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This paper analyzes the consequences of the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi for the global monetary system … moderate the perceived need for insurance, and China would have to loom large in both solutions. …
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, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the … renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting a large influence on exchange rate and monetary policies in the … global financial crisis. These results are consistent with China’s dominance hypothesis and with the view that the …
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We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancing mechanims in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without commitment, competition plays no role. Trust does play a role but requires a...
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We study how competition from privately-supplied currency substitutes affects monetary equilibria. Whenever currency is inefficiently provided, inside money competition plays a disciplinary role by providing an upper bound on equilibrium inflation rates. Furthermore, if ‘inside monies’ can...
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In the face of huge balance of payments surpluses and internal inflationary pressures, China has been in a classic … conflict between internal and external balance under its dollar currency peg. Over the longer term, China’s large, modernizing …
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China and its other trading partners manipulate their exchange rates, and (b) the nature of the Chinese exchange rate regime … bilateral deficit, though other variables also turn out to be quite important. On the issue of China's de facto exchange rate …
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This paper studies the geography of wealth transfers during the 2008 global financial crisis. We construct valuation changes on bilateral external positions in equity, direct investment and portfolio debt at the height of the crisis to map who benefited and who lost on their external exposure....
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We present new evidence on the currency composition of foreign exchange reserves in the 1920s and 1930s. Contrary to the presumption that the pound sterling continued to dominate the U.S. dollar in central bank reserves until after World War II, we show that the dollar first overtook sterling in...
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China was the largest economy in the world before the end of the 19th century; then became one of the poorest countries … in the world in a few decades. Now China is returning to its historical past. To understand China’s development, and to … understand where and how far China will move forward, this paper examines how its institution functioning. …
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that …. This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi vis-à-vis the USD from …. Simulations incorporating these microeconomic findings reveal that a substantial revaluation of the renminbi would result in a …
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