Does Inflation in China Affect the United States and Japan?

February 1, 2006

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Luke B Willard, and Tarhan Feyzioglu. Does Inflation in China Affect the United States and Japan?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 19, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

With China's share in global trade increasing rapidly, some argued in 2002-03 that China was exporting deflation to other countries as it was dumping cheap goods in mature markets. Later, others argued that China was sucking in commodities and thus causing sharp increases in global prices. The theoretical literature so far has provided mixed conclusions regarding the strength of international transmission of inflation. This paper uses a number of econometric techniques to assess the extent of the link between inflation rates between China and the United States and Japan. It finds only limited empirical evidence at the aggregate level for consumer price inflation in China leading to price changes in the United States and Japan. However, it finds some evidence that inflation in the United States has an impact on Chinese inflation, consistent with the literature that argues that inflation is propagated from the reserve currency economy to other economies. In either case, the impact is short lived. At a more disaggregate level, there appears to be stronger sector-specific linkages between prices in China and in the United States and Japan, both for food and at the household level for manufactured goods.

Subject: Consumer prices, Exports, Food prices, Import prices, Inflation, International trade, Prices

Keywords: Absolute value, China, Consumer prices, Deflation, Exports, Food prices, Global, Import prices, Inflation, Inflation in the United States, Trade, United States consumer price inflation, United States import price index, United States import price inflation, United States inflation, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

31
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Working Paper No. 2006/036
Stock No:

WPIEA2006036
ISBN:

9781451862966
ISSN:

1018-5941

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