The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries / Barry Eichengreen, Yeongseop Rhee, Hui Tong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichengreen, Barry.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Rhee, Yeongseop.

Tong, Hui.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w10768.

NBER working paper series no. w10768

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2004.

Summary:

We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we disaggregate among commodity types and account for the endogeneity of Chinese exports. We confirm the tendency for China's exports to crowd out the exports of other Asian countries. But this effect is felt mainly in markets for consumer goods and hence by less-developed Asian countries, not in markets for capital goods or by the more advanced Asian economies for which machinery and equipment are a significant fraction of exports. At the same time, there has been a strong tendency for a rapidly growing China to suck in imports from its Asian neighbors. But this effect is mainly felt in markets for capital goods, where China's income elasticity of import demand is highest, and thus by the more advanced Asian economies. Hence, more and less developed Asian countries are being affected very differently by China's rise.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2004.