架下,建立了以Worst-Case VaR(WCVaR)代替方差作为风险测量指标的均值-WCVaR模型.同时,将对数型隶属函数引入到模型中,以证券组合期望收益率极大化和WCVaR极小化为目标,建立了对数型满意程度的模糊决策投资组合选择模型,更好地反映了投资者对目标值的取值意图.依据上海证券市场的实际数据,采用遗传算法进行了模拟计算,验证了模型的有效性.     

动态均值-方差资产组合的有效性:时变风险容忍度视角

尽管均值-方差模型在静态资产组合优化过程中得到广泛运用并证明是有效的,但在动态情景下,均值-方差模型运用于动态资产组合优化过程中的有效性问题引起人们的质疑：一是常风险规避系数的设定不符合事实;二是投资者偏好设定不符合动态情景下的主流效用函数族。鉴于此,本文假设投资者风险容忍度是资产组合投资期与投资者期望收益率的函数,研究动态均值-方差资产组合的有效性问题。基于均值-方差分析框架构建时变风险容忍度下的动态资产组合模型;运用伊藤定理和拉格朗日乘子法获得最优资产组合封闭解;基于二次效用偏好下的动态资产组合,从资产组合策略、夏普率、确定性等价收益率和有效前沿等视角验证动态均值-方差资产组合策略和业绩,并予以实证。结果表明：动态均值-方差资产组合不但具有同等业绩而且体现了其灵活性和风险对冲价值;尽管动态均值-方差资产组合表现出高杠杆性,但其确定性等价收益率较高,且随投资期的增加呈现倒U型趋势;动态均值-方差资产组合的投资期效应显著,强于投资者期望收益率。研究指出,时变风险容忍度下的动态均值-方差资产组合管理和优化策略有效,但在短投资期（低于12个月）和（或）低期望收益率下并不适用。研究不但拓展了均值-方差模型在动态情境下的应用,而且体现了投资者源于心理和（或）其财富变化的投资行为调整。     

机会约束下的含有资本结构因子和交易成本的均值-VaR投资组合模型

本文在均值-方差模型和机会约束模型的基础上,提出了在允许卖空时的一类机会约束下含有资本结构因子和交易成本的均值-VaR证券投资组合模型,以期望收益率与置信水平为导向,在假设收益率服从正态分布的条件下,建立了其数学模型,并讨论了最优解的存在性和唯一性,以及最优解的解析表达式。     

具有熵约束的多阶段均值—半绝对偏差投资组合优化

考虑投资者面临金融市场随机不确定性,将证券收益率视为随机变量,文章运用半绝对偏差度量风险,采用投资组合的熵度量分散化程度,同时,考虑交易成本和借款限制,提出多阶段投资组合模型。由于投资过程存在交易成本,上述模型为路径依赖性的动态优化问题。文章运用离散近似迭代法求解,并证明了该算法是线性收敛的。最后,通过实证研究得出熵的取值越大,投资组合的最终财富越小。     

Introduction to Special Section on Sensitivity Analysis and Summary of NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis

This guest editorial is a summary of the NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis held June 11–12, 2001 at North Carolina State University and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis. The objective of the workshop was to learn across disciplines in identifying, evaluating, and recommending sensitivity analysis methods and practices for application to food‐safety process risk models. The workshop included presentations regarding the Hazard Assessment and Critical Control Points (HACCP) framework used in food‐safety risk assessment, a survey of sensitivity analysis methods, invited white papers on sensitivity analysis, and invited case studies regarding risk assessment of microbial pathogens in food. Based on the sharing of interdisciplinary information represented by the presentations, the workshop participants, divided into breakout sessions, responded to three trigger questions: What are the key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods applied to food‐safety risk assessment? What sensitivity analysis methods are most promising for application to food safety and risk assessment? and What are the key needs for implementation and demonstration of such methods? The workshop produced agreement regarding key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods and the need to use two or more methods to try to obtain robust insights. Recommendations were made regarding a guideline document to assist practitioners in selecting, applying, interpreting, and reporting the results of sensitivity analysis.     

