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A Study on Central Banks and Social Responsibility: the Case of the ESCB 中央银行与社会责任研究:以欧洲中央银行为例
IF 2.6 Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad010
Raffaele Felicetti
Can and should central banks have a social responsibility (‘central banks’ social responsibility’—CBSR) to play a role in social issues, such as economic inequality? This article provides a conceptual account and analysis of the benefits and challenges associated with CBSR. After showing that CBSR is gaining momentum through the pull of influential actors including central banks themselves, policy-makers, and public opinion, I discuss two types of CBSR the European Central Bank (ECB) could engage in. The moderate approach involves action based on the primary mandate, whereas use of the secondary mandate would present an enlarged version of CBSR. While action based on the primary mandate is both legally possible and desirable, the ‘powered’ version of CBSR comes with significant legal hurdles. Absent clear prioritization by the Union’s political institutions of certain economic policies and objectives, selection and prioritization by the ECB of one or more policies would risk opening the floodgates to policy-making. The enlarged version of CBSR is also undesirable, as it would make the scrutiny of the ECB’s activity more challenging for the European Parliament, negatively alter the public trust the ECB enjoys, and heighten the risk of friction within the European System of Central Banks.
中央银行是否应该承担社会责任(“中央银行的社会责任”-CBSR),在经济不平等等社会问题上发挥作用?本文提供了与CBSR相关的好处和挑战的概念说明和分析。在展示了CBSR正在通过包括中央银行本身、政策制定者和公众舆论在内的有影响力的行动者的拉动而获得动力之后,我讨论了欧洲央行(ECB)可以参与的两种类型的CBSR。温和的办法是根据主要任务采取行动,而使用次要任务则是扩大了的安全与社会责任。虽然基于主要授权的行动在法律上是可能的,也是可取的,但CBSR的“动力”版本面临着重大的法律障碍。如果欧盟的政治机构对某些经济政策和目标没有明确的优先顺序,欧洲央行对一项或多项政策的选择和优先顺序可能会打开政策制定的闸门。扩大版的CBSR也是不可取的,因为它将使欧洲议会对欧洲央行活动的审查更具挑战性,对欧洲央行享有的公众信任产生负面影响,并增加欧洲央行体系内部摩擦的风险。
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‘Nobody Is Proud of Soft Dollars’: the Impact of MiFID II on US Financial Markets “没有人对软美元感到骄傲”:MiFID II对美国金融市场的影响
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad007
Howell E Jackson, Jeffery Y Zhang
Abstract Scholars and policy makers have long debated whether securities firms should be allowed to bundle the cost of execution services with the cost of research. Investor advocates condemn the practice whereas industry representatives defend it. In 2018, as part of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) legislative regime, the EU forced the unbundling of commission charges, diverging from US legal standards which still allow ‘soft dollar’ payments for research. The EU’s unbundling regime has challenged global financial services firms, which must now comply with conflicting rules across national boundaries. For more than five years, the US Securities and Exchange Commission provided temporary no-action relief to facilitate compliance with MiFID II, but that relief expired in July 2023, presenting an opportunity to reconsider the impact of MiFID II’s unbundling regime and its implications for US regulators and investors. While this article takes a critical view of soft dollar practices, the story of MiFID II presents contested issues of policy analysis as the agency costs inherent in bundled commissions could be offset by the public benefits of additional research. Unbundling also offers a noteworthy example of an innovation in capital markets regulation flowing from Europe to the United States rather than the other way around.
