Do trading partners still matter for Nigeria's growth? : a contribution to the debate on decoupling and spillovers

Do trading partners still matter for Nigeria's growth? : a contribution to the debate on decoupling and spillovers / prepared by Kingsley I. Obiora.

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 globa...

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Main Author: Obiora, Kingsley (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, and Review Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/09/218.
Subjects:
2008-2009
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises > Nigeria > Econometric models.
Commerce > Econometric models
Economic history
Financial crises > Econometric models
Nigeria > Commerce > Econometric models.
Nigeria > Economic conditions > Econometric models.
Nigeria
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 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.

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