Development of the Renminbi Market in Hong Kong SAR: Assessing Onshore-Offshore Market Integration

By R. S Craig, Changchun Hua, Philip Ng, Raymond Yuen

December 24, 2013

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R. S Craig, Changchun Hua, Philip Ng, and Raymond Yuen. Development of the Renminbi Market in Hong Kong SAR: Assessing Onshore-Offshore Market Integration, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

Offshore use of the renminbi expanded rapidly in Hong Kong SAR as China sought to develop an international role for its currency while maintaining capital controls. This prompts two questions addressed in this paper: How far advanced is renminbi internationalization? And, what role does Chinese capital account liberalization play? The first is addressed by testing the extent of integration of offshore and onshore markets for the renminbi using a Threshold Autoregression (TAR) model and finds that there are substantial unexploited arbitrage opportunities. A VAR model is used to indentify factors contributing to this limited market integration and finds that capital controls and shifts in global market sentiment explain much of the divergence in onshore and offshore renminbi exchange rates. To address the second question, the paper shows how capital account measures have been used to promote offshore use of the renminbi more actively in the wake of the global financial crisis, but that this was done asymmetrically with controls on inflows eased to a greater extent than on outflows. It concludes that a more balanced liberalization process will sustain progress in renminbi internationalization.

Subject: Arbitrage, Asset and liability management, Balance of payments, Capital account liberalization, Capital controls, Capital flows, Commodities, Liquidity

Keywords: Arbitrage, Capital account liberalization, Capital controls, Capital flows, Financial product, Global, Internationalization measure, Investment activity, Liberalization, Liquidity, Market, Market integration, Offshore financial markets, QFII scheme, Renminbi, Renminbi internationalization, Renminbi liquidity, Risk reversal index, Trade settlement, WP

Publication Details

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25
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Working Paper No. 2013/268
Stock No:

WPIEA2013268
ISBN:

9781484332948
ISSN:

1018-5941

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