The causal relationship between financial development and investment in BotswanaBrian Muyambiri and Nicholas Odhiambo No 22607, Working Papers from University of South Africa, Department of Economics Abstract: In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between financial development and investment in Botswana between 1976 and 2014, using the autoregressive distributed-lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. Unlike some previous studies, our study divides financial sector development into two segments, namely bank-based and market-based financial development. We also employ a trivariate Granger-causality model in order to address the omission-of-variable bias associated with a bivariate causality model. In order to capture the breadth and depth of the financial sector in the study country, we employ both bank- and market-based financial development indices. These indices are constructed from an array of bank- and market-based financial development indicators. Our results show that there is a bidirectional Granger-causal relationship between both bank-based and market-based financial development and investment in the short run. However, in the long run, a distinct causal flow is found to prevail only from investment to bank-based financial development. Keywords: Botswana; Investment; Bank-Based Financial Development; Market-Based Financial Development (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uza:wpaper:22607 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from University of South Africa, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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