New Evidence for Exports-Led Growth, Tradables-Led-Growth and Manufacturing-Led Growth: Causality Test Results for Turkey
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Utilizando datos trimestrales de Turquía para el periodo 1987-2004, primero testeamos la hipótesis sobre el Crecimiento Orientado a las Exportaciones (ELG) desde dos enfoques alternativos. Por un lado, si los resultados del test corroboran una relación de causalidad bidireccional entre el 'crecimiento de los retornos de las exportaciones' y el 'crecimiento económico', en los resultados no se encontró evidencia en la relación de causalidad entre 'la participación de las exportaciones en el PIB' y el 'crecimiento económico'. Por otro lado, encontramos evidencia de una relación causal bidireccional entre el crecimiento económico y la participación en el producto, de los bienes transables en general y los bienes manufacturados en particular. Los resultados del test de causalidad de Granger también muestran una evidencia de la relación causal unidireccional entre la 'participación de la minería en el producto' y el 'crecimiento económico'. Sin embargo, no existe evidencia de causalidad entre la participación en el producto de los bienes transables, en general, y cada subsector transable, en particular; en la proporción de exportaciones respecto al producto.
Using quarterly Turkish data for the period 1987-2004, we first test the Export-Led-Growth hypothesis in two alternative forms: while the test results are supportive of a bidirectional causal relationship between the "growth of export revenues" and "economic growth", we have not found any evidence of a causal relationship between the "share of exports in GDP" and "economic growth". On the other hand, we found evidence of bidirectional causality between the respective output shares of tradables, in general, and manufacturing, in particular, and economic growth. The Granger causality test results also produced evidence of a unidirectional causality running from the "share of mining in output" and "economic growth". However, there is no evidence of causality between the respective output shares of tradables, in general, and each sub-sector of tradables, in particular, and the share of exports in domestic output.
Using quarterly Turkish data for the period 1987-2004, we first test the Export-Led-Growth hypothesis in two alternative forms: while the test results are supportive of a bidirectional causal relationship between the "growth of export revenues" and "economic growth", we have not found any evidence of a causal relationship between the "share of exports in GDP" and "economic growth". On the other hand, we found evidence of bidirectional causality between the respective output shares of tradables, in general, and manufacturing, in particular, and economic growth. The Granger causality test results also produced evidence of a unidirectional causality running from the "share of mining in output" and "economic growth". However, there is no evidence of causality between the respective output shares of tradables, in general, and each sub-sector of tradables, in particular, and the share of exports in domestic output.
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