BEI Duoguang , ZHU Xiaoli
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School of Finance, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
Since 2002, RMB has shown a phenomenon which is the co-existence of the external appreciation and the domestic inflation. This new monetary phenomenon has been strengthened in the context that US dollar depreciates internationally and that domestic economy is overwhelmed with excessive liquidities. The new monetary phenomenon is the reflection of the real economy that continuing trade surplus, triggered robustly by the export-driven economy, which brings a huge amount of foreign exchange reserve and accelerates sequentially the expansion of domestic money supply. Furthermore, a refrained appreciation of RMB tends to deteriorate the domestic inflation, which is not simply a traditional concept of CPI but a broad inflation parameter including a variety of asset prices. It is sure that the new phenomenon is becoming a new challenge to the macroeconomic equilibrium as well as the decision maker of monetary policy.
RMB, appreciation, inflation, asset price inflation, inflation index
BEI Duoguang , ZHU Xiaoli. A new monetary phenomenon: An analysis of the co-existence of the external appreciation and the domestic inflation of RMB. Front. Econ. China, 2008, 3(3): 327‒355 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11459-008-0016-6