长期以来,学者和政策制定者一直在争论是否应该允许证券公司将执行服务的成本与研究成本捆绑在一起。投资者倡导者谴责这种做法,而行业代表则为其辩护。2018年,作为《金融工具市场指令II》(MiFID II)立法制度的一部分,欧盟强制取消了佣金收费,这与美国仍然允许“软美元”支付研究费用的法律标准有所不同。欧盟的分拆制度对全球金融服务公司构成了挑战,它们现在必须遵守跨越国界的相互冲突的规则。五年多来,美国证券交易委员会提供了临时的无行动救济,以促进对MiFID II的遵守,但该救济于2023年7月到期,这为重新考虑MiFID II拆分制度的影响及其对美国监管机构和投资者的影响提供了机会。虽然本文对软美元做法持批判观点,但MiFID II的故事提出了有争议的政策分析问题,因为捆绑佣金固有的代理成本可以被额外研究的公共利益所抵消。分拆还提供了一个值得注意的例子,说明资本市场监管的创新是从欧洲流向美国,而不是反过来。
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Risk, Contract Terms, and Maturity in the Sovereign Debt Market 主权债务市场的风险、合同条款和期限
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad009
Michael Bradley, Irving Arturo De Lira Salvatierra, Mitu Gulati, Ugo Panizza
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine the relations between risk, the choice of foreign or local contract terms (parameters), and maturity in the sovereign debt market. Our primary finding is that the maturities of bonds that carry a meaningful degree of risk are greater when the bonds are written under foreign parameters. This finding is consistent with the Credible Commitment Theory. Relinquishing certain key contractual parameters (governing law, jurisdiction, currency, listing) precludes the issuing sovereign from taking actions that would diminish the wealth of its bondholders after the bonds have been issued. Correspondingly, the yield on lower-grade bonds, written under foreign parameters, is less than the yield on bonds written under local parameters. Investors are willing to pay a premium for lower-grade bonds if they are written in foreign parameters. Finally, we find a positive relation between maturity and S&P ratings for the subsample of lower-grade bonds. However, we find no such relation for the subset of high-grade bonds.
在本文中,我们研究了主权债务市场中风险、外国或本地合同条款(参数)的选择和期限之间的关系。我们的主要发现是,当债券在外国参数下书写时,具有有意义风险程度的债券的到期日更大。这一发现与可信承诺理论相一致。放弃某些关键的合同参数(管辖法律、管辖权、货币、上市)可以防止发行主权国家在债券发行后采取减少其债券持有人财富的行动。相应地,在国外参数下编写的较低等级债券的收益率小于在本地参数下编写的债券的收益率。投资者愿意为低等级债券支付溢价,如果这些债券是以外国参数写成的。最后,我们发现对于低评级债券的子样本,期限与标准普尔评级之间存在正相关关系。然而,我们发现对于高等级债券子集没有这种关系。
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Data Access Technologies and the ‘New Governance’ Techniques of Financial Regulation 数据访问技术和金融监管的“新治理”技术
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad008
David McNulty, Andrea Miglionico, Alistair Milne
Abstract Modern data and information technologies are having a profound impact on financial services and opening new frontiers in regulation. This article explores the opportunities for using modern tools of data access and sharing to embed regulatory objectives within the management and decision-making processes of financial firms. This can enhance oversight of prudential and conduct risks as well as substantially lowering compliance costs. It can also help address the information imbalances that limit the effectiveness of older approaches in which the firm is a ‘black box’ that can only be externally supervised. The central challenge is establishing an appropriate governance of data in regulated firms to ensure the achievement of both regulatory and business objectives. Such an approach can be viewed as a further and more radical development of established ‘new governance’ techniques of financial regulation.
现代数据和信息技术正在对金融服务产生深远的影响,并在监管方面开辟了新的领域。本文探讨了利用现代数据访问和共享工具在金融公司的管理和决策过程中嵌入监管目标的机会。这可以加强对审慎和行为风险的监督,并大大降低合规成本。它还可以帮助解决信息不平衡的问题,这种不平衡限制了旧方法的有效性,在旧方法中,公司是一个只能由外部监督的“黑匣子”。核心挑战是在受监管的公司中建立适当的数据治理,以确保实现监管和业务目标。这种方法可以被视为对已建立的金融监管“新治理”技术的进一步和更激进的发展。
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The Systemic Risk Council in Denmark: Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses 丹麦系统风险委员会:评估优势和劣势
IF 2.6 Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad006
S. Jensen, Thomas Sangill
Like similar bodies in several other countries, the Systemic Risk Council in Denmark was established in response to the global financial crisis. This article first outlines the Council’s design and performance, and then discusses the need for changes to the Council’s remit, governance, powers, and communication with the public. While the design of systemic risk councils varies a lot across countries, and without a consensus on what constitutes an optimal design of a macroprudential policy framework, the Danish experience contributes to the literature on what works, and what does not, in relation to managing systemic risks.
