Organization Date Title Keywords
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 03.1.06 Progress in China's Banking Sector Reform: Has China's Bank Behavior Changed?
Richard Podpiera
Substantial effort has been devoted to reforming China's banking system in recent years. The authorities recapitalized three large state-owned banks, introduced new governance structures, and brought in foreign strategic investors. However, it remains...
Banking, Credit, Lending
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 02.1.06 Does Inflation in China Affect the United States and Japan?
Tarhan Feyzioglu and Luke Willard
With China's share in global trade increasing rapidly, some argued in 2002-03 that China was exporting deflation to other countries as it was dumping cheap goods in mature markets. Later, others argued that China was sucking in commodities and thus...
Deflation, Inflation, U.S. and Japan
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 01.31.06 The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China: A Nonparametric Approach
Bulent Unel and Harm Zebregs
China's growth record since the start of its economic reforms in 1978 has been extraordinary. Yet, this impressive performance has been associated with an increasing regional income disparity. The authors use a recently developed nonparametric approach...
Economic Reform, Labor, Labor Productivity
Cato Institute 01.26.06 Ending Financial Repression in China
James A. Dorn
The consequences of China’s financial repression are easy to see. By suppressing two key macroeconomic prices—the interest rate and the exchange rate—and by failing to privatize financial markets and allow capital freedom, China’s leaders have given...
Exchange Rates, Financial Market, Capital
Cato Institute 01.26.06 Ending Financial Repression in China
James A. Dorn
Chinese economic liberalization largely stopped at the gates of the financial sector. Investment funds are channeled through state-owned banks to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), there are few investment alternatives, stock markets are dominated by SOEs,...
Finance, Economy, Exchange Rates, Chinese Communist Party
Congressional Research Service 01.13.06 The Rise of China and Its Effect on Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea: U.S. Policy Choices
Dick K. Nanto, Emma Chanlett-Avery
The economic rise of China and the growing network of trade and investment relations in northeast Asia are causing major changes in human, economic, political, and military interaction among countries in the region. This is affecting U.S. relations with...
Bilateral Relations, Globalization, Rise of China, Regional Politics
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 01.1.06 Seasonalities in China's Stock Markets: Cultural or Structural?
Jason D. Mitchell and Li Lian Ong
In this paper, we examine returns in the Chinese A and B stock markets for evidence of calendar anomalies. We find that both cultural and structural (segmentation) factors play an important role in influencing the pricing of both A- and B-shares in China...
Stock Market
Congressional Research Service 12.9.05 East Asian Summit: Issues for Congress
Bruce Vaughn
Fundamental shifts underway in Asia could constrain the U.S. role in the multilateral affairs of Asia. The centrality of the United States is now being challenged by renewed regionalism in Asia and by China’s rising influence. While the United States...
U.S.-China Relations, Regional Politics
Congressional Research Service 11.29.05 China’s Currency: Brief Overview of U.S. Options
Jonathan E. Sanford
Many are concerned that China’s currency is undervalued and that this injures the U.S. economy. The Chinese authorities say they are not manipulating their currency and they want to move as soon as possible to a market-based yuan. A new exchange rate...
Currency, Exchange Rates, Renminbi
Cato Institute 10.20.05 How China Should Use Its Foreign Reserves
Deepak Lal
China’s labor-intensive economic growth over the last two decades allowed the transfer of a vast amount of low-wage labor from both the rural sector and the declining state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector. That allowed China to grow by “walking on two legs...
Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Foreign Reserves, State-Owned Enterprises