THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CHINESE CURRENCY APPRECIATION ON CHINA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD: A GLOBAL COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

Jun Yang, Wei Zhang () and Simla Tokgoz

No 125010, 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: There has been contentious debate surrounding the issue of undervaluation of the Chinese Renminbi, with continuous international political pressure on China to appreciate its currency and the Chinese government resisting significant changes in its policy. A key question underlining the debate is whether a Renminbi appreciation would deliver substantial gains for exports and employment as the United States has argued or a significant slowdown of Chinese economy as feared by the Chinese government, and if so to what extent. This paper analyzes the ex-ante, short-term impacts of the Chinese Renminbi appreciation on the Chinese and world economies using the novel approach of modeling nominal exchange rate adjustment in the Global Trade Analysis Project, a global computable general equilibrium model. Scenario results show that the Chinese economy will be affected negatively, with lower real gross domestic product, lower employment rates, and a decline in the trade surplus. Chinese currency appreciation has a positive impact on the GDP of the major countries and regions, but by a small margin. With a higher Chinese exchange rate, trade balances for other trading partner countries, with the exception of the United States, improve.

Keywords: Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2012-06-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.125010

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