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Effective or Manipulated Crawling Pegged? Examining the Efficiency of China’s Foreign Exchange Markets

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  • W. D. Chen

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Through data on the balance of payments, this article examines the performance of the crawling peg system in China’s foreign exchange markets. We are interested in whether the exchange rates are steered by the market fundamentals or manipulation. We investigate the changes in market efficiency for the RMB against 12 major currencies in the past decade. Our findings reveal that even with a small floating band in China’s foreign exchange markets, if the market allows the exchange rate to adjust according to the price mechanism, then market efficiency does improve significantly. When the RMB was pegged to the USD at 6.83 during the global financial crisis, there was a severe market failure. That also occurred in 2014, when the China government began to depreciate the RMB to stimulate exports.

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  • W. D. Chen, 2018. "Effective or Manipulated Crawling Pegged? Examining the Efficiency of China’s Foreign Exchange Markets," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(12), pages 2834-2850, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:54:y:2018:i:12:p:2834-2850
    DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2017.1415883
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