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To Guide or Not to Guide? Quantitative Monetary Policy Tools and Macroeconomic Dynamics in China

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  • Hongyi Chen

    (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority)

  • Michael Funke

    (Hamburg University, Tallinn University of Technology)

  • Ivan Lozev

    (European Commission)

  • Andrew Tsang

    (Hamburg University)

Abstract

This paper discusses the macroeconomic effects of China's quantity-based banking regulatory tool, "window guidance," introduced in 1998. Using an open-economy DSGE model that includes a commercial banking sector, we study the stabilizing effects of this nonstandard quantitative monetary policy tool and the implications of quantity-based versus price-based monetary policy instruments for welfare. The analyses are relevant to the current overhaul of Chinese monetary policy.

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  • Hongyi Chen & Michael Funke & Ivan Lozev & Andrew Tsang, 2020. "To Guide or Not to Guide? Quantitative Monetary Policy Tools and Macroeconomic Dynamics in China," International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 16(5), pages 49-94, October.
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