Financial Policies

While China has undertaken significant economic reforms since the late 1970s, the government still imposes significant control over the financial system. Repressive financial policies have important implications for a range of variables, including economic development, economic imbalances, and inequality. The studies that are included in this program analyzes the effects of financial policies using both cross-country and country-specific data.

Projects in this program include:

• Financial Repression and Real Exchange Rates
• Financial Openness in China
• Financial Sector Policies, Poverty and Inequality
• Financial Repression and China's Economic Imbalances
• Financial Repression and External Imbalances
• Financial Repression and Structural Imbalances

SCERI Program Participants: Dr. Xun Wang and Dr. Anders C. Johansson
Funding: Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser