基于董事会治理因素的财务危机预警模型的构建

企业在经营过程中存在着越来越多的财务风险,为了防止这些风险演变为财务危机,及时进行财务危机预警分析,就需要理顺公司的治理结构,引入董事会治理因素来完善财务危机预警机制.以120家上市公司为研究对象,分别运用非参数检验、T检验以及主成分分析对财务变量和董事会治理变量进行筛选,进而运用Logistic回归分析构建预警模型.结果显示,未引入董事会治理变量的模型的预测正确率为92.5%,而引入董事会治理变量的模型预测正确率为94.15%,预警能力明显增强,也说明,董事会治理因素是影响公司财务危机的一个重要方面.     

Incorporating textual and management factors into financial distress prediction: A comparative study of machine learning methods

Financial distress prediction (FDP) has been widely considered as a promising approach to reducing financial losses. While financial information comprises the traditional factors involved in FDP, nonfinancial factors have also been examined in recent studies. In light of this, the purpose of this study is to explore the integrated factors and multiple models that can improve the predictive performance of FDP models. This study proposes an FDP framework to reveal the financial distress features of listed Chinese companies, incorporating financial, management, and textual factors, and evaluating the prediction performance of multiple models in different time spans. To develop this framework, this study employs the wrapper-based feature selection method to extract valuable features, and then constructs multiple single classifiers, ensemble classifiers, and deep learning models in order to predict financial distress. The experiment results indicate that management and textual factors can supplement traditional financial factors in FDP, especially textual ones. This study also discovers that integrated factors collected 4 years prior to the predicted benchmark year enable a more accurate prediction, and the ensemble classifiers and deep learning models developed can achieve satisfactory FDP performance. This study makes a novel contribution as it expands the predictive factors of financial distress and provides new findings that can have important implications for providing early warning signals of financial risk.     

基于融资约束的投资时机与债务规模

研究了融资约束模式下的中小企业投资时机和融资规模。利用风险中性定价方法给出了公司债券、股权、公司价值和担保成本定价的显式解;确定了投资时机与债务规模的函数关系;解释了担保换股权融资模式的优势。数值分析结果表明：投资触发水平随融资规模先减后增呈U型变化;被担保的公司价值大于股权融资的公司价值。随着风险的增大,两价值之差越来越小。比较静态分析也表明,担保换股权使得公司价值增加,投资被加速。     

不同主导力量下供应商减排投资的谎报与协调策略

在碳交易政策下的两级低碳供应链中,针对供应商可能利用私有成本信息增加自身利润损害零售商和供应链绩效的问题,探讨供应商投资减排后不同主导力量下供应商的成本信息谎报行为和供应链协调策略。研究发现,供应链主导力量对供应链利润在供应链成员间的分配、供应链的整体绩效和供应商的最优成本谎报策略均有影响。供应商主导型供应链中,供应商不会谎报其成本信息;零售商主导型供应链中,供应商在一定条件下会采取相应的谎报策略以使自身利润最大化,影响减排量、低碳产品零售价格以及零售商和供应链的绩效等。因此,设计一种固定减排量下依赖于批发价格的线性补贴惩罚机制进行协调。在合适的契约参数设置下,此机制在激励供应商反馈真实成本信息的同时能够实现低碳供应链的完美协调,且能将供应链利润在零售商和供应商之间进行自由划分。最后,通过数值分析对结论进行验证并探讨了谎报因子与零售商和供应商利润的关系。     

Short‐term salmon price forecasting

This study establishes a benchmark for short‐term salmon price forecasting. The weekly spot price of Norwegian farmed Atlantic salmon is predicted 1–5 weeks ahead using data from 2007 to 2014. Sixteen alternative forecasting methods are considered, ranging from classical time series models to customized machine learning techniques to salmon futures prices. The best predictions are delivered by k‐nearest neighbors method for 1 week ahead; vector error correction model estimated using elastic net regularization for 2 and 3 weeks ahead; and futures prices for 4 and 5 weeks ahead. While the nominal gains in forecast accuracy over a naïve benchmark are small, the economic value of the forecasts is considerable. Using a simple trading strategy for timing the sales based on price forecasts could increase the net profit of a salmon farmer by around 7%.     

