Research Article

The Asymmetric Effects of Oil Price Shocks on Aggregate Demand for Goods and Services in Ghana

Table 2

Asymmetric statistics for disaggregated components of aggregate demand and oil price.

StatisticsModel 1 (GDP)Model 2 (CONS)Model 3 (PINV)Model 4 (GOV)Model 5 (IMP)

0.2300.1650.6620.5210.323
-stat(37.94)(33.35)(3.456)(4.953)(20.57)
-0.0090.0970.086-0.029-0.119
-stat(0.0344)(6.687)(0.062)(0.014)(1.64)
21.15
(0.000)
57.95 (0.000)11.12 (0.003)13.42 (0.001)3.902 (0.060)
0.2456
(0.624)
0.0517 (0.822)0.8006 (0.379)0.9207
(0.346)
2.623
(0.118)
3.55232.82302.38372.41815.5922
CHSQ-SC18.9
(0.3983)
16.4 (0.5644)22.13 (0.2261)18.48
(0.4242)
18.19
(0.4434)
CHSQ-HET1.324
(0.2498)
0.271 (0.6026)0.03575 (0.8500)2.6
(0.1069)
4.824
(0.0281)
CHISQ-FF1.421
(0.2633)
0.2755 (0.8424)2.726 (0.0675)1.179
(0.3395)
3.917
(0.0229)
CHSQ-NOR0.9189
(0.6316)
(0.03676 (0.9818)0.753 (0.6863)0.3033
(0.8593)
0.1477
(0.9288)

NOTES: and represent the long-run coefficients associated with positive and negative price shocks, respectively. and represent the Wald test for long-run symmetry and short-run symmetry, respectively. Pesaran et al. [41] 5% critical values for are -3.23 and 4.35 for and , respectively.