Xiao Geng
Xiao Geng, President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, is a professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Xiao Geng, President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, is a professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Perhaps the simplest explanation for Donald Trump's unexpected victory in the US presidential election is the most accurate: Trump’s opponents got played. If the rest of the world underestimates him, … read more
Given US President-elect Donald Trump's promises of tax cuts and infrastructure investment, markets are anticipating faster growth in the US. But, by increasing the dollar’s value against most currenc… read more
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to Harvard’s Oliver Hart and MIT’s Bengt Holmström for their pioneering work on the economics of property rights and contracts. At a time when China i… read more
Real-estate prices in China’s top cities have been spiking recently, generating contradictory predictions of either bursting bubbles or a coming economic turn-around. What's really going on in China’s… read more
China’s transformation from a manufacturing-driven and export-led economy to one underpinned by services and domestic consumption is firmly underway. And that's good news, not just for China, but also… read more
There is reason to believe that China’s supply-side rebalancing is moving in the right direction. But unless China’s leaders also tackle the challenges posed by market and bureaucratic inefficiencies,… read more
China has lately been facing harsh criticism for its economic management, with many outsiders taking aim at the authorities’ postponement of the much-touted reform of state-owned enterprises. But ther… read more
A spate of recent commentary has been warning of the vertiginous rise in China’s debt, which jumped from 148% of GDP in 2007 to 249% at the end of the third quarter of last year, placing it on par wit… read more
In recent years, unconventional monetary policy has shown that liquidity can be created against global savings, with relatively little impact on inflation, provided there is excess capacity in product… read more
