International monetary policy spillovers—can the RMB and the euro challenge the hegemony of the US dollar?

Kristina Spantig ()

Asia Europe Journal, 2015, vol. 13, issue 4, 459-478

Abstract: The paper scrutinizes the spillover effects of expansionary monetary policies of a center economy to the macroeconomic policies of periphery countries, dependent on the exchange rate regime. In particular, the impact of the US quantitative easing on the Chinese economy is analysed. The results suggest that the exchange rate regime plays a minor role in insulating the economies at the periphery of the world monetary system from monetary policy shocks in the center. Capital controls, on the other hand, enable the periphery countries, in particular China, to maintain a certain degree of monetary independence in the short run. In the long run, a closer Chinese–European policy coordination is argued to create a counterbalance to the predominance of the US dollar in the currently asymmetric world monetary system. This would provide an incentive to the USA to phase out undue monetary expansion. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10308-015-0415-0

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