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The emergence and spatial distribution of Chinese seaport cities
Funke, Michael; Yu, Hao - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2011
Seaports have historically played a key role in facilitating trade and growth. This paper is the first attempt in the literature to analyse the formation of Chinese seaport cities and the dynamics that drives it. First, we aim to identify theoretically the emergence of urbanized seaports with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856694
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China's Exchange Rate and Financial Repression: The Conflicted Emergence of the Renminbi as an International Currency
McKinnon, Ronald Ian; Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2014
China has been provoked into speeding renmnibi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial … could attract even more hot money inflows, the People’s Bank of China should focus on tightly stabilizing the yuan/ dollar … exchange rate to encourage naturally high wage increases for balancing China’s international competitiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877868
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Volatility dependence across Asia-Pacific on-shore and off-shore U.S. dollar futures markets
Colavecchio, Roberta; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2007
displays considerable persistence. Our analysis provides evidence that the knock-on effects from China´s U.S. dollar future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247756
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Taking the Temperature - Forecasting GDP Growth for Mainland China
Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2006
We present a new composite leading indicator of economic activity in mainland China, estimated using a dynamic factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823523
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Economic Growth across Space and Time: subprovincial Evidence from Mainland China
Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael; Wang, Jue - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2007
We present a new composite leading indicator of economic activity in mainland China, estimated using a dynamic factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823531
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Volatility Transmission between Renminbi and Asia-Pacific on-shore and off-shore U.S. dollar futures
Colavecchio, Roberta; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2008
This paper uses multivariate GARCH techniques to study volatility spillovers between the Chinese non-deliverable forward market and seven of its Asia-Pacific counterparts over the period January 1998 to March 2005. To account for the time-variability of conditional correlation, a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823534
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The undisclosed Renminbi Basket: are the markets telling us something about where the Renminbi - US Dollar Exchange Rate is going?
Gronwald, Marc; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2008
On 21 July 2005 China adopted an undisclosed basket exchange rate regime. We formally assess and envisage the gradual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823536
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China’s Exchange Rate and International Adjustment in Wages, Prices, and Interest Rates: Japan Déjà Vu?
McKinnon, Ronald Ian; Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2006
China keeps its exchange rate tightly fixed to the dollar. Its productivity growth and trade surplus have been high … reduce China’s trade surplus but could cause serious deflation in China. To show this, we consider international adjustment … between China and the United States from both an asset-market and a labor-market perspective, and compare this to Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765836
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The Undisclosed Renminbi Basket: Are the Markets Telling us something about where the Renminbi – US Dollar Exchange Rate is Going?
Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - CESifo - 2008
On 21 July 2005 China adopted an undisclosed basket exchange rate regime. We formally assess and envisage the gradual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765921
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Trade, product variety and welfare: a quantitative assessment for mainland China
Ruhwedel, Ralf; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2008
We calculate a variety of welfare gains for Mainland China, following the approach of Romer (1994), who emphasized that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582259