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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2008
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 08,12
Verlag: 
University of Kent, Department of Economics, Canterbury
Zusammenfassung: 
The increase in oil prices in recent years has occurred concurrently with a rapid expansion of Chinese exports in the world markets, despite China being an oil importing country. In this paper we develop a theoretical model that explains the positive correlation between Chinese exports and the oil price. The model shows that Chinese growth can lead to an increase in oil prices that has a stronger impact on its export competitors. This is due to the large labor force surplus of China. We then examine this hypothesis by estimating a reduced form equation for Chinese exports using Rodrik (2006)'s measure of export competitiveness, together with the oil price, productivity, real exchange rate, and foreign industrial production over the monthly 1992-2005 period. The results suggest a stable relationship and yields slightly positive values for the price of oil and elastic coefficients for export competitiveness, along with the expected negative elasticity for the real exchange rate.
Schlagwörter: 
China
oil prices
competitiveness
exports
productivity
JEL: 
F14
F43
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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