Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249523 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
KBA Centre for Research on Financial Markets and Policy Working Paper Series No. 22
Publisher: 
Kenya Bankers Association (KBA), Nairobi
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the effect of government domestic borrowing on private investment using an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to test for long-run and shortrun co-integration relationship between the independent variables and Gross fixed capital formation. The findings show that Domestic Debt has a negative and significant relationship with Gross fixed capital formation even though this relationship diminishes in the long run. The findings confirm that excessive domestic borrowing by the government can negatively affect investment and eventually hurt economic growth. The paper recommends the need for the government to come up with policies to govern domestic borrowing and interest rates in addition to policies that encourage financial development through boosting Small and Micro enterprises lending to encourage local investment.
Subjects: 
Government Borrowing
Gross Domestic Savings
real interest rate
Domestic Private Investment
ARDL
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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