A provincial view of global imbalances: regional capital flows in China

Samuel Cudré () and Mathias Hoffmann
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Samuel Cudré: McKinsey & Co

Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2017, vol. 153, issue 3, No 6, 573-599

Abstract: Abstract We model capital flows among Chinese provinces. A version of the present value model of the current account (PVMCA) with non-tradable goods and a savings wedge accounts for around 80% of the variation in inter-provincial capital flows over the 1986–2010 period. The PVMCA also allows us to identify the channels of external adjustment in capital flows at the province-level: variation in intertemporal prices (domestic and international interest rates, the provincial real exchange rate) and intertemporal variation in quantities (output, investment and government spending). We find that cross-province variation in the importance of these channels is correlated with the importance of private and state-owned enterprises and demographic factors. We discuss implications of our results for global imbalances in capital flows.

Keywords: China; Chinese provinces; Capital flows; Current account; Global imbalances; External adjustment; Present-value models; Regional business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 F32 F40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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