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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788225403321

Autore

Obiora Kingsley

Titolo

Do Trading Partners Still Matter for Nigeria's Growth? A Contribution to the Debateon Decoupling and Spillovers / / Kingsley Obiora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-9814-6

1-4527-9849-4

1-282-84422-9

9786612844225

1-4518-7365-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (47 pages)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Financial crises - Nigeria - Econometric models

Econometrics

Finance: General

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Time-Series Models

Dynamic Quantile Regressions

Dynamic Treatment Effect Models

Diffusion Processes

Business Fluctuations

Cycles

Economic Integration

Economic Growth of Open Economies

Externalities

Energy: Demand and Supply

Prices

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Currency

Foreign exchange

Econometrics & economic statistics

Finance

Spillovers

Exchange rates

Vector autoregression

Oil prices



Emerging and frontier financial markets

Financial sector policy and analysis

Econometric analysis

Financial markets

International finance

Financial services industry

Nigeria Commerce Econometric models

Nigeria Economic conditions Econometric models

Nigeria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"October 2009."

Nota di contenuto

I. Introduction; II. Trade and Financial Linkages; 1. Nigeria's Trade Openness (in percent of GDP, 1991-2008); 2. Nigeria: Direction of Trade in Goods and Services (in percent of total, 1990-2007); 3. Nigeria: Main Exports Markets in the EU (1990-2007); 1. Partnership Between Nigerian Banks and Foreign Asset Managers; 4. Net Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria (in billions of US Dollars, 1980-2008); 5. Remittances to Nigeria (in millions of US Dollars, 1995-2007); 6. Business Cycle Correlations Between Nigeria and its Key Trading Partners

7. Quarterly Real GDP Growth RatesIII. Description of Data; 2. Results of Unit Root Tests Using the Ng-Perron Procedure; IV. Methodology; V. Results; A. Base Vector Autoregression Model; 3. Lag Length Selection; 4. Variance Decomposition for Nigeria's Real GDP (Base VAR Model); 5. Variance Decomposition for Nigeria's Real GDP (Extended VAR Model); 8. Nigeria: GDP Growth Responses to 1 Percent Shocks from Major Trading Partners and PPP-implied Exchange Rate (Base VAR Model); B. Extended Vector Autoregression Model

9. Nigeria: GDP Growth Responses to 1 Percent Shocks from Major Trading Partners, Oil Price Growth, and PPP-implied Exchange Rate (Extended VAR Model)VI. Channels of Spillovers; 10. Decomposition of Spillovers from Nigeria's Key Trading Partners; VII. Conclusions and Lessons for Policy; 1. VAR Granger Causality/Block Exogeneity Wald Test; References; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Should policymakers still be concerned about economic growth in trading partners? Have developing and emerging market countries decoupled from the US enough to grow despite significant recession in the US? Using VAR models, this paper addresses these questions for Nigeria in the context of the global crisis. The results seem to debunk the "decoupling theory" and suggest there are still significant spillovers from Nigeria's main trading partners, including the US, with trade and commodity price linkages being the dominant transmission channels. Given the sharp fall in both trade financing and commodity prices in aftermath of the crisis, these results provide some explanation to the realization of adverse second-round effects in Nigeria.