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What Drives China's Interbank Market?

Author/Editor: Porter, Nathaniel John | Xu, TengTeng
Authorized for Distribution: September 1, 2009
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Summary: Interest rates in China comprise a mix of both market determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and regulated interest rates (lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. We argue, using a theoretical model and empirical analysis, that the regulation of key retail interest rates diminishes the ability of the market determined rates to act as independent price signals, or as benchmarks for use in asset pricing and monetary policy. Further interest rate liberalization should, therefore, strengthen the information conveyed by movements in interest rates, allowing for the better pricing of risk and capital.
 
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Series: Working Paper No. 09/189
Subject(s): Asset prices | Bank regulations | Banking sector | Bond markets | Capital markets | Central bank policy | China, People's Republic of | Economic models | Interest rates | Interest rates on deposits | Interest rates on loans | Liquidity | Monetary policy | Pricing policy
Author's keyword(s): Interbank market; monetary policy; GARCH; China
 
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    Published:   September 1, 2009        
            Format:   Paper
    Stock No:   WPIEA2009189   Pages:   30
    Price:   US$18.00 (Academic Rate: US$18.00 )
       
     
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