One Currency, Two Markets: China's Attempt to Internationalize the Renminbi - Softcover

Lai, Edwin L.-C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108740588 ISBN 13: 9781108740586

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2026

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This book is for anyone who is interested in the economic analysis of the future of the international monetary system and the USD, and the rising importance of the RMB. It points out the unsustainability of the dollar standard in the long run, that China has unique incentives to internationalize its currency, and how Hong Kong plays an important role. It explains the real reasons for China to internationalize its currency, including using external commitments to force financial sector reforms ('daobi' in Chinese). It applies economic theories accessible to laymen to establish that financial development and openness are crucial for RMB internationalization to succeed, and that greater exchange rate volatility is inevitable due to the 'open-economy trilemma'. Employing the 'gravity model', the book predicts quantitatively that the RMB is likely to be a distant third payment currency after the USD and the euro, but surpassing the Japanese yen in the next decade.

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Edwin L. -C. Lai is Professor of Economics at HKUST. He has been Senior Research Economist and Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, a consultant with the World Bank and a visiting fellow with Princeton University. He is an associate editor of Review of International Economics and has published in many top economics journals.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108740588
• ISBN 13: 9781108740586
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 345
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