This paper constructs a macro-finance model with two types of borrowers: entrepreneurs who engage in productive activities and gamblers who play in lotteries. It links a central bank's interest rate policy to expected cash flows of both types of borrowers. Via this link we study how the...

Recent cross-country studies on the globalization and output-inflation tradeoff correlation find openness has no significant effect on OECD countries. Those studies assume parameter constancy across countries. In this paper, we argue that this assumption does not hold for major industrialized...

Chapter 1: RMB Internationalization Index -- Chapter 2: Economic and Trade Cooperation and Currency Internationalization: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis -- Chapter 3: Promoting RMB Internationalization Under the RCEP Framework -- Chapter 4: EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment and...