This paper discusses the macroeconomic effects of China's informal banking regulatory tool “window guidance,” introduced in 1998. Using an open-economy DSGE model that includes the commercial banking sector, we study the stabilizing effects of this non-standard quantitative monetary policy...

This paper discusses the macroeconomic effects of China's informal banking regulatory tool “win-dow guidance,” introduced in 1998. Using an open-economy DSGE model that includes the com-mercial banking sector, we study the stabilizing effects of this non-standard quantitative monetary policy...

​Persistent producer price deflation in China and other Asian economies has become a genuine concern for policymakers. In June 2016, China's producer prices were down 12.7 percent from their peak in 2011, following a 52-month stretch of consecutive negative producer price readings (March 2012...

Persistent producer price deflation in China and other Asian economies has become a genuine concern for policymakers. In August 2016, China's producer prices were down 12.4 percent from their peak in 2011, following a 54-month stretch of consecutive negative producer price readings (March 2012...

This working paper was written by Soyoung Kim (Seoul National University), Seri Shim (Bank of Korea) and Hongyi Chen (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research).This paper investigates the effects and conduct of macroprudential policies in China in comparison with those of monetary...