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The Impact of U.S. Economic Growth on the Rest of the World: How Much Does It Matter?

Vivek Arora (avamvakidis@imf.org.) and Athanasios Vamvakidis (varora@imf.org)
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Vivek Arora: International Monetary Fund, Postal: International Monetary Fund, 700 19th Street,, N.W., Washington DC, 20431
Athanasios Vamvakidis: International Monetary Fund

Journal of Economic Integration, 2004, vol. 19, 1-18

Abstract:

This paper attempts to quantify the extent to which U.S. growth is an “engine” of the world economy. Results based on fixed-effects estimation using panel data suggest a significant positive impact of U.S. growth on growth in the rest of the world, especially developing countries, in recent decades. The impact is as large as one-for-one in some specifications. The results are robust to alternative specifications and to the alternative claim that world growth in recent decades has been driven predominantly by common global shocks.

Keywords: Economic growth; Economic integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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