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New Estimates Of The Equilibrium Exchange Rate: The Case For The Chinese Renminbi, Kiyotaka Sato, Junko Shimizu, Nagendra Shrestha, Zhaoyong Zhang
New Estimates Of The Equilibrium Exchange Rate: The Case For The Chinese Renminbi, Kiyotaka Sato, Junko Shimizu, Nagendra Shrestha, Zhaoyong Zhang
Zhaoyong Zhang
We estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate (EER) of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the US dollar from 1995 to 2009. While most of the recent empirical studies on the EER employ a cross-country analysis, country-specific factors, especially supply-side real factors, are not fully taken into consideration in estimating the EER. To better reflect China's processing exports in the context of growing intra-regional trade in Asia, we incorporate in the empirical analysis the source-country breakdown data on import prices and input coefficients of intermediate inputs by constructing an annual new International input-output (IIO) table for the period from 1995 to …