中山大学港澳珠三角研究中心
学术讲座
讲座人:张志文(中山大学亚太研究院副教授、美国西部经济学会会员)
讲座题目:The Size of Foreign Exchange Reserves and Local Currency Internationalization: Cross-Country Evidence
时 间:2013年9月22日(星期日)下午15:50—17:00
地 点:文科大楼6楼港澳珠三角研究中心讲学厅
讲者简介:
张志文,中山大学亚太研究院副教授、美国西部经济学会(WEAI)会员,2008年6月从中山大学岭南学院获经济学博士学位(金融学专业),先后在IMF(2006)和哈佛大学(2010)做访问学者。研究方向为国际金融(货币国际化、汇率传递)、宏观经济学(通货膨胀)、金融发展与经济增长关系的实证研究、澳大利亚和新西兰货币金融制度。在《经济研究》和《国际金融研究》(封面文章)等专业性重要刊物发表学术论文10余篇,在“中国金融出版社”出版个人学术专著《金融发展与经济增长关系的国际经验研究》(2008)。详情请参见个人主页:http://saps.sysu.edu.cn/szdw/fjs/90110.htm.
讲座内容:
This paper employs the Pooled IV/Two Stage Least Square (2SLS) estimator to produce the first cross-country evidence on the relationship between the size of foreign exchange reserves and local currency internationalization in Switzerland, Japan, and the UK. It finds that a high ratio of foreign exchange reserves to international reserves has a significant, but negative, impact on local currency internationalization during the period 1976-2009. After controlling for interest rate differential, different indicators for long-run depreciation and volatility of exchange rates, as well as the once-in-a-century global financial crisis, this conclusion still holds. Additionally, these results are robust to an alternative to the scale of foreign exchange reserves.