Explaining Investment in the WAEMU

July 1, 1998

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Athanasios Vamvakidis. Explaining Investment in the WAEMU, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper estimates an empirical model for investment in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a region with relatively low investment shares, using annual data for the period 1970-95. Cross-country and time-series evidence shows that openness to international trade, competition in the domestic market, freedom of international capital transactions, and low dependency ratios are positively correlated with investment in the WAEMU region.

Subject: Competition, Deflation, Econometric analysis, Expenditure, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Logit models, Prices, Public investment spending, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Africa, Competition, Deflation, Economy, GDP, Investment, Investment decision, Investment model, Investment share, Logit models, Public investment spending, Real exchange rates, Share, Trade share, WAEMU economy, WP

Publication Details

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23
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Working Paper No. 1998/099
Stock No:

WPIEA0991998
ISBN:

9781451852240
ISSN:

1018-5941

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