The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of exchange rate shocks on foreign trade (exports and imports) of fifteen economies within the ECOWAS sub- region. To accomplish the goal of this paper, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) procedure was employed to investigate the impact...

This paper examined the relationship between consumption of energy varieties (total, electricity and road transport) and trade (export and import) in selected West African countries. Data spanning 1971 to 2010 was used to estimate vector error correction models (VECM) for 6 countries based on...