TY - CEPII
A1 - Agnès Bénassy-Quéré
A1 - Yeganeh Forouheshfar
TI - The Impact of Yuan Internationalization on the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate
IS - 2013-14
T3 - Working Papers
KW - China
KW - yuan
KW - exchange-rate regime
KW - euro
KW - dollar
N2 - We study the implication of a multipolarization of the international monetary system on cross-currency volatility. More specifically, we analyze whether the internationalization of the yuan could modify the impact of asset supply and trade shocks on the euro-dollar exchange rate, within a three-country, three-currency portfolio model. Our static model shows that the internationalization of the yuan (defined as a rise in the yuan in international portfolios) would be either neutral or stabilizing for the euro-dollar rate, whatever the exchange-rate regime of China. Moving to a dynamic, stock-flow framework, we show that the internationalization of the yuan would make exchange-rate variations more efficient to stabilize net foreign asset positions after a trade shock.
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