Distinguishing traumatic, vicarious and routine operational stressor exposure and attendant adverse consequences in a sample of police officers

Problems in studying occupational stress within the police service are identified and the paucity of work on operational duties as potential stressors are discussed. The present study reports the results of a factor analysis of operational stressors (N = 601 serving British police officers) that revealed three factors: exposure to death and disaster; violence and injury; sexual crime. These were demonstrated to be reliable scales and were included in logistic regression models together with a range of demographic and psychological variables. Models were applied to men and women separately, which showed there to be different predictors of the likelihood of suffering distress (measured by the General Health Questionnaire, GHQ) in terms of the officer's gender and operational role. Overall the model for women officers was better at predicting psychological distress than that for men. These findings are related to aspects of the police occupational culture. Further discussion is offered that conceptualizes police operational stressors as traumatic, routine and vicarious. Finally, some implications are drawn for the provision of stress intervention in the light of this differentiation.     

Criteria for selecting a production control philosophy

Logistic objectives constitute a compromise between having short leadtimes and a low volume of work in progress on the one hand and a high resource loading and due date obligation on the other. Miscellaneous production planning approaches offered today provide different combinations of logistic objectives for satisfying a manufacturing strategy. To combine the strength of the various approaches into a unified system, a new approach based on a dynamic and distributed production planning methodology is proposed. To customize the approach, various analyses and specifications have to be made and for that reason some important characteristics and criteria for analysing production control philosophies will be given.     

The social construction of the meaning of acute stressors: a qualitative study of the personal accounts of police officers using a stress counselling service

The police profession is one in which acute stressors are encountered more frequently than in other occupations. Using the personal accounts of 35 police officers attending an in-house stress counselling clinic, the aim of the present study was to provide a qualitative examination of how the institutional context of policing influenced the ways in which acute stressors signified to individual police officers experiencing felt distress. Using the framework of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy as an analytical tool, it is argued that beliefs contributing to the experience of felt distress are related to the way in which policing as both an identity and an activity is constructed through the police organizational culture. Not only do these constructions influence the ways in which officers perceive themselves and their environments, but they also operate at the collective level to 'normalize' some emotional responses and to 'pathologize' others which, it is argued, could impact upon the outcomes of interventions such as stress counselling.     

The moderating role of social support in Karasek's job strain model

This paper examines whether social support is a boundary-determining criterion in the job strain model of Karasek (1979). The particular focus is the extent to which different sources of social support, work overload and task control influence job satisfaction, depersonalization and supervisor assessments of work performance. Hypotheses are tested using prospective survey data from 80 clerical staff in a university setting. Results revealed 3-way interactions among levels of support (supervisor, co-worker, non-work), perceived task control and work overload on levels of work performance and employee adjustment (self-report). After controlling for levels of negative affect in all analyses, there was evidence that high levels of supervisor support mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of job satisfaction and reduced reported levels of depersonalization. Moreover, high levels of non-work support and co-worker support also mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of work performance. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of social support networks both at, and beyond, the work context.     

Job insecurity, coping resources and personality dispositions in occupational strain

This paper presents research on the relationships between the work-related stressor of perceived job insecurity and various indicators of occupational strain, taking into account employees' personality dispositions (trait negative and positive affectivity) and coping resources. Respondents were 222 Australian public servants surveyed during organizational restructuring that involved downsizing and threat to job certainty. The research was formulated within an adaptation of Osipow, Doty, and Spokane's (1985) framework of stress-strain-coping that included the possible direct as well as moderating effects of personality dispositions in reporting occupational strain (Parkes, 1990). Findings from hierarchical regression analyses indicate consistent significant independent effects of personality dispositions, coping resources and perceived job insecurity on various indicators of strain. There was also support for the moderating roles of negative affectivity and self-care in the relation between perceived job insecurity and physical strain. Implications for the role of dispositional factors, especially negative affectivity, and the utility of various coping resources in accounting for occupational strain in times of threatened job security are discussed.     

