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Financial Development, Savings and Investment in South Africa: A Dynamic Causality Test

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  • Muyambiri Brian
  • Odhiambo Nicholas

    (Department of Economics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)

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This study investigates the causal relationship between financial development and investment in South Africa during the period from 1976 to 2014. The study incorporates both bank-based and market-based segments of financial sector development. In addition, composite indices for bank-based and market-based financial development indicators are used as explanatory variables. The study incorporates savings as an intermittent variable – thereby creating a simple trivariate Granger-causality model. Using the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration and the ECM-based Granger-causality test, the study finds a unidirectional causal flow from investment to financial development, but only in the short run. In the long run, the study fails to find any causal relationship between financial development and investment. These results apply irrespective of whether bank-based or market-based financial development is used as a proxy for financial sector development. The findings of this study have important policy implications.

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  • Muyambiri Brian & Odhiambo Nicholas, 2017. "Financial Development, Savings and Investment in South Africa: A Dynamic Causality Test," Global Economy Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 17(3), pages 1-10, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:glecon:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:10:n:7
    DOI: 10.1515/gej-2017-0042
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    Keywords

    South Africa; Investment; Bank-based financial development; Market-based financial development; Trivariate Granger-causality;
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    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity

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