Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81269 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 696
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We discuss the prospects for Chinese money market development and transition to market-based monetary policy operations based on a comparative historical analysis of the present Chinese situation and the development in 11 European countries from 1979 up to the launch of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Central banks in the latter group typically had an incentive to encourage the formation of efficient benchmark segments in the domestic money markets for the conduct of open market operations as traditional quantity-oriented instruments became increasingly ineffective. China is displaying many of the same symptoms as the European countries in the 1970s and 1980s, including poor monetary transmission due to excess liquidity and conflicts of interest due to unclear priority among multiple policy goals. We conclude that the current Chinese multiple-target monetary policy is counter-productive to efforts to develop an efficient money market that can serve as arena for an effective market-based monetary policy.
Subjects: 
Monetary Policy Operations
Money Market
China
European Union
Deregulation
JEL: 
E42
E52
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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