Blog post
16 October 2014
How tight is China’s monetary policy?
There have been definite signs of monetary loosening in China in recent weeks. Nevertheless, for almost a year, the debate continues to rage over whet
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Blog post
16 October 2014
How loose is China’s monetary policy?
On the contrary, among the major central banks, the PBC appears to have tightened the most since the global financial crisis, on the basis of both ex-
Blog post
16 October 2014
China's financial liberalisation: interest rate deregulation or currency flexibility first?
Part I discusses three institutional factors favouring a strategy of greater currency flexibility ahead of fuller domestic interest rate liberalisatio
Opinion piece
16 October 2014
China gingerly taking the capital account liberalisation path
Since China is the number one trading nation, the second largest economy and a large net creditor, the world has a huge stake in how China manages its
Blog post
14 October 2014
Looking past the (West’s) end of the nose
Following the recent IMF annual meetings, and the coincidental declines in global stock markets, gloom is back about the state of the world economy. W
Working paper
08 October 2014
Developing an underlying inflation gauge for China
This paper develops a new underlying inflation gauge (UIG) for China which differentiates between trend and noise, is available daily and uses a broad
Blog post
08 October 2014
A compelling case for Chinese monetary easing
A successful Chinese economy needs both structural reforms on the supply side to enhance potential growth, and a nimble monetary policy to fully explo
Blog post
30 September 2014
Tweaking China’s loan-deposit ratio rule
In the wake of the latest easing of Chinese monetary policy, the CBRC, China’s banking regulator, has recently modified a few details of how it c
Blog post
20 September 2014
Chart: Alibaba IPO underlines rise of Chinese private sector
Alibaba’s coming of age underlines a continuous trend of the last half-decade. For all the fashionable talk of China’s dominant state capitalism&
Blog post
05 August 2014
Are financial conditions in China too lax or too stringent?
The pronounced slowdown in China’s GDP growth in recent years has raised the important question of what might be its principal causes.
Blog post
26 July 2014
Is the BRICS rise over?
The BRICS name is certainly here to stay, and in terms of global governance, their influence is likely to rise as a group because of this development.
Blog post
15 July 2014
China's Ambassador to the EU on the role of emerging markets in WTO
Remarks delivered by Her Excellency the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the European Union, Yang Yanyi, at workshop 'The fut
Blog post
19 May 2014
China's financial liberalisation: interest rate deregulation or currency flexibility first?
In this follow-up, I argue that on top of these structural and institutional factors, there are also three short-term cyclical considerations in favou
Blog post
15 May 2014
Speech by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, at the Asia Europe Economic Forum
Growth challenges for Asia and Europe
Working paper
14 May 2014
Financial openness of China and India: Implications for capital account liberalisation
We gauge the de-facto capital account openness of the Chinese and Indian economies by testing the law of one price on the basis of onshore and offshor
Blog post
12 May 2014
Blogs review: China's GDP (PPP) to surpass the United States?
What’s at stake: Many news outlets picked up the release of new “purchasing power parity” estimates by the International Comparison Program, emph