ABSTRACT
In the big wave of global economic integration and financial liberalization ,with
the pace of China's financial reform to speed up ,deepening of China interest rates
liberalization reform ,further improving of the RMB exchange rate regime and the
gradual opening of the capital and financial account, the trend about Gradual opening up
of financial markets has become bright and clear. And in recent years, China's economy
has maintained rapid growth, foreign trade continually profited, gross of foreign
exchange reserves increased rapidly, and RMB appreciated continually, our country has
large amounts of foreign capital come in, accompanying with speculative international
hot money by a variety of channels and ways. As prevention is better than cure, we must
study a series of lessons from financial crisis which happened at the end of last century,
and try our best to find out a set of measures which are suitable for our country's
financial and economic development, and prevent us from international hot money's
risks. All of these play a great role in protecting our country's financial security,
maintaining financial market stability, and promoting economic development.
For in-depth research and analysis of the impact of international hot money on the
financial markets, firstly, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the
international hot money. Therefore, this paper analyzes in detail the basic concepts,
causes and sources, the way flow into our country of international hot money. Secondly,
with a deep understanding of international hot money, we analyze the impact of
international hot money on Chinese financial market stability deeply. Thirdly, according
to the order of international hot money inflows into our country's financial markets and
the transitivity of its influence, we divide the financial market into three segments -
foreign exchange market, money market and capital market. On this basis, a theoretical
framework is constructed to explain the impact of international hot money to each
market respectively. Meanwhile, based on Chinese monthly data collected for the period
from January 2000 to December 2012, our study presents an empirical analysis with the
MS - VAR model. The results showed as follows. The economic system is divided into
two regimes, high volatility and low volatility, by model of MS-VAR. There are
different effects on each sub-market in differential regimes, with lag time, directions and
degrees. In the high volatility regime, it is larger more than in the low volatility regime
that the international hot money has impacted on exchange rates, interest rates and stock
prices. Especially in a bull market, the stock price was significantly pushed up by
international hot money. On the contrary, the withdrawing of international hot money
exacerbated the decline of stock price, during a bear time. Finally, as a result, this paper
proposes some appropriate policy recommendations, in order to prevent significant
impact of international hot money on China's financial markets.
Key words :International Hot Money, Financial Market, Model of