Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/206617 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2019-60
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This study investigates the impacts of trade with China on the gross domestic product (GDP) of the global South. While the current literature on the growth impacts of trade (by leading partner countries) often neglects the properties of macro panel data, such as cross-sectional dependence, heterogeneity and structural breaks, our models take these features into account. The empirical results of 22 major developing countries over 2000Q1 to 2016Q4 find positive contributions of imports from China to GDP in our studied sample, although the magnitude of these effects is smaller than that of otheremerging and developing economies (not including China) (EDE) and advanced economies (AdE). The authors also show that, in contrast with considerable impacts of exports to EDE and AdE, exports to China have limited effects on the growth of its partners. However, the recent financial crisis marks a turning point of China's role as a major driver of growth in the South. Namely, while contributions of trade with China in its partners after the global crisis are on the rise, the opposite is true for EDE and AdE.Examining the effects by individual countries, they present that the distance between China and its partners and economic development level of its partners are almost irrelevant to the contributions of imports from China to its partners' growth. They provide some important policy recommendations for the global South from these findings.
Subjects: 
China
growth
developing and emerging economies
international trade
panel data
econometrics
cross-sectional dependence
JEL: 
C23
F43
O4
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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