At a summit meeting in December 2011, China and Japan agreed to improve cooperation on developing their financial markets. The agreement covers the settlement of cross-border trade and investment using the two currencies, the direct exchange of the two currencies, the purchase of Chinese...

The aim of the study is to investigate the behaviour of the Chinese government bond yield curve before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its methodology comprises the techniques of time series analysis, correlation analysis and dimensionality reduction. The main empirical results show that in...

We present three in-detail quantitative trading ideas for equity markets in China and Japan. First idea discusses the emerging 50 ETF option markets in China and the feasibility of a covered call strategy. Second idea evaluates the opportunities implied by the ETF purchase program of Bank of...

Administrative factors permeate the Chinese financial market. This study provides an insight into the emerging government-dominated IPO market. Using up-to-date data from 520 listed firms and 140 rejected IPO applicants in the Chinese stock market over 2006 to 2012, this study, based on prior...

This paper examines investors' trading behaviors in Chinese stock markets by studying five stock indices that cover Chinese common stocks in three stock exchanges — Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. Our empirical results suggest that there exists a significant positive feedback trading effect...

In November 2008, China announced a RMB4trn package of economic stimulus measures that also dealt with how it would be funded. As a result, in March 2009, the National People's Congress (China's parliament), with the approval of the central government, authorized the Ministry of Finance to issue...

The aim of this paper is to review China's institutional reforms and consequent development of Chinese corporate governance system and financial system. As part of the wider economic reform initiated since the late 1970s, the Chinese government has adopted various measures aimed at reforming...

Compared with China's dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood. Over the past decades, China has exported record amounts of capital to the rest of the world. Many of these financial flows are not reported to the IMF, the BIS or the World...

Compared with China's pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper studies the size, characteristics, and determinants of China's capital exports building a new database of 5000 loans and grants to 152 countries, 1949-2017. We find that 50% of...

China's lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China's loans, also the associated defaults remain 'hidden', as missed payments and restructuring details are not disclosed. We construct an encompassing dataset of sovereign...