China's Business Cycles: Perspectives from an AD–AS Model

Yin Zhang () and Guanghua Wan

Asian Economic Journal, 2005, vol. 19, issue 4, 445-469

Abstract: The present paper represents a first attempt to study China's business cycles using a formal analytical framework; namely, a structural VAR model. It is found that (i) demand shocks were the dominant source of macroeconomic fluctuations, but supply shocks had gained more importance over time; (ii) driving forces of demand shocks were consumption and fixed investment in the first cycle of 1985–1990, but shifted to fixed investment and world demand in the second cycle of 1991–1996 and the post‐1997 deflation period; and (c) macroeconomic policies did not play an important part either in initiating or counteracting cyclical fluctuations.

Date: 2005
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