Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Development and Economic Growth

Najeeb Muhammad Nasir, Mohammed Ziaur Rehman and Nasir Ali

International Journal of Financial Research, 2017, vol. 8, issue 4, 228-239

Abstract: This study is an effort to explain and establish a relationship among foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth in Saudi Arabian context for the period of 1970 to 2015 by employing Vector Auto Regression (VAR) and modified Granger Casualty Models. The result of Johansen co-integration test illustrates that no long run co-integration can be established among the variables. VAR has established a link between economic growth, financial development and foreign direct investment. The Granger causality test also confirms that economic growth causes foreign direct investment and financial development which is a unidirectional causality running from economic growth towards foreign direct investment and financial development. No significant causality can be observed empirically between foreign direct investment and financial development. This feature can be attributed to the fact that Saudi Arabian economy is still heavily dependent on its oil resources which is the driving force behind growth. Impulse Response Function has been utilized in order to observe the response to the shocks among the variables.

Keywords: Saudi Arabia; foreign direct investment; financial development; economic growth; VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.5430/ijfr.v8n4p228

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