Causal Relationships between Financial Development, Trade Openness and Economic Growth: The Case of Turkey
Abstract
Problem statement: The main objective of this study was to examine the causality relations between financial development, trade openness and economic growth (GDP) for the Turkish economy. Approach: In time series context, recently developed econometric techniques were used: namely the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) for unit root, Johansen and Juselius (JJ) for cointegration and Granger causality test for causal relationships. Results: The findings of the study showed that while trade openness has a positive effect, financial development has a negative effect on growth. Conclusion: Moreover, the Granger causality test results revealed the presence of bicausal relationship between financial development, trade openness and growth indicating that economic policies aimed at financial development and trade openness have a statistically significant impact on economic growth.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jssp.2009.33.42
Copyright: © 2009 Fatih Yucel. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Financial development
- trade openness
- economic growth
- a granger causality test
- cointegration test