Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment: The Yuan and Other Currencies

Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Eiji Fujii

No 14168, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We evaluate whether the Renminbi (RMB) is misaligned, relying upon conventional statistical methods of inference. A framework built around the relationship between relative price and relative output levels is used. We find that, once sampling uncertainty and serial correlation are accounted for, there is little statistical evidence that the RMB is undervalued, even though the point estimates usually indicate economically significant misalignment. The result is robust to various choices of country samples and sample periods, as well as to the inclusion of control variables. We then update the results using the latest vintage of the data to demonstrate how fragile the results are. We find that whatever misalignment we detected in our previous work disappears in this data set.

JEL-codes: F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-07
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Published as Yin-Wong Cheung & Menzie Chinn & Eiji Fujii, 2009. "Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 183-206, April.

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