This paper examines how the quantitative easing (QE) policy conducted by Japan, EU and the US raised Hong Kong's real estate prices through activities in carry trade and in Hong Kong's real estate investment trust (H-REIT) market. The empirical results demonstrated two new channels of impact....

By employing a development finance approach, this paper examines the role of domestic savings, foreign resources and monetary aggregates in promoting economic growth in China. A two-equation model incorporating the financial repression paradigm, the structuralist “two gap” analysis, and the...

In addition to privatization, marketization, liberalization and pragmatization, monetization has been argued as the fifth feature in China's economic reform. If monetization is taken to mean a process through which variations in money supply or interest rate are to affect macroeconomic...