There’s been a debate whether investment rates in China are sustainable or not.
Category Archives: China
Estimating U.S.-China Trade Elasticities: Some Very Preliminary Results
Do we have any idea what the CNY appreciation against the dollar will accomplish?
Measuring the U.S.-China trade balance
Some complications
How Mobile Is Capital Internationally?
The issue of international capital mobility comes up time and time again. There is the worry of capital and associated production capacity moving abroad to China for lower wage rates, and if not to China, to the rest of the world to escape environmental regulations or to avoid corporate taxation. So how mobile is capital?
A closer look at the US-China trade figures…and more on the RMB
The Renminbi (RMB) is probably undervalued, according to some criteria. Would adjusting it fix the US-China trade deficit? Or the overall US trade deficit?
The enigmatic Yuan
The Yuan has not been moving much. Or has it? And does it matter much for the U.S. current account deficit
China roars into the automotive era
Guess who’s now the second-biggest market for new cars in the world?
Learning (or non-learning) from the Classical Age
Or, what if George W. Bush had lived in 480 BCE; would we all be speaking Persian?
Is dollar depreciation a separate policy channel for trade balance adjustment?
The dollar is on the decline…more or less. Will this cause the long awaited adjustment?
The portfolio balance effect and reserve diversification
Implications from the debate over the Renminbi. And the Won. And the…