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Title: | Whither China? Reform and economic integration among Chinese regions |
Authors: | Fidrmuc, J Huang, S Fidrmuc, J |
Keywords: | SVAR model;Business cycle synchronization;China;Economic reform |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | China Economic Review, 33: pp. 94 - 110, (2015) |
Abstract: | This paper investigates the changing nature of economic integration in China. Speci cally, we consider business-cycle synchronization (correlation of demand and supply shocks) among Chinese provinces during the period 1955-2011. We nd that the symmetry of supply shocks has declined after the liberalization initiated in 1978. In contrast, the correlation of demand shocks has increased during the same period. We then seek to explain these correlations by relating them to factors that proxy for interprovincial trade and vulnerability of regions to idiosyncratic shocks. Interprovincial trade and similarity in factor endowments tend to make shocks more symmetric. Surprisingly, foreign trade and inward FDI have little e¤ect on the symmetry of shocks. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10323 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X14001734 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2014.12.007 |
ISSN: | 1873-7781 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Economics and Finance Research Papers |
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