Shifting Drivers of Growth: Policy Implications for ASEAN-5

Kong Yam Tan (), Tilak Abeysinghe and Khee Giap Tan
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Kong Yam Tan: Asia Competitiveness Institute and LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Asian Economic Papers, 2015, vol. 14, issue 1, 157-173

Abstract: How the old saying “when the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold” holds true has been the subject of many research papers on global and country group business cycle synchronization and divergence. Instead of business cycle linkages, however, this paper examines the evolution of the dependence of ASEAN-5 and other Asian economies on their traditional and emerging growth engines (the United States, EU, Japan, China, and India). For this we use a structural vector autoregression model that yields time-varying growth multiplier effects. Although China has overtaken others as a major export destination for ASEAN-5 and despite the United States losing much of its relative economic clout in Asia, the multiplier effects show that the United States is still about 1.5 times more growth-enhancing than China for ASEAN-5. The EU has also not lost out completely to China as a growth engine. China, however, has overtaken Japan to become about 1.88 times more growth enhancing than Japan for ASEAN-5. India has yet to become a significant growth engine, although it is of increasing importance to Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. These results call for new initiatives to balance the rising over-dependence on China. © 2015 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords: business cycle; linkage; link; ASEAN-5; structural vector autoregression model; major export destination; multiplier effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 F00 F40 F44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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