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Exchange rate volatility--economic growth nexus in Uganda

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  • Lorna Katusiime
  • Frank W. Agbola
  • Abul Shamsuddin

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The global financial crisis has disrupted trade and capital flows in most developing economies, resulting in an increased volatility of exchange rates. We develop an autoregressive distributed lag model to investigate the effect of exchange rate volatility on economic growth in Uganda. Using data spanning the period 1960--2011, we find that exchange rate volatility positively affects economic growth in Uganda in both the short run and the long run. However, in the short run, political instability negatively moderates the exchange rate volatility--economic growth nexus. These results are robust to alternative specifications of the economic growth model.

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  • Lorna Katusiime & Frank W. Agbola & Abul Shamsuddin, 2016. "Exchange rate volatility--economic growth nexus in Uganda," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(26), pages 2428-2442, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:48:y:2016:i:26:p:2428-2442
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1122732
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