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On 19 June 2010 the Chinese authorities announced that the renminbi (RMB) was henceforth to be pegged to a currency … Seoul Summit on 11-12 November 2010, China committed to further reform the RMB exchange rate regime. We discuss here what a … genuine basket peg could mean for China, with the view that the weight for the EUR should obviously be significantly increased …
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On 21 July 2005 China adopted an undisclosed basket exchange rate regime. We formally assess and envisage the gradual … evolution of the renminbi over time. We utilize nonlinear dependencies in the renminbi exchange rate and describe the smooth … transition of the renminbi/U.S. dollar (RMB/USD) exchange rate using the family of time-varying autoregressive (TV-AR) models …
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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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We use the Kalman filter to estimate the structure of the secret currency basket of the renminbi based on daily data …
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recommended by Zhou Xiaochuan, head of the People’s Bank of China. To avoid rapid forgetting of havoc from isolationist clean …
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This paper analyzes the optimal transition of the exchange rate regime in the People's Republic of China (PRC). How the …
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euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi … global financial crisis. These results are consistent with China’s dominance hypothesis and with the view that the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China’s currency movements are to some extent …
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The paper explores the interaction between debt crises and devaluation. Since the optimal level of devaluation in a crisis depends on the level of debt that has to be serviced, a default makes a devaluation less likely. Expected devaluation depends thus on expectations about default which is...
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The paper reviews exchange rate options for Mercosur countries. We start from the observation that most of the countries in the region have a longstanding tendency to adopt fixed exchange rates, and ask how such a system could best be designed. The Argentine crisis has demonstrated that...
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How does international financial integration affect national price levels? To analyze this question, this paper formulates a two-country open economy sticky-price model under either segmented or complete asset markets. It is shown that the effect of financial integration, i.e. moving from...
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