The Internationalisation of the Renminbi as an Investing and a Funding Currency: Analytics and Prospects

Dong He, Paul Luk () and Wenlang Zhang
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Wenlang Zhang: Hong Kong Monetary Authority

No 12015, Working Papers from Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Abstract: The use of international currencies in the global financial system is not symmetric: while a few currencies have been primarily used as investing currencies, a few others have mostly served as funding currencies; only a handful have a better balance functioning as both investing and funding currencies. This paper develops a three-currency model to study the determinants of the demand for assets and liabilities denominated in an international currency, and attempts to shed light on the prospects for the renminbi as a budding international currency. We show that interest rate differentials would be only one of the factors shaping the renminbi's position, while other factors, including the correlation between foreign countries' economic growth and their bilateral exchange rates against the renminbi, and the correlation between exchange rates of the renminbi with other international currencies, would also be important. A broad interpretation of these findings is that the renminbi will likely be very attractive to investors from high-income economies and fund-raisers from emerging market economies.

Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2015-01
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