Industrial structure and economic fluctuation¡ªEvidence from China

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• 作者：Xuebing Dong^a ;   ; ^{dxb@zju.edu.cn} ; Shunfeng Song^b ;   ; ^song@unr.edu ; Hui Zhu^c ;   ; ^{zhuhui1108@hotmail.com}
• 关键词：Economic growth ; Industrial structure ; Granger causality ; Structural factors
• 刊名：The Social Science Journals
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：September 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：48
• 期：3
• 页码：468-477
• 全文大小：422 K

文摘

Industrial structure evolves with economic development. Since the reform and opening up of the economy in 1978, China has undergone rapid economic growth and dramatic industrial restructuring, with the proportion of the primary, secondary and tertiary industry changed respectively from 28 % , 48 % and 24 % of GDP in 1978 to 11 % , 49 % and 40 % in 2008. Using panel data from 31 provinces in the past three decades, this paper empirically examined the relationship between economic growth and industrial structure. Based on results from unit root test, cointegration test, and Granger causality test, this paper concluded that the two variables are order-1 integrated, short-run economic fluctuation causes industrial structure disproportion, while a long-run bidirectional causal relationship exists between industry structure disproportion and economic aggregate fluctuation. This paper also investigated the determinants of China's industrial structure and found that influential factors include per capita GDP, domestic consumption propensity, urban¨Crural disparity, scale of the labor force and capital stock, property right protection, and administrative effectiveness.