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The Economics and Finance Letters

February 2016, Volume 3, 2, pp 13-20

The Lead-Lag Relationships between Construction　Investment and GDP: Granger Causality Tests and Impulse Responses Using Japanese Data

Kazutaka Kurasawa

Kazutaka Kurasawa 1

  1. Associate Professor, Faculty of Management Information, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan 1

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Pages: 13-20

DOI: 10.18488/journal.29/2016.3.2/29.2.13.20

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Abstract:

This paper analyzes the lead-lag relationships between construction investment and GDP at business-cycle frequency by the tests of Granger causality and the impulse responses in the framework of the vector autoregression, using the annual Japanese data. The analysis find that private construction investment tends to lead GDP, not vice versa, in the Granger sense and is of value in predicting the course of GDP one year ahead. Government construction investment, on the other hand, tends to lag GDP.

Contribution/ Originality
This study is one of very few studies which have investigated empirically whether construction investment preceded the economic growth in business-cycle frequency within the methodological framework of Granger causality.

Keywords:

Construction investment, GDP, Vector autoregression, Granger causality, Impulse responses, Business cycle.

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