Oil price shocks and their short- and long-term effects on the Chinese economy

Weiqi Tang, Libo Wu (wulibo@fudan.edu.cn) and ZhongXiang Zhang

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Abstract: A considerable body of economic literature shows the adverse economic impacts of oil-price shocks for the developed economies. However, there has been a lack of empirical study of this kind on China and other developing countries. This paper attempts to fill this gap by answering how and to what extent oil-price shocks impact China’s economy, emphasizing on the price transmission mechanisms. To that end, we develop a structural vector auto-regressive model. Our results show that an oil-price increase negatively affects output and investment, but positively affects inflation rate and interest rate. However, with the differentiated price control policies for materials and intermediates on the one hand and final products on the other hand in China, the impact on real economy, represented by real output and real investment, lasts much longer than that to price/monetary variables. Our decomposition results also show that the short-term impact, namely output decrease induced by the cut of capacity-utilization rate, is greater in the first one to two years, but the portion of the long-term impact, defined as the impact realized through an investment change, increases steadily and exceeds that of short-term impact at the end of the second year. Afterwards, the long-term impact dominates, and maintains for quite some time.

Keywords: Structural vector auto-regressive model; Unit root test; Error-correction model; Oil-price shocks; Price transmission mechanisms; Investment; Output; Producer/consumer price index; Census X-12 approach; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 E23 O13 O53 P22 Q41 Q43 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-dev, nep-ene, nep-mac and nep-tra
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Journal Article: Oil price shocks and their short- and long-term effects on the Chinese economy (2010)
Working Paper: Oil Price Shocks and Their Short- and Long-Term Effects on the Chinese Economy (2009)
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