Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Yin-Wong Cheun
Author-X-Name-First: Yin-Wong
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheun
Author-Name: Robert N McCauley
Author-X-Name-First: Robert N
Author-X-Name-Last: McCauley
Title: Geographic spread of currency trading: the renminbi and other EM currencies
Abstract: This paper studies the ongoing diffusion of renminbi trading across the globe, the first such research of an international currency. It analyses the distribution in offshore renminbi trading in 2013 and 2016, using comprehensive data from the Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Over-the-Counter Derivatives Market Activity. In 2013, Asian centres favoured by the policy of renminbi internationalisation had big shares in global renminbi trading. In the following three years, renminbi trading seemed to converge to the spatial pattern of all currencies, with a half-life of seven to eight years. The previously most traded emerging market currency, the Mexican peso, shows a similar pattern, although it is converging to the global norm more slowly. Three other major emerging market currencies show a qualitatively similar evolution in the geography of their offshore trading. Overall the renminbi's internationalisation is tracing an arc from the influence of administrative measures to the working of market forces.
Length: 18 pages
Creation-Date: 2019-08
File-URL: https://www.bis.org/publ/work806.pdf
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File-Function: Full PDF document
File-URL: https://www.bis.org/publ/work806.htm
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Number: 806
Classification-JEL: C24, F31, F33, G15, G18
Keywords: international currency, FX turnover, renminbi internationalisation, international financial centre
Handle: RePEc:bis:biswps:806