融资约束、债务融资能力与股票定价——对高融资约束公司高系统风险的进一步解释

在考察债务融资能力对融资约束公司投资敏感性影响的基础上,探析债务融资能力对股票定价的影响。理论与实证分析结果表明,对于受到较高融资约束的公司,债务融资能力的提高显著增加了公司的投资—现金流敏感性,且高债务融资能力的公司具有较高的系统风险和预期收益。这是由于信贷限制、公司投资和公司价值之间的动态传导机制形成的“乘数”效应,使得融资约束较高的公司具有更强烈的顺周期性,在股票市场中则表现为系统性风险的提高。     

Female Employment and Divorce: Taking Into Account a Social Multiplier

A model of interactions of marriage and labor markets, taking into account a feedback process from aggregate divorce rates on individuals' decisions, explains why small changes in men's attitudes towards sharing the breadwinner role with their wives may change female labor force participation rates and divorce rates considerably.     

空间动态面板模型的时间滞后效应检验

空间面板数据模型由于考虑了经济变量间的空间相关性,其优势日益凸显,已成为计量经济学的热点研究领域。将空间相关性与动态模式同时扩展到面板模型中的空间动态面板模型,不仅考虑了经济变量之间的空间相关性,还考虑了时间上的滞后性,是空间面板模型的发展,增强了模型的解释力。考虑一种带固定个体效应、因变量的时间滞后项、因变量与随机误差项均存在空间自相关性的空间动态面板回归模型,提出了在个体数n和时间数T都很大,且T相对地大于n的条件下空间动态面板模型中时间滞后效应存在性的LM和LR检验方法,其检验方法包括联合检验、一维及二维的边际和条件检验;推导出这些检验在零假设下的极限分布;其极限分布均服从卡方分布。通过模拟试验研究检验统计量的小样本性质,结果显示其具有优良的统计性质。     

AN EXTENSION OF THE EM ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF CONSTRAINED LIKELIHOOD: AN APPLICATION IN TOXICOLOGY

Since its introduction in the mid 1970's, the EM algorithm has found a widespread popularity for solving the likelihood equations. Several investigators have used the algorithm in a variety of problems with incomplete information to obtain maximum likelihood estimates in numerous applications. The algorithm, however, becomes inappropriate when the underlying equations are subject to some constraints. Although an extension has been proposed to derive solutions when the parameters are subject to a set of linear constraints, the evaluation of likelihood equations from incomplete data when the equations are subject to a nonlinear constraint is still an open problem. Here, we consider a mixture model, a classical example of incomplete data, and discuss the problem of maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters when the parameters have to satisfy a nonlinear constraint. An extension of the EM algorithm based on the celebrated Lagrange multiplier will be proposed to solve the equations. An application of the methodology in animal bioassay experiments for risk assessment of toxic substances will be described and data from a toxicological experiment will be used to illustrate the results.     

Testing for Serial Correlation: Generalized Andrews–Ploberger Tests

This paper considers testing the null hypothesis that a times series is uncorrelated when the time series is uncorrelated but statistically dependent. This case is of interest in economic and finance applications. The GARCH(1, 1) model is a leading example of a model that generates serially uncorrelated but statistically dependent data. The tests of serial correlation introduced by Andrews and Ploberger (1996, hereafter AP) are generalized for the purpose of testing the null. The rationale for generalizing the AP tests is that they have attractive properties for cases for which they were originally designed: they are consistent against all nonwhite-noise alternatives and have good all-round power against nonseasonal alternatives compared to several widely used tests in the literature. These properties are inherited by the generalized AP tests.     

Tests for Serial Dependence and Other Specification Analysis in Models of Markets in Disequilibrium

The assumption of serial independence of disturbances is the starting point of most of the work done on analyzing market disequilibrium models. We derive tests for serial dependence given normality and homoscedasticity using the Lagrange multiplier (LM) test principle. Although the likelihood function under serial dependence is very complicated and involves multiple integrals of dimensions equal to the sample size, the test statistic we obtain through the LM principle is very simple. We apply the test to the housing-start data of Fair and Jaffee (1972) and study its finite sample properties through simulation. The test seems to perform quite well in finite samples in terms of size and power. We present an analysis of disequilibrium models that assumes that the disturbances are logistic rather than normal. The relative performances of these distributions are investigated by simulation.     

The effects of outliers on two nonlinearity tests

Two Lagrange multiplier tests for time series nonlinearities in the presence of outliers are examined by simulation experiments. The nonlinearities studied are autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) and bilinearity; the outlier types are additive, innovative, temporary change and reallocation outliers. The results show that both the sizes and powers of the tests can be severely distorted by even a single outlier. The severity of the distortions depends on the outlier type and magnitude, but also on the underlying process generating 'the series.     

社会核算矩阵不同更新方法的比较研究

更新社会核算矩阵(Social Accounting Matrix, SAM)作为一种非调查技术一直受到普遍重视。本文用十种更新方法,包括RAS法、交叉熵法、广义交叉熵法等,以江苏省1997年的宏观和细化SAM为初始表,将其分别更新到2002年的宏观和细化SAM。我们通过保号检验、方向检验和接近程度检验比较了各种方法的更新结果。研究结论显示：第一,基于商的更新方法要优于基于距离的更新方法;第二,保号类方法不仅具有保号的功能,而且在方向检验和接近度检验中有着良好表现;第三,对某些重要系数采用适当的外生估算方式,可以提高SAM更新的精度。     

ECM模型短期动态系数与协整模型长期均衡系数不一致性研究

研究了ECM模型中短期动态系数和协整模型中长期均衡系数之间的不一致性。根据协整理论,因变量的变化可以分解为基本面的变化和暂时性的噪声成分,短期动态系数由此产生。然而变量的差分减小了基本面的影响,同时提升了噪声对真实经济关系的扭曲。短期动态系数的推导过程进一步表明,噪声是造成短期动态系数小于长期均衡系数的原因。因变量变化越大,噪声的影响越小。国内外铜期货市场整合检验的实证结果与理论分析的预测相一致,实证结果同时显示,误差修正项的引入对短期动态系数的估计没有显著影响;当因变量变化巨大时,短期动态系数接近于长期均衡系数。