Regional output spillovers in China: Estimates from a VAR model*

Nicolaas Groenewold, Lee Guoping and Anping Chen

Papers in Regional Science, 2007, vol. 86, issue 1, 101-122

Abstract: Abstract. Inter‐regional spillover effects are central to China's growth policy; yet relatively little is known about the strength and duration of these spillovers and whether their characteristics have changed over time. This article examines the spillover of output between the three commonly considered regions of China: coastal, central and western regions. We find that there are strong spillovers from the coastal region to both other regions, from the central region to the western region, but that shocks to the western region have no flow‐on effect on the other two regions. Thus, a policy of developing the coastal region is likely to indirectly benefit the other two regions. Our results suggest surprisingly little change in the pattern of spillovers over the period 1953–2003, although parameter instability in the beginning of the period limits the extent of possible analysis of this issue.

Date: 2007
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