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Structural Effects of a Real Exchange Rate Revaluation in China: a CGE Assessment

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  • Dirk Willenbockel

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The misalignment of the Chinese currency exposed by the rapid build-up of China’s foreign exchange reserves over the past few years has been the subject of considerable recent debate. Recent econometric studies suggest a Renminbi undervaluation on the order of 10 to 30%. The modest revaluation of July 2005 is widely perceived as insufficient to correct China’s balance-of-payments disequilibrium and has not silenced charges that China is engaging in persistent one-sided currency manipulation. Within China there are widespread concerns regarding the adverse employment effects of a major revaluation on labour-intensive export sectors, yet the likely magnitude of these effects remains a controversial issue. The paper aims to shed light on this question by simulating the structural effects of a real exchange rate revaluation that lowers the current account surplus-GDP by 4 percentage-points using a 17-sector computable general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy.
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  • Dirk Willenbockel, 2006. "Structural Effects of a Real Exchange Rate Revaluation in China: a CGE Assessment," EcoMod2006 272100102, EcoMod.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekd:002721:272100102
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    • F40 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - General
    • F17 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Forecasting and Simulation
    • C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models

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