与其他几个国家的类似机构一样,丹麦的系统性风险委员会(Systemic Risk Council)是为应对全球金融危机而成立的。本文首先概述了理事会的设计和表现,然后讨论了对理事会的职权范围、治理、权力和与公众沟通进行改革的必要性。虽然系统风险委员会的设计在各国之间差异很大,而且对于什么是宏观审慎政策框架的最佳设计没有共识,但丹麦的经验有助于研究在管理系统风险方面哪些有效,哪些无效。
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Artificial Intelligence Authoring Financial Recommendations: Comparative Australian Evidence 人工智能撰写财务建议:比较澳大利亚证据
IF 2.6 Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad004
Benjamin R. Neilson
This article explores the use of artificial intelligence software to create financial recommendations. It seeks to define the impacts and outline the benefits of using ChatGPT software in the highly regulated Australian financial sector. ChatGPT was asked to create a financial recommendation, which was evaluated against the relevant regulations and the recommendations of existing professionals and market contributors. The data generated was analysed using Qualtrics analysis techniques. The findings suggest that ChatGPT significantly reduces the time required to carry out creation, input, and editing services for simple financial advice recommendations. However, ChatGPT fails to operate effectively with complex financial advice and requires professional guidance to ensure regulatory adherence. In future, it may be possible to develop ChatGPT as a complementary tool to decrease the time and cost required to create financial recommendations.
本文探讨了使用人工智能软件来创建财务建议。它试图定义在严格监管的澳大利亚金融部门使用ChatGPT软件的影响和好处。ChatGPT被要求创建一个财务建议,并根据相关法规和现有专业人员和市场贡献者的建议对其进行评估。生成的数据使用Qualtrics分析技术进行分析。研究结果表明,ChatGPT显著减少了创建、输入和编辑简单金融建议服务所需的时间。然而,ChatGPT在复杂的财务建议下无法有效运作,需要专业指导来确保遵守监管规定。将来,可能会开发ChatGPT作为补充工具,以减少创建财务建议所需的时间和成本。
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Correction to: Badges of Misconduct: Consumer Rules to Avoid Abusive Financial Advisers 更正:不当行为的徽章:避免滥用财务顾问的消费者规则
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad005
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Central Banks and Climate Change: Mission Impossible? 央行与气候变化:不可能完成的任务?
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad003
Jay Cullen
ABSTRACT There is growing presumption that central banks have a significant role to play in addressing environmental challenges, especially climate change. This article explains, on the basis of both theoretical and empirical evidence, that attempting to use existing central bank tools and powers to tackle climate change will prove inadequate to tackle the issue(s) at hand. From a positivist perspective at least—and contrary to the claims made in the literature—the tools that central banks possess are insufficient to make any meaningful contribution to emissions reductions and prevent global heating. This is because many of the proposals made by academics, regulators, and legislators to expand the central bank toolkit to equip banks to tackle climate change suffer from deep conceptual and practical drawbacks when applied in this domain. These critical weaknesses mean that the policy prescriptions that flow from them will be of limited impact; this would likely be the case even if central banks were to obviate their mandates more explicitly and attempt to use such tools to address climate change directly. In so doing, they waste valuable political and economic capital that might be usefully deployed in tackling climate change. The obstacles to using these tools are not political or legal; they are inherent in their operation.
越来越多的人认为,央行在应对环境挑战,尤其是气候变化方面可以发挥重要作用。本文在理论和经验证据的基础上解释说,试图利用现有的中央银行工具和权力来应对气候变化,将被证明不足以解决手头的问题。至少从实证主义的角度来看——与文献中的主张相反——央行拥有的工具不足以对减排和防止全球变暖做出任何有意义的贡献。这是因为学者、监管机构和立法者提出的许多建议,在应用于这一领域时,都存在深刻的概念和实践缺陷,这些建议旨在扩大央行的工具包,使银行具备应对气候变化的能力。这些关键的弱点意味着,它们开出的政策药方影响有限;即使各国央行更明确地放弃自己的职责,并试图利用这些工具直接应对气候变化,情况也可能如此。在这样做的过程中,他们浪费了宝贵的政治和经济资本,而这些资本本可以有效地用于应对气候变化。使用这些工具的障碍不在于政治或法律;它们在它们的操作中是固有的。
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Federal Home Loan Banks and Financial Stability 联邦住房贷款银行和金融稳定
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad002
Stefan Gissler, Borghan Narajabad, Daniel K Tarullo
Abstract The Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs) are the less well-known siblings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Since these government-sponsored enterprises were created in 1932, changes in housing finance markets have rendered largely irrelevant their original purpose of increasing the availability of mortgages. Yet the level and scope of their activities have increased dramatically in recent decades. These activities have at times both exacerbated risks to financial stability and obstructed the missions of federal financial regulators. Behind these undesirable outcomes lies the public/private hybrid nature of the FHLBs. The private ownership and control of the FHLBs provide an incentive to take advantage of the considerable public privileges from which they benefit—including an explicit line of credit from the United States Government and an implied guarantee of all their debt similar to that enjoyed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the Global Financial Crisis. This article examines past incidence and future potential for the FHLBs to amplify financial stability risks. It offers a framework for regulatory reform by the Federal Housing Finance Agency to contain these risks and avoid harmful interference with the activities of other federal regulators.
