THE DYNAMIC CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OIL PRICE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN OIL-IMPORTING SSA COUNTRIES: A MULTIVARIATE MODEL

Motunrayo O. Akinsola, Nicholas M. Odhiambo

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https://doi.org/10.22190/FUEO210628015A
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217
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228

Abstract


This study examines the causal relationship between oil price and economic growth in 14 oil-importing countries in sub-Saharan Africa during the period 1990 to 2018. The countries are further divided into two groups, namely seven low-income countries (LICs) and seven middle-income countries (MICs) in order to test whether the causality between oil price and economic growth depends on the countries’ income levels. Unlike previous studies that used a bivariate model, this study employs a multivariate Granger-causality model, which incorporates oil consumption and real exchange rate as intermittent variables in a bivariate setting between oil price and economic growth. The study employs panel cointegration and the panel Granger-causality tests to examine this linkage. The results of the study show that in the short run, there is a bidirectional causality between oil price and economic growth for the entire dataset, and both for the LICs and MICs. However, in the long run, there is a bidirectional causal relationship between oil price and economic growth for the entire dataset and MICs, but a unidirectional causality from economic growth to oil price for the LICs. Overall, the study found a feedback relationship between oil price and economic growth to be predominant.  


Keywords

oil price, economic growth, panel analysis, Granger causality, low-income countries; middle-income countries

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