Understanding Chinese Bond Yields And Their Role In Monetary Policy

Download or read book Understanding Chinese Bond Yields and their Role in Monetary Policy written by Mr.Nuno Cassola and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's financial prices are informative enough for the PBC to introduce a monetary policy framework centered around interest rates. While bond yields are not fully efficient?reflecting regulation, liquidity, and segmentation?we find they contain considerable information about the state of the economy as well as evidence of an emerging transmission channel: changes in PBC rates influence the structure of Treasury, financial, and corporate bond yield curves, which are then associated with changes in growth and inflation. Coporate spreads are also a leading indicator of growth and inflation. While further liberalization will strengthen both efficiency and transmission, several necessary elements to move towards indirect monetary policy are already in place.