Document Type
Article
Department
Economics
Publication Date
6-2016
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between exports and economic output for five major Asian economies using annual data in an expanded data set and employing unit root and cointegration analysis. It employs a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) that treats all variables in the modified production function as potentially endogenous and then determines via weak exogeneity tests whether some of the key variables can be treated as exogenous (omitted from the system). Johansen cointegration tests find a positive long-run relationship between exports and economic output for the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Cointegration tests find a negative long-run relationship between exports and economic output for India. The Block Granger causality tests and impulse response functions for the Philippines and Singapore find stronger causality from exports to economic output rather than the reverse. Granger causality tests in level form also find significant causality from exports to economic output. No causality exists between exports and economic output in the case of India. Exports seem to promote economic growth in three of the four countries that have cointegrated data, which supports the exports-led growth hypothesis found in some of the extant literature. The paper does not find cointegration for China because the variables are integrated of different orders from I(0) to I(2).
Publication Title
Business and Economic Research
Volume
6
Issue
2
First Page
30
Last Page
50
DOI
dx.doi.org/10.5296/ber.v6i2.9747
Comments
Published as HUANG, Jiayi; RAMIREZ, Miguel D.. Do Exports lead Economic Output in Five Asian Countries? A Cointegration and Granger Causality Analysis. Business and Economic Research, [S.l.], v. 6, n. 2, p. 30-50, july 2016. ISSN 2162-4860. Available at: <http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ber/article/view/9747/7911>
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