Author: Nial Gooding

Here’s the key point from the piece looked over today; “..the US-China trade war may not be a turning point in the process of globalization but rather an opportunity for the reorganization of economic activities, both within and between countries.” Researchers Fanghua Li, Liyuan Wang and Li Zhang from the University of New South Wales, […]

The Peterson Institute for International Economics has crafted a document they hope will inform the incoming Trump administration about the future use of ‘sanctions’. To highlight the often useless nature of these, of all the examples they could have chosen they went with one especially pertinent to readers of this note involving Hong Kong’s former […]

From the longer document here I’ve extracted the key messages from each article with a link so you can follow up on each if you’re sufficiently interested. Larry Summer’s piece (second highlight, below) is especially helpful. CHINA’S REAL ESTATE CHALLENGE. Kenneth Rogoff -Maurits C. Boas Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Yuanchen Yang, eonomist in […]

Talk, and action, recently to ‘stimulate’ the Chinese economy seems to have ignored the fact the government have been trying this, and via pretty much the same route i.e. lower interest rates, since 2021. We can see it hasn’t been very successful since then so why (on earth!) do some think it’s about to start […]

[Researchers at the independent U.S. think-tank Rhodium Group produced a report earlier this year in July I’m revisiting today. It has particular merit being produced before the stimulus measures recently announced and highlights China’s biggest problem that those measures appeared to largely ignore.] It’s clear, China has a real problem with consumption, or the lack […]

That China listens to the IMF is a reassuring and observable fact. So, when the IMF produces a targeted analysis on China’s currently single most serious problem, growth or lack thereof, it’s worth a closer squint. In the IMF Working Paper at this link China’s Path to Sustainable and Balanced Growth staffers Dirk Muir, Natalija […]

In light of recent political developments in the United States do we think China-bashing by Western governments and Western media will: A. Continue as before? B. Decrease in intensity? C. Increase in intensity? If, like me, you believe C is the most likely outcome the paper highlighted today from Isha Agarawal of the University of […]

Researchers Hongtao Chen, Yunlang Wu and Jun Huang, all from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics found an interesting link between ESG ratings and audit fees. Along the way they note nearly 600 agencies are now providing ESG rating services globally with roughly 20 [Surely more? Ed.] of those in China. The problem with […]

[If the future of the ‘tech-war(s)’ is of more than passing interest I recommend you commit the 30-minutes or so a reading of the full text requires. The link is at the end.] Anu Bradford, Matthew C. Waxman and Eileen Li, all at the Law School of the Columbia University, in a pre-print for the […]

Joe Long from the Northwestern University (et al.) acknowledges one of the problems with this analysis is it covers a period when the region being studied, the western states of the United States, did pretty well. The conclusion of the work though is although white miners in the west were beneficiaries of the Chinese Exclusion […]

Michael R. Davidson at the School of Global Policy and StrategyMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of California, San Diego takes the long look at China’s coal ‘problem’. That coal in China is a problem, and one getting worse, is in no doubt. China consumes half of the world’s coal used, five times […]

Fuxiu Jiang from the Renmin University and Kenneth Kim from the Tongji University have prepared a paper that drills down into the mechanisms that make corporate governance (CG) different in China. They believe the arc of China’s CG progress will bend neither towards the Anglo-U.S. model nor to Japan-German practices. As the ‘China-Model’ is still […]

Kari Heimonen and Risto Rönkkö from the University of Jyväskylä and the Bank of Finland have taken a fresh look at the ever-topical notion that the Rmb is increasingly being woven more into the global currency system Since China got off its narrow U.S. dollar peg in 2005 there’s been a strong case to be […]

The young men (and they’re all young men BTW) in t-shirts with tats who promote cryptocurrency at the University of YouTube regularly cite the coming of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a key reason to love the crypto; but so far and to date, CBDCs have failed to arrive. Nobody has made more of […]

The IMF’s regular publication ‘Finance and Development’ is free and an always good read. The September edition though is especially interesting so I’ve decided to highlight the best articles from it today. You can get a copy via the following link Finance and Development – September 2024. The magazine focuses on a key issue for […]

Henry L. Friedman of the University of California’s Anderson School of Management (et al.) found a unique opportunity to test whether or not management guidance helped investors to more orderly or ‘better’ markets. In June 2020 China’s regulators dropped the requirement for companies on their GEM board to provide mandatory earnings guidance. Following the rule […]

The U.S. decided in 2017 to clip China’s wings as an export manufacturing powerhouse. Since then China’s trade balance has gotten a lot bigger. In June it reached a new record. So what’s going on? Trang Hoang and Gordon Lewis, researchers at the FED, have twigged part of the answer which they discuss in a […]

Koichi Yoshino from the Tezukayama University (Nara) together with others from the Bank of Japan address the China-growth question in the context of the Asian Fantastic-4 (F4, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore) who’ve already blazed the trail. They conclude, if China can follow the same path the results should be equally impressive. However.. China differs […]