The static and dynamic effects of oil rent on competitiveness: Application to the case of Saudi Arabia during the period 1970–2022

Hussain Mohammed Alobaid; Issaoui Fakhri

doi:10.24294/jipd.v8i5.4598

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The static and dynamic effects of oil rent on competitiveness: Application to the case of Saudi Arabia during the period 1970–2022

Hussain Mohammed Alobaid

Issaoui Fakhri

Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development 2024, 8(5), 4598; https://doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v8i5.4598

Submitted：08 Feb 2024

Accepted：18 Apr 2024

Published：16 May 2024

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore the static and dynamic effects of oil rent on competitiveness in Saudi Arabia’s economy during the period 1970–2022. In addition, we examined the short-run, strong and long-run relationships between exports and industry, inflation, energy use (oil rents) and agriculture using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach developed. The analysis showed that government spending will contribute to enhancing the competitive environment with a difference of one year. Moreover, the industry will contribute to increasing competitiveness for a positive relationship in the long term. The results stated that there is an insignificant relationship between competitiveness, inflation, and oil rents. The analysis also shows that inflation has a negative impact with statistical significance in the short term. In addition, the error correction model (ECM) coefficient is negative and has statistical significance at 0.76 at a 1% significant level, which indicates the existence of an error correction mechanism and thus the existence of a long-term relationship between the variables.

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