How oil price and exchange rate affect non-oil gdp of the oil-rich country – azerbaijan?


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Majidli F., Guliyev H.

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, vol.10, no.5, pp.123-130, 2020 (Scopus) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 10 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.32479/ijeep.9561
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy
  • Journal Indexes: Scopus, ABI/INFORM, EconLit, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Page Numbers: pp.123-130
  • Keywords: Azerbaijan, Cointegration Analysis, Exchange Rate, Fully Modified Ordinary Smallest Square Approach, Non-oil Gross Domestic Product, Oil Price
  • Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Identifying the economic factors that affect economic growth is an important issue for each economy. It is a matter of debate to determine the building blocks of non-oil Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, especially in oil-rich countries, such as Azerbaijan. Using the Fully Modified Ordinary Smallest Square approach between 2005 and 2019, this study aims to investigate the relationship between real non-oil GDP growth of Azerbaijan and exchange rate and oil prices. Zivot-Andrews unit root test is applied to deal with structural breaks in data and the Gregory-Hansen (GH) test forobustness. While conventional unit-root tests decision that the series are not stationary at their level, the Ziwot-Andrews test decision that the series is stationary with structural break. According to the GH test result, there is a structural break date in the long-run relationship between the real non-oil GDP growth and the oil price and the USD/AZN exchange rate in early 2009. According to Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squared results, the increase in oil price increases real non-oil GDP growth, and the increase in USD/AZN exchange rate has a decreasing effect on it. This study contains considerable information for future economic policies for oil-rich countries that want to develop the non-oil sector.