Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212618 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 5/2008
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We study the effects of Chinese monetary policy shocks on China s major trading partners in East Asia by estimating structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models for six economies in the region. We find that a monetary expansion in Mainland China leads to an increase in real GDP (temporary) and the price level (permanent) in a number of economies in our sample, most notably in Hong Kong and the Philippines. The impact could result from intertemporal substitution present in a general equilibrium framework which allows for positive domestic impacts of foreign monetary expansions. Our results emphasize the growing importance of China for its neighboring economies and the significance of Chinese shocks for the design of monetary policy in Asian economies.
Subjects: 
monetary policy shocks
Asian production chain
SVAR
East Asia
China
JEL: 
E52
F42
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-462-901-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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