What Causes What? Panel Cointegration Approach on Investment in Telecommunication and Economic Growth: Case of Asian Countries

Bilal Mehmood () and Wasif Siddiqui ()
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Wasif Siddiqui: Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan

Romanian Economic Journal, 2013, vol. 16, issue 47, 3-16

Abstract: This study empirically examines long run relationship between investment in telecommunication and economic growth in selected Asian countries. We resort to econometric tests such as panel unit root tests and panel cointegration test purposed by Pedroni (1997, 1999) for annual data from 1990-2010 of 23 Asian countries. The empirical results suggest that there exists causality between economic growth and investment in telecommunication. Causality runs from investment in telecom to economic growth and not otherwise. Since telecommunication sector has an innate ability to contribute to economic growth in a dual fashion. Firstly, as a part of services sector and secondly as an expediter to other sectors of the economy. Policy recommendations are made on the basis of favorable findings in support of ICT-led growth.

Keywords: Telecommunication, Economic Growth, Panel Cointegration, Unit Root Tests, Network; Spillover. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C23 L96 O4 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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