کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
963149 1479118 2014 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Does economic integration stimulate capital mobility? An analysis of four regional economic communities in Africa
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا یکپارچگی اقتصادی باعث تحرک سرمایه می شود؟ تجزیه و تحلیل چهار جوامع اقتصادی منطقه ای در آفریقا
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
It is well known that high levels of regional integration enable portfolio risk diversification and capital mobility. While there have been a number of empirical attempts to verify the presence of capital mobility using the Feldstein-Horioka (FH) approach, none of them to the best of our knowledge have explicitly examined capital mobility changes across regional economic groupings in Africa, analyzing sub-samples to compare effects of pre-versus post integration. Filling this gap in the literature, this paper analyzes how some major regional economic integration initiatives, such as SACU (South African Customs Union), UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union), COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) and ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States)) have influenced capital mobility in their member countries. To estimate the investment and savings relationship, we use Pedroni's (2004) fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) panel cointegration method, applying to a sample of 25 African countries for which annual data is available from 1960 to 2009. To assess robustness of our results, we also employ the fixed effects, random effects and Mark and Sul's (2003) dynamic OLS (DOLS) methods. Our findings suggest that international capital mobility has only slightly increased in the African countries due to these agreements.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money - Volume 29, March 2014, Pages 33-50
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