Financial Development, Trade Costs and Bilateral Trade Flows: Connecting the Nexus in ECOWAS
Abstract
Financial Development (FD) in both exporting and importing countries would be required to fund production and consumption, respectively. However, the extent to which this affects Economic Community of West African States-ECOWAS intra-regional trade, has not been empirically investigated, which motivates this study. It examines the pattern of trade, provides the level of FD and...
Published at Investment and Competitiveness in Africa
Pages 153 - 176
Published in 2017
Osabuohien, E., Efobi, U., Odebiyi, J and Fayomi, F
Odebiyi John » I am a PhD holder with research and teaching responsibilities in the department of Economics and development studies in Covenant University. I possess a B.sc, M.sc and Ph.D degrees in Economics from Covenant University, Ota). My areas of research interest from general to specific are: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Monetary Economics and International Economics (international trade and... view full profile
