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Global Spillovers of China's Monetary Policy

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  • Wenni Lei
  • Dongzhou Mei
  • Mi Zhang

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Spillovers from China's monetary policy have become increasingly obvious with China's growing importance in the global economy and its close economic and trade ties with the world. This study establishes a proxy structure vector autoregression model to investigate the magnitude and transmission channel of spillovers from China to global and regional economies, taking advantage of high‐frequency changes in asset prices in the financial markets to identify monetary policy shocks. The analysis reveals that China's monetary policy can affect the global economy by influencing international trade and commodity prices but there is no evidence of China's monetary policy affecting global financial variables. Tightness in China's monetary policy can cause a decline in world output whereas expansion in monetary policy can support global trade and output. This study also finds that the response of emerging Asian economies to China's monetary policy shock was nearly twice that of developed economies, while the transmission path did not change. The results of this study are consistent with the stylized fact that China's monetary policy plays an important role in the global trade and commodity cycle, although it does not drive the global financial cycle.

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  • Wenni Lei & Dongzhou Mei & Mi Zhang, 2024. "Global Spillovers of China's Monetary Policy," China & World Economy, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 32(3), pages 1-30, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:chinae:v:32:y:2024:i:3:p:1-30
    DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12530
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