Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Mitch Warachka
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© 2014 Jacqueline M. Lee
Abstract
The Chinese stimulus package of 2008 was a response by the government to rebound the second largest economy from the effects of the Global Financial Crisis. The package was one of the largest, and arguably one of the most successful, in boosting demand and spurring growth through targeting infrastructure projects and consumer spending. This paper investigates whether the package had any spillover effects on the US industrial and consumption companies with large markets in China through the time series multiple regression technique. This paper found that Chinese net exports had some explanatory power over the consumption companies, and the US industrial companies were hurt by the stimulus package. The findings also suggest that there are more macroeconomic variables that have more explanatory power over the returns of the companies than the ones included in the regressions.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Jacqueline M., "Can the Chinese Economy Affect the US Stock Market? The Case of the 2008 Chinese Stimulus Package" (2014). CMC Senior Theses. 928.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/928
