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The “Renminbi Swap Lines” and the Emergent Role of China as an Emergency Lender: Evidences from Argentina’s Case

  • Asia Review
  • Abbr : SNUACAR
  • 2016, 6(1), pp.225~248
  • Publisher : 아시아연구소
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general

Rodrigo Luiz Medeiros da Silva 1

1라틴아메리카 통합연방 대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper has two parts: The first evaluates the current internationalization of China’s domestic currency, the yuan-reminbi. We shall discuss the motivations behind China’s aim to achieve a global status for its currency. We shall also review the official state initiatives to internationalize it. Among those, we emphasize the establishment of yuan-reminbi “swaps,”official credit lines that allow central banks from China and several other countries to purchase and repurchase currencies from one another. The second part is a case study of the Sino-Argentine “swap line.” We will try to characterize the situation of a country that, once facing an imminent devaluation of its national currency, benefited from significant yuan-reminbi inflows in order to stabilize its foreign currency markets. We shall defend the hypothesis that Argentina’s solution to the currency exchange crisis would have been unfeasible without Chin’a new role as an emergency lender.

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