Understanding Chinese provincial real estate investment: A Global VAR perspective

Yang Chen, Ming He () and Simon Rudkin

Economic Modelling, 2017, vol. 67, issue C, 248-260

Abstract: This article investigates the spatial interdependence within China's real estate industry, a sector assuming increasing importance in the national economy. The Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) model allows us to explicitly address the presence of spatial linkages, including spillover and backwash effects, without a stringent requirement on data. Applying the model to monthly Chinese provincial data for the first time we highlight clear advantages in forecasting and steady-state value prediction. We also demonstrate through the contemporaneous correlation coefficients a growing divide between the previously highly industrialized north and the rest of China. The insights provided by our empirical study have clear value to a wide range of audiences, including researchers, policy makers, and business investors.

Keywords: Chinese provincial linkages; Real estate investment; Global VAR; Forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R15 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2016.12.019

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