Has China's Economy Become More Stable and Inertial? Nonlinear Investigations Based on Structural Break and Duration Dependent Regime Switching Models

Angang Hu, Jie Lu and Zhengyan Xiao
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Angang Hu: School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Zhengyan Xiao: The Center for Applied Statistics, Renmin University of China

Annals of Economics and Finance, 2011, vol. 12, issue 1, 157-181

Abstract: In this study we use both the structural break model and duration dependent transition model to study the characteristics of China's GDP growth from 1953 to 2009. The empirical results show that China's economic growth had become more stable since the economic reform in the end of the 1970s, and had transformed from a "low growth rate, high volatility" state to a "high growth rate, low volatility" state. In contrast to other transitional countries, China's structural break did not happen immediately, but rather it experienced a long transition period (1977-1992) which shows that China's economic development has a strong "growth inertia".

Keywords: Structural break; Duration dependent transition; Growth inertia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 E61 N15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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