China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads / / ed. by Charles Calomiris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bekaert, Geert,; Brandt, Loren,; Branstetter, Lee,; Calomiris, Charles W.,; Eichengreen, Barry,; Garber, Peter,; Harvey, Campbell R.,; Hodrick, Robert J.,; Hu, Fred,; Lundblad, Christian,; Makin, John H.,; Malpass, David,; Mishkin, Frederic S.,; Prasad, Eswar,; Wei, Shang-Jin,; Zhu, Xiaodong,
• HerausgeberIn: Calomiris, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 47 figures and 44 tables

China's increasing role in global economic affairs has placed the country at a crossroads: how many and what types of international capital-market transactions will China permit? How will China's financial system change internally? What kind of relationships will the Chinese government develop with foreign financial institutions, especially with those based in the United States? Can China broker a sustainable partnership with America that will avoid sending economic shock waves throughout the world?Drawing on the contemporary research of prominent international scholars, the experts in this volume outline the trajectory of China's financial markets since the advent of reform and anticipate their uncertain future. Chapter authors and commentators include Geert Bekaert, Loren Brandt, Lee Branstetter, Mary Wadsworth Darby, Michael DeStefano, Barry Eichengreen, Campbell Harvey, Fred Hu, Xiaobo Lu, Christian Lundblad, Ailsa Roell, Daniel Rosen, Shang-Jin Wei, Jialin Yu, and Xiaodong Zhu. The book begins with an overview of the history of financial-sector development, regulation, and performance and then focuses on the banking sector, discussing the progress, challenges, and prospects of current sector reform. Subsequent chapters describe the role of foreign capital in China's development and analyze the changes in capital flows and controls over time; explore various explanations for China's composition of foreign-capital and foreign-exchange policies, particularly the factors shaping China's reliance on foreign direct investment; and provide an international, comparative perspective on the remarkable growth experience of China and the contribution of its institutional environment to that experience. Contributors dispute the belief that stock market listing has done little to reform state-owned enterprises and take a hard look at the exchange rate regime choice for China, considering the potential long-run desirability of flexibility and the appropriate sequencing of reforms in foreign-exchange policy, domestic banking reform, and capital-market openness. The book concludes with a roundtable discussion in which prominent economists, including Peter Garber, Robert Hodrick, John Makin, David Malpass, Frederic Mishkin, and Eswar Prasad, debate the pace of the appreciation of China's currency and the likely consequences of that policy within and outside of China.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. China's Financial Markets: An Overview -- 2. China's Banking Sector and Economic Growth -- 3. Understanding the Structure of Cross- Border Capital Flows: The Case of China -- 4. Financial Openness and the Chinese Growth Experience -- 5. The Effects of Stock Market Listing on the Financial Per for mance of Chinese Firms -- 6. China's Exchange Rate Regime: The Long and Short of It -- 7. China's Foreign Exchange Policy: What Will China Do? What Should China Do? -- Appendix 1 Regional Estimates of New Deposit and Loan Shares, and Nonperforming Loans -- Appendix 2. Evolution of Capital Controls in China -- List of Contributors -- Index