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EFFICACY OF CHINA'S CAPITAL CONTROLS: EVIDENCE FROM PRICE AND FLOW DATA
Author(s) -
Ma Guonan,
McCauley Robert N
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2007.00392.x
Subject(s) - renminbi , economics , monetary economics , china , capital (architecture) , liberian dollar , exchange rate , de facto , capital flows , international economics , market economy , finance , liberalization , archaeology , law , political science , history
. The paper argues that China's capital controls remain substantially binding. This has allowed the Chinese authorities to retain some degree of short‐term monetary autonomy, despite the fixed exchange rate to July 2005. Although the Chinese capital controls have not been watertight, we find sustained and significant gaps between onshore and offshore renminbi interest rates and persistent dollar/renminbi interest rate differentials during the period of a de facto dollar peg. While some cross‐border flows do respond to market expectations and relative yields, they have not been large enough to equalise onshore and offshore renminbi yields.