联邦住房贷款银行(fhlb)是房利美(Fannie Mae)和房地美(Freddie Mac)不太知名的兄弟企业。由于这些政府资助的企业成立于1932年,住房金融市场的变化使其增加抵押贷款可用性的最初目的在很大程度上变得无关重要。然而,近几十年来,它们的活动水平和范围急剧增加。这些活动有时既加剧了金融稳定的风险,也阻碍了联邦金融监管机构的使命。这些不良后果的背后是fhlb的公私混合性质。fhbs的私人所有权和控制权提供了一种动机,促使他们利用大量的公共特权,包括美国政府的明确信贷额度和对其所有债务的隐含担保,这与全球金融危机前房利美和房地美所享有的类似。本文考察了fhlb放大金融稳定风险的过去发生率和未来潜力。它为联邦住房金融局的监管改革提供了一个框架,以遏制这些风险,避免对其他联邦监管机构的活动造成有害干扰。
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International Competitiveness and Financial Regulators’ Mandates: Coming Around Again in the UK 国际竞争力和金融监管机构的任务:在英国再次出现
Q2 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjad001
Eilís Ferran
Abstract Using post-Brexit regulatory freedom to strengthen the financial sector has been seen as a priority for the UK government under the Conservative Party following the 2017 general election. The laying before Parliament of the Financial Services and Markets Bill (July 2022) marked the start of a multi-year process aiming to transform the regulatory framework. Adding a competitiveness and growth secondary objective to regulatory mandates was an important part of the reform agenda set out in the Bill. This article draws on theory (regulatory competition, regulatory procyclicality, and regulatory design) and recent history (post 2008-crisis regulatory reform) to question the wisdom of reinstating international competitiveness in regulatory mandates in this way. The key concern is that this change risks opening the door to an excessively deregulatory agenda and the undermining of regulatory independence. That the new competitiveness and growth objective will be used to advance deregulatory agenda was already becoming evident during 2022 as the UK debated the adaptation and evolution of EU-derived prudential and capital market laws to suit its new situation. Since the competitiveness and growth objective bandwagon may have become unstoppable, the article directs attention to the role of accountability in protecting regulatory independence. Regulators need to be able to resist pressure to lower standards unduly, and an effective system of accountability can support them in doing so.
在2017年大选后,利用脱欧后的监管自由来加强金融部门一直被视为保守党领导下的英国政府的优先事项。《金融服务和市场法案》(2022年7月)提交给议会,标志着旨在改变监管框架的多年进程的开始。将竞争力和增长作为监管任务的次要目标,是该法案规定的改革议程的重要组成部分。本文利用理论(监管竞争、监管顺周期性和监管设计)和近期历史(2008年危机后的监管改革)来质疑以这种方式恢复监管任务中的国际竞争力是否明智。关键的担忧在于,这种变化有可能为过度放松监管议程和破坏监管独立性打开大门。新的竞争力和增长目标将用于推进放松监管议程,这一点在2022年已经变得显而易见,因为英国就欧盟衍生的审慎和资本市场法律的调整和演变进行了辩论,以适应其新形势。由于竞争力和增长目标的潮流可能已经势不可挡,本文将注意力转向问责制在保护监管独立性方面的作用。监管机构需要能够抵制过度降低标准的压力,而一个有效的问责制度可以支持他们这样做。
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