Financial Development, Savings and Investment in South Africa: A Dynamic Causality Test

Brian Muyambiri and Nicholas Odhiambo

Global Economy Journal, 2017, vol. 17, issue 3, 10

Abstract: This study investigates the causal relationship between financial development and investment in South Africa during the period from 1976 to 2014. The study incorporates both bank-based and market-based segments of financial sector development. In addition, composite indices for bank-based and market-based financial development indicators are used as explanatory variables. The study incorporates savings as an intermittent variable – thereby creating a simple trivariate Granger-causality model. Using the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration and the ECM-based Granger-causality test, the study finds a unidirectional causal flow from investment to financial development, but only in the short run. In the long run, the study fails to find any causal relationship between financial development and investment. These results apply irrespective of whether bank-based or market-based financial development is used as a proxy for financial sector development. The findings of this study have important policy implications.

Keywords: South Africa; Investment; Bank-based financial development; Market-based financial development; Trivariate Granger-causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 G10 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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