BOFIT Viikkokatsaus / BOFIT Weekly Review 2015/43
For years, complaints that China was deliberately undervaluing its currency were common. But after a long episode of yuan appreciation, most of this criticism has died down. Even the US treasury department has changed its view in this respect, commenting that the US no longer considers the yuan significantly undervalued. The treasury department notes, however, that the yuan’s exchange rate is still below its medium term valuation. The report sees yuan appreciation continuing over the long run, even though in the short run the yuan faces depreciation pressures on e.g. capital outflows driven by stock market volatility.
Yuan-dollar exchange rate; real (REER) and nominal (NEER) effective exchange rates
Sources: BIS, Bloomberg