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Conventional logic suggests that lowering the policy interest rate will stimulate consumption and investment while discouraging people from saving, but low interest rates may also prompt people to increase their saving to compensate for the low rate of return. Using data on 135 countries from...
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We evaluate whether the Renminbi (RMB) is misaligned, relying upon conventional statistical methods of inference. A framework built around the relationship between relative price and relative output levels is used. We find that, once sampling uncertainty and serial correlation are accounted for,...
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One argument for floating the Chinese renminbi (RMB) is to insulate China's monetary policy from the US effect. However … US dollar, China has alternative measures to retain its policy independence and de-link its interest rates from the US … rate. In other words, the argument for a flexible RMB to insulate China's monetary policy from the US effect is not …
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capital stock is accounted for. Thus, the China-US trade balance should respond to real exchange rate and relative income …
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We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …'s ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China has rolled out a number of initiatives to actively promote the … currency composition of China's international assets and liabilities. These factors include, among others, underlying valuation …
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We study the empirical determinants of China's capital flight. In addition to the covered interest differential, our … regression exercise shows that China's capital flight is quite well explained by its own history and covered interest … differentials. The other possible determinants offer relatively small additional explanatory power. It is also found that China …
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capital stock is accounted for. Thus, the China-US trade balance should respond to real exchange rate and relative income …
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recent polices China instituted to promote the use of the RMB in the global market. The evidence suggests that the RMB is …
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