{"title":"Money Supply, Inflation and Economic Growth in China: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach","authors":"Cheng-Wen Lee, Haozhe Yu","doi":"10.47260/jafb/1115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47260/jafb/1115","url":null,"abstract":"The empirical analysis applies the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to investigate the relationship between money supply, inflation and economic growth in China with the time series data from 1980 to 2018, estimate the cointegration of monetary and economic growth in long-run relationship and uses vector error correction model to determine the short-run adjustment between the variables. The research showed that the increase in national income met people's demand for goods and eased inflationary pressures. The results support the view of monetarism and help the government formulate economic policies in a prudent manner to control inflation in China.\u0000JEL classification numbers: A10, E52, P44\u0000Keywords: ARDL bounds test, Long-Run, Monetary Neutrality.","PeriodicalId":371149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Finance and Banking","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123595009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Standard or Sustainable - Which Offers Better Performance for the Passive Investor","authors":"Daniel Khajenouri, Jacob H Schmidt","doi":"10.47260/jafb/1114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47260/jafb/1114","url":null,"abstract":"This research report studies the risk-adjusted performance of the major international\u0000equity indices against their ESG screened equivalents (MSCI World, MSCI USA,\u0000MSCI Emerging Markets, and MSCI Europe). The daily closing prices, returns,\u0000standard deviations, and Sharpe ratio characteristics are analyzed from 2013 to 2020.\u0000The current literature available from highly rated journals on the subject is also\u0000considered, which provided mixed results on the subject matter. We found no\u0000academic papers focusing specifically on analyzing the performance of indices and\u0000their ESG screened equivalents. With this paper, we intend to fill this gap in the\u0000current research available.\u0000We conclude that for the passive investor, choosing ESG screened indices over the\u0000conventional equivalent has consistently provided better risk-adjusted returns over\u0000the long-term period. These findings are robust with the consistently higher Sharpe\u0000ratios over the eight-year period for each index. We predict ESG investments may\u0000continue to outperform due to changing retail and institutional investor preferences.\u0000Keywords: Sustainable, Passive, Investment, ESG, Asset, Management, Wealth","PeriodicalId":371149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Finance and Banking","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117119308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis on Bank Credit and Industrial Structure Upgrading of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei\u0000Region-Based on Technological Innovation Mode","authors":"Qinglu Yuan, Huan Zhou","doi":"10.47260/JAFB/1111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47260/JAFB/1111","url":null,"abstract":"Facing different technological innovation mode, there is a significant difference in\u0000the industrial structure effect of bank credit, this would have important research\u0000significance for technological innovation mode selection in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei\u0000Region. Based on the data of 43 cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region for the\u0000period of 2009-2016, this paper builds a panel threshold model to analysis the\u0000industrial structure effect of bank credit. The result shows that: bank credit has a\u0000nonlinear industrial structure effect in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region under the\u0000current level of economic development. The impetus for indigenous innovation\u0000plays a sustained and significant boosting role in it, and it promote to resources\u0000translocation from secondary industry to tertiary industry. However, the technology\u0000import is gradually lost, even becomes negative effect. The policy suggestion is:\u0000firstly, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region needs to increase introduction of high\u0000quality technology, in order to raise the level of technological innovation. Secondly,\u0000the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region needs to adhere to the development strategy of\u0000indigenous innovation, in order to promote the upgrading of the industrial structure.","PeriodicalId":371149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Finance and Banking","volume":"283 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134456812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}