ABSTRACT
Since 2002, the call for appreciation of RMB has surged upward unceasingly in
the international society . Specially, US strongly requests China to increase the value
of RMB to US dollar in order to reverse its large trade deficit to China. On July
21,2005, the People's Bank of China announced that, the floating exchange rate
system with the management will be implemented in China on the base of the market
supply and demand. And a basket currency will act as a information referred when
having an adjustment to RMB exchange rate. At the same time, exchange rate of
RMB to US dollar is adjusted to 8.11 Yuan per US dollar, approximately 2 percentage
points added in value.
Under such background, the theorists put the more attention on the relationship
between the real RMB exchange rate and Chinese trade balance. Many scholars
worried that the appreciation of the RMB exchange rate will give Chinese trade
balance a serious impact and will affect the stability of the national economy.
If we want to know whether the above judgment is correct, we must answer the
next questions:
What is the mechanism that real RMB exchange rate affect Chinese trade
balance by ? Does Marshall-Lerner condition hold from a long run ? Does the "J"
curve effect exist in China from a short run ?How does real RMB exchange rate affect
Chinese trade Balance ? On which direction and what degree do real RMB exchange
rate affect Chinese trade Balance? How long will Chinese trade Balance be influenced
after real RMB exchange rate begin to change ? It is very important for China to guide
the current exchange rate policy through researching these questions.
This paper is an empirical examination of long run relationship and short run
relationship between real RMB exchange rate and Chinese bilateral trade Balance to
the United States from 1994 to 2004.Namely, we try to judge whether
Marshall-Lerner condition hold from a long run and whether the "J" curve effect exist
in China from a short run . we try to judge the effect and time lag that the economical
variables such as real RMB exchange rate and real income have an influence on
Chinese import amounts ,export amounts and bilateral trade Balance .
We research the long run effect that the real exchange rate to the import ,export
and trade balance through the Cointegration Analysis influence. In order to study the
dynamic adjustment mechanism that the real exchange rate, the real income influence
trade balance from a short run, we used the vector error correct model(VECM), the