IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-53879-6_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Impossible Trinity in China

In: China’s Impossible Trinity

Author

Listed:
  • Chi Lo

    (Economic Strategist)

Abstract

The Impossible Trinity, also known as the trilemma, is a policy-choice problem based on the Mundell–Flemming model (Mundell 1963; Flemming 1962), which states that it is impossible for a country to have control of all three of the following variables at the same time (Figure 1.1): a fixed exchange rate (i.e. control of the exchange rate); an open capital account (i.e. control of the capital account); and an independent monetary policy (i.e. control of the interest rate). It is both a hypothesis based on the uncovered interest rate parity condition 1 and an empirical finding showing that governments that have tried to simultaneously pursue all three goals have failed. Figure 1.1 The Impossible Trinity Source: Author.

Suggested Citation

  • Chi Lo, 2015. "The Impossible Trinity in China," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: China’s Impossible Trinity, chapter 1, pages 1-15, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-53879-6_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137538796_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-53879-6_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.