Economic growth and the development of telecommunications infrastructure in the G-20 countries: A panel-VAR approach

Rudra P. Pradhan, Mak Arvin, Neville R. Norman and Samadhan K. Bele

Telecommunications Policy, 2014, vol. 38, issue 7, 634-649

Abstract: This paper examines the linkages between the development of telecommunications infrastructure (DTI), economic growth, and four key indicators of operation of a modern economy: gross capital formation, foreign direct investment inflows, urbanization rates, and trade openness. By studying the G-20 countries over the period 1991–2012 and employing a panel vector auto-regressive model for detecting Granger causality, we find a network of long-run causal connections between these variables, including bidirectional causality between DTI and economic growth.

Keywords: Telecommunications infrastructure; Economic growth; Macroeconomic variables; Panel VAR; Granger causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2014.03.001

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