Fetene Bogale

Adama Science and Technology University | ASTU · Social Science

This study examines Ethiopia’s structural transformation by using the revealed comparative advantage approach using export data for years 1996–2018. Primary and low technology manufactured products have comparative advantage over other product groups for the periods 1996 to 2018. However, there is an improvement in all manufactured product categori...

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows in Ethiopia, however, the short- and long-run relationships between remittances and economic growth has not been adequately studied. Existing few studies also did not resolve the nature of causality between remittances and economic growth. This study attempted to...

This study investigated the direct link between foreign bank entry and economic growth in Sub-Sahara African countries using a dynamic generalized method of moment estimator. It also studied a comparative analysis on banking environment for SSA countries that open and restrict banking industries to foreign ownership using descriptive analysis. The...

This study examines the effect of the real exchange rate (RER) on the three sectors' trade balances in East Africa by using ARDL procedures. The linear ARDL results show that RER depreciation improves the manufacturing and mining trade balances, but worsens the agricultural trade balance in the long run. However, nonlinear ARDL results show an abse...

This paper investigates the effects of real exchange rates on manufacturing exports in 10 East African countries. The study uses pooled mean group and mean group estimators with an Autoregressive Distributed Lag procedure to analyze four classifications of manufacturing exports, unlike past studies that often examined aggregate exports by adopting...

This study investigates the effects of real exchange rate on trade balance in East African countries. In contrast to past studies that have often focused on one country in the region and adopted traditional empirical methods that are subject to shortcomings, the present study employed the ARDL procedure and investigated the issue in 10 East African...

The effect of devaluations on economies is one of the most controversial macroeconomic policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), both theoretically and empirically. This study uses panel data from 1995-2013 for 17 SSA countries and 17 non-Euro OECD economies. The main conclusion is that exchange rates devaluations and revaluations are an effective poli...

This research paper investigated the foreign exchange pass to domestic price in Ethiopia for the year 1981 to 2013 using Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration procedure. The result of the paper shows that foreign exchange pass to domestic price is not significant. Broad money supply, budget deficit and world commodity price index are...