Is the export-led growth hypothesis valid for Canada?

Titus Awokuse

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003, vol. 36, issue 1, 126-136

Abstract: Empirical evidence linking exports to economic growth has been mixed and inconclusive. This study re-examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for Canada by testing for Granger causality from exports to national output growth using vector error correction models (VECM) and the augmented vector autoregressive (VAR) methodology developed in Toda and Yamamoto (1995). Application of recent developments in time series modelling and the inclusion of relevant variables omitted in previous studies help to clarify the contradictory results from prior studies on the Canadian economy. The empirical results suggest that a long-run steady state exists among the model's six variables and that Granger causal flow is unidirectional from real exports to real GDP.

JEL-codes: C32 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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