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The impact of Chinese monetary policy shocks on East and South‐East Asia1

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  • Tomasz Koluk
  • Aaron Mehrotra

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We study the effects of Chinese monetary policy shocks on China's major trading partners in East and South‐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 neighbouring economies and the significance of Chinese shocks for the design of monetary policy in Asian economies.

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  • Tomasz Koluk & Aaron Mehrotra, 2009. "The impact of Chinese monetary policy shocks on East and South‐East Asia1," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 17(1), pages 121-145, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:etrans:v:17:y:2009:i:1:p:121-145
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00335.x
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