Job stress, job strain, and psychological withdrawal among Dutch university staff: towards a dualprocess model for the effects of occupational stress

This study examined the antecedents of job strain (emotional exhaustion, health complaints) and withdrawal behaviour (e.g. lowered organizational commitment) among a cross-sectional sample of 131 academic staff members of the law department of a large Dutch university. Conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) provided the theoretical background for this study. Strains and withdrawal behaviours were expected to be most prominent among those who reported having few resources and/or who reported high job demands. Structural equation modelling revealed that this was indeed the case. As predicted, differential patterns of effects emerged for job demands and job resources. Analysis of the effects of four job-specific stressors revealed that especially the structural aspects of a staff member's teaching task (e.g. the number of students in their classes) contributed strongly to perceived job demands. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.     

Employees' perceptions of organizational restructuring: the role of social support

Organizational change and restructuring is often perceived as leading to increased occupational stress, impacting negatively on the psychological well-being of employees. This pragmatic study investigates the role of social support and dispositional affect as moderators of role stress post-restructuring for employees in a public utility company. A total of 176 employees, including 37 managers, 60 graded staff and 78 industrial staff completed a self-report questionnaire, approximately 1 year postrestructuring, retrospectively assessing role conflict, ambiguity, overload and positive and negative feedback pre- and post-restructuring. Results suggested that overall role stress increased for managers/ senior officers and graded staff, but not for industrial staff. Social support was linked with lower role stress, more positive feedback and less negative feedback at post-restructuring. For certain role stressors this impact was moderated by dispositional affect, but the effect was not consistent across occupational groups. Positive affect enhanced the effect of manager support in reducing role conflict for graded staff, and the effect of co-worker support in increasing positive feedback and reducing negative feedback for industrial staff. Findings suggest that managers should pay particular attention to support and feedback for employees during periods of chronic occupational stress following organizational restructuring.     

The Danish psychosocial work environment and symptoms of stress: the main, mediating and moderating role of sense of coherence

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the main, mediating and moderating role of sense of coherence (SOC) on stress symptoms and on the association between perceived psychosocial work environment and stress symptoms. The sample includes 2053 Danish employees from 52 workplaces. Hierarchical regression models were applied for each measure of stress. The results strongly supported the presence of a main effect for SOC. People with high levels of SOC experienced fewer stress symptoms. A mediating effect of SOC was also supported. Thus, SOC in part explained the association between work environment and stress symptoms. In addition, some support for a moderating effect of SOC was found, suggesting that people with higher SOC coped more efficiently with work environmental strain that people with lower SOC. Taken together the regression models explained 11-32% of the variance in stress symptoms. The results suggest that measures of individual factors such as SOC should be included in analyses of the effects of work environmental factors on stress and well-being.     

Control at work: a generalized resource factor for the prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms?

During the last two decades two potent groups of predictors for work-related musculoskeletal problems have been identified: physical work load and poor psychosocial working conditions. However, little is known about their combined effects. In this study the buffering effect of control at work with respect to the negative effects of psychological demands and physical work load on musculoskeletal problems is examined. All study variables were sampled from 431 people working in geriatric nursing homes in Germany by means of questionnaires. Main effects and interactions were tested with multiple regression analysis. The results showed that control buffered the effects of high psychological demands, but not of high physical work load; the buffering effect of control was observed only when physical work load was low. The combined effects of demands and physical work load were over-additive. Thus, the power of different predictors for musculoskeletal symptoms depended on the level of other predictors. This suggests that the efficiency of certain strategies for the prevention of musculoskeletal problems is likely to depend on the level of risk factors, with different strategies being appropriate for different levels of risk.