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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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This Paper reviews the controversy over China’s exchange rate regime. Placing the issue in the context of the … literature on exit strategies, it argues that now is the best time for China to exit from its peg. Moving to a managed float …
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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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The results of this paper complement the recent findings of real exchange rates as stationary processes. The standard procedure of applying a battery of unit root tests can be problematic since the tests are sensitive to the specifics of the time-series process. The novelty of the approach we...
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This paper presents a compact derivation of the determinants of changes in the equilibrium real exchange rate (the price index of non-traded goods relative to traded goods) in a small open economy with any number of goods and factors. It is shown that the change in the real exchange rate equals...
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We show the importance of a dynamic aggregation bias in accounting for the PPP puzzle. We prove that established time-series and panel methods substantially exaggerate the persistence of real exchange rates because of heterogeneity in the dynamics of disaggregated relative prices. When...
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Conventional PPP-adjusted real output measures, invaluable for making international comparisons of living standards, may greatly exaggerate the productive capacity of poor countries. The equilibrium prices of an hypothetical world of full economic integration provide an instructive basis for...
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We assess the progress made by the profession in understanding real exchange rate behaviour, through a selective and critical but nonetheless expository review of the literature. Our reading of the literature leads us to the main conclusions that purchasing power parity might be viewed as a...
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