Social–financial approach for analyzing financial transitions

This study proposes a social-financial approach(SFA)to fill the methodological research gap in strategic policy design for managing financial transitions during social changes.The SFA seeks to characterize inclusive transitions in response to innovation and analyze financial management in social changes.Using a multilevel perspective,we combine evolutionary finance and inclusive growth analytics into this framework.We contend that the interaction between the different levels can be summarized as spontaneous adjustments and the alignment of financial elements with the indicators.Actors who attempt to achieve their goals based on past performance evaluations and other forms of bounded rationality strive to cope with adjustments and further trigger a reorientation of the existing regime.We also developed a new configuration tool called the three-axis description to describe the evolution of financial transitions at different stages.These methods allow us to analyze the evolution of financial transition and efficiency,and we argue that market efficiency evolves in stages with the finan-cial transition.Finally,to demonstrate the capability of SFA to identify diverse financial transition pathways,we examined an example case:the establishment of the Bretton Woods System.

Pathway-dependency of Chinese Financial System Transition and Financing Difficulties of Private Business

Under the present situation of dramatic change of the national income distribution pattern, the dominant economy of our progressive reform has made a rapid change from the past government-direct-financing type to the present bank-indirect-financing type. In order to replace the function of government- investment in the state-owned economy, the direct and indirect financing channel of the process of our financial system transition has an obvious preference for its ownership system, and the small and medium-sized financial institutions matching with private business are in a weak state due to the constraints of system supply, these two factors result in the extreme asymmetric between the financial structure and economical structure. A major part of the financial resources are invested in those inefficient state-owned business, which involve the Private business into a difficult position of financing, and the whole financial system transition moves towards the factual pathway-dependency due to the system defect, accordingly the finance resources allocation enter into a system lock state with rather low efficiency, so it calls for some related system innovation to correct its pathway derivation.