Amanda Dos Santos
PhD candidate in Finance at Columbia Business School
Research Interests
International Finance, Macroeconomics
Contact Information
Email: amanda.dossantos@gsb.columbia.edu
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Working Papers
"Intenationalizing Like China," with Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger. Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review. December 2022.
Selected media coverage: Bloomberg | The Economist | Business Insider
We empirically characterize how China is internationalizing the Renminbi by staggering the entry of different types of foreign investors into its domestic bond market and propose a dynamic reputation model to explain this strategy. Our framework rationalize China’s strategy as trying to build credibility as an international currency issuer while reducing the cost of capital flight. We provide a sufficient statistic to measure countries’ reputation over time and show that it can be estimated using micro data on foreign investors’ portfolios. We use our framework to explore how countries compete to become a reserve currency provider.
Publications
"China in Tax Havens," with Christopher Clayton, Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger. AEA Paper and Proceedings. May 2023.
Selected media coverage: New York Times | Bloomberg
We document the rise of China in offshore capital markets. Chinese firms use global tax havens to access foreign capital both in equity and bond markets. In the last twenty years, China’s presence went from raising a negligible amount of capital in these markets to accounting for more than half of equity issuance and around a fifth of global corporate bonds outstanding in tax havens. Using rich micro data, we show that a range of Chinese firms, including both tech giants and SOEs, use these offshore centers. We conclude by discussing the macroeconomic and financial stability implications of these patterns.