Exchange Rate Regime, Financial Market Bubbles and Long-term Growth in China： Lessons from Japan

作     者：Gunther Schnabl 

作者机构：Senior fellow Leipzig University Institute for Economic Policy Leipzig. 

出 版 物：《China & World Economy》 (中国与世界经济（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第25卷第1期

页      面：32-57页

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学科分类：11[军事学] 

主　　题：China capital controls exchange rate policy Japan rebalancing secular stagnation 

摘      要：Since 2014, capital inflows into China have turned into capital outflows, reversing the gradual appreciation path of the renminbi against the US dollar into an erratic depreciation path. The paper explains the current capital ouows by comparing China and Japan with respect to the impact of exchange rate expectations on speculative capital flows. It is argued that both in China and Japan, given benign liquidity conditions in the USA, policy-induced appreciation expectations have generated capital inflows that have contributed to overinvestment and financial market bubbles. The current reversal of capital flows is seen as a signal that the bubble in China has burst. To stabilize growth in China and to discourage speculative capital ouows a fixed exchange rate to the dollar is recommended. Given Japan＇s experience and given that China＇s foreign assets remain high, the depreciation pressure on the Chinese renminbi can be expected to abate.