Year: 2013 | Month: December | Volume 58 | Issue 4
Interdepencies Between Aviation Demand and Economic Growth in India:Cointegration Equation Estimation
Bilal Mehmood
Amna Shahid
Zahid Irshad Younas
DOI:10.5958/J.0976-4666.58.4.017
Abstract:
The main purpose of the paper is to empirically examine the aviation-led growth hypothesis for India by testing causality between aviation and economic growth. We resort to econometric tests such as unit root tests and test of cointegration purposed by Johansen (1988). Fully Modified OLS,
Dynamic OLS and Conical Cointegration Regression are used to estimate the cointegration equation for time span of 1970 to 2012. Empirical results reveal the existence of relationship between aviation demand and economic growth. Graphic methods such as Cholesky Impulse Response function (both
accumulated and non-accumulated) and variance decomposition have also been applied to render the analysis rigorous. The positive contribution of aviation demand to economic growth is similar in all three estimation techniques of cointegration equation. Findings help in lime-lighting the importance of aviation industry in economic growth for a developing country like India.
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