Artikel

Macro-determinants of short-term foreign debt in Ghana

This study tests the validity of the hypothesis that the regulatory and macroeconomic environments and the disparity between domestic and international interest rates are important determinants of short-term foreign debt stock in a developing economy like Ghana. This study employs a time series econometric analysis of annual secondary data covering the period 1970 to 2012. More specifically, the bounds testing approach is used to estimate the impact of potential determinants-identified in the theoretical and empirical literature-on the real stock of short-term foreign debt in Ghana. The study finds that a reduction in regulatory restrictions on external borrowing, a widening of the disparity between domestic and international interest rates, economic growth performance and domestic financial deepening lead to increases in the short-term foreign debt stock in both the long and short run, respectively. The short-term foreign debt stock reduces in response to an increase in trade openness in the short run, and to international debt relief initiatives by multilateral development institutions in the long run.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Cogent Economics & Finance ; ISSN: 2332-2039 ; Volume: 7 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Abingdon: Taylor & Francis

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
capital accounts liberalization
short-term foreign debt
foreign borrowing

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brafu-Insaidoo, William Gabriel
Ahiakpor, Ferdinand
Ogeh, Fiador Vera
Cantah William G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Taylor & Francis
(wo)
Abingdon
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1080/23322039.2019.1630161
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Brafu-Insaidoo, William Gabriel
  • Ahiakpor, Ferdinand
  • Ogeh, Fiador Vera
  • Cantah William G.
  • Taylor & Francis

Entstanden

  • 2019

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