A Neuro‐wavelet Model for the Short‐Term Forecasting of High‐Frequency Time Series of Stock Returns

We propose a wavelet neural network (neuro‐wavelet) model for the short‐term forecast of stock returns from high‐frequency financial data. The proposed hybrid model combines the capability of wavelets and neural networks to capture non‐stationary nonlinear attributes embedded in financial time series. A comparison study was performed on the predictive power of two econometric models and four recurrent neural network topologies. Several statistical measures were applied to the predictions and standard errors to evaluate the performance of all models. A Jordan net that used as input the coefficients resulting from a non‐decimated wavelet‐based multi‐resolution decomposition of an exogenous signal showed a consistent superior forecasting performance. Reasonable forecasting accuracy for the one‐, three‐ and five step‐ahead horizons was achieved by the proposed model. The procedure used to build the neuro‐wavelet model is reusable and can be applied to any high‐frequency financial series to specify the model characteristics associated with that particular series. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

不确定条件下纵向研发合作的投资决策研究

针对一个存在两个上游企业和两个下游企业的双层市场结构,对上下游企业实施纵向研发合作策略下的产量和利润进行了研究。并考虑了研发固有的不确定性和溢出效应的影响,从企业是否进行研发以及进行多大程度的研发两个方面,研究上下游企业实施纵向研发合作的投资决策。并在此基础上,探讨了企业研发成本分担比例和违约赔偿。     

Forecasting the Daily Time‐Varying Beta of European Banks During the Crisis Period: Comparison Between GARCH Models and the Kalman Filter

This intention of this paper is to empirically forecast the daily betas of a few European banks by means of four generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models and the Kalman filter method during the pre‐global financial crisis period and the crisis period. The four GARCH models employed are BEKK GARCH, DCC GARCH, DCC‐MIDAS GARCH and Gaussian‐copula GARCH. The data consist of daily stock prices from 2001 to 2013 from two large banks each from Austria, Belgium, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. We apply the rolling forecasting method and the model confidence sets (MCS) to compare the daily forecasting ability of the five models during one month of the pre‐crisis (January 2007) and the crisis (January 2013) periods. Based on the MCS results, the BEKK proves the best model in the January 2007 period, and the Kalman filter overly outperforms the other models during the January 2013 period. Results have implications regarding the choice of model during different periods by practitioners and academics. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The US Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate: Structural Modeling and Forecasting During the Recent Financial Crises

The paper investigates the determinants of the US dollar/euro within the framework of the asset pricing theory of exchange rate determination, which posits that current exchange rate fluctuations are determined by the entire path of current and future revisions in expectations about fundamentals. In this perspective, we innovate by conditioning on Fama–French and Carhart risk factors, which directly measures changing market expectations about the economic outlook, on new financial condition indexes and macroeconomic variables. The macro‐finance augmented econometric model has a remarkable in‐sample and out‐of‐sample predictive ability, largely outperforming a standard autoregressive specification. We also document a stable relationship between the US dollar/euro Carhart momentum conditional correlation (CCW) and the euro area business cycle. CCW signals a progressive weakening in economic conditions since June 2014, consistent with the scattered recovery from the sovereign debt crisis and the new Greek solvency crisis exploded in late spring/early summer 2015. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

欧美股票市场对我国股票市场的传染效应研究——基于次贷与欧债危机背景

近年来,金融危机频频爆发且易表现出传染性,这使得金融传染引起国内外学者的高度关注.本文选取合适的动态条件相关模型研究欧美市场与A股、港股市场的条件相关性,结合内生多重结构突变模型与T检验方法划分危机传染期与平稳期,选用考虑外部影响的CCK模型研究A股、港股市场的羊群行为,随后,引入收益率分散度指标,研究两次危机的羊群行为传染渠道.研究结果表明:港股市场受两次危机传染的速度均快于A股市场,受传染的持续时间均长于A股市场,但受传染的程度均弱于A股市场:次贷危机传染程度强于欧债危机的传染程度,但传染的持续时间短于欧债危机:羊群行为传染渠道是两次危机对A股、港股市场的传染渠道之一.