“…Macroeconomic data consist of GDP growth, inflation, FDI inflows, exchange rate and real interest rate. The data were used by previous studies, such as GDP growth (Fournier & Fall, 2017;Kersan-Skabic, 2017;and Beqiraj, Fedeli & Forte, 2018;and Edo, Osadolor & Dading, 2019), interest rate (Fournier & Fall, 2017;Kersan-Skabic, 2017;and Beqiraj, Fedeli & Forte, 2018), domestic investment, foreign investment, and inflation (Onafowora & Owoye, 2019), and exchange rate (Paret, 2017).…”