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The Speed And Quality Of China’S Economic Growth During The Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • LINHAI ZHAO

    (School of Economics and Finance, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, P. R. China)

  • KAO-JEN LIN

    (Business Administration, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the speed and quality of China’s economic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study defines high-quality economic growth as a growth rate with a low variance and adopts quarterly time-series data for China’s real GDP growth rate to analyze its regime switches and structural changes by estimating a conditional Markov chain model. The study further utilizes the estimated parameters to predict the smoothed probabilities of each of four joint states for China’s real GDP growth rate from 2021 Q4 to 2025 Q3. The primary finding of this study is that, during the period from 2020 Q1 to 2021 Q3, the outbreak of COVID-19 shocked China’s economy and its economic growth rate fluctuated dramatically, which resulted in its variance being relatively high. However, China’s economic growth rate is very likely to gradually stabilize (as evidenced by a low variance) and to grow at a medium-to-high speed with high quality during the forecast period.

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  • Linhai Zhao & Kao-Jen Lin, 2024. "The Speed And Quality Of China’S Economic Growth During The Covid-19 Pandemic," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 69(06), pages 1849-1865, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:serxxx:v:69:y:2024:i:06:n:s0217590822400021
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217590822400021
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    Keywords

    China’s high-quality growth; COVID-19 pandemic; conditional Markov chain model; regime switch; structural change;
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    JEL classification:

    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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