Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 265
Cover Image
Volatility of international commodity prices in times of Covid-19 : effects of oil supply and global demand shocks
Ezeaku, Hillary Chijindu; Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2020
This study examines the effects of oil supply and global demand shocks on the volatility of commodity prices in the … shocks on the volatility of agricultural and metal commodities whereas the latter reflect the share of variation in the … volatility of each commodity arising from each structural shock. Various patterns are provided on how metal and agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404401
Cover Image
Volatility of International Commodity Prices in Times of COVID-19 : Effects of Oil Supply and Global Demand Shocks
Ezeaku, Hillary; Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2021
This study examines the effects of oil supply and global demand shocks on the volatility of commodity prices in the … shocks on the volatility of agricultural and metal commodities whereas the latter reflect the share of variation in the … volatility of each commodity arising from each structural shock. Various patterns are provided on how metal and agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246759
Cover Image
Analysis of farmers' food price volatility and Nigeria's growth enhancement support scheme
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda Nduka; Asongu, Simplice - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation and … 13 (2021) 4, pp. 463-478
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596408
Cover Image
Farmers’ Food Price Volatility and Nigeria’s Growth Enhancement Support Scheme
Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
volatility at farm gate level. In number, 600 rural farmers were sampled across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Results … obtained from the use of a bivariate probit model show that farmers relied on the GESS for resolving food price volatility by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103600
Cover Image
An empirical retrospect of the impacts of government expenditures on economic growth : new evidence from the Nigerian economy
Onifade, Stephen T.; Çevik, Savaş; Erdoğan, Savaş; … - 2019
The impacts of public expenditures on economic growth have been revisited in this paper with respect to capital expenditure, recurrent expenditure and the government fiscal expansion in line with support for the budgetary allocations to various sectors in the context of the Nigerian economy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137618
Cover Image
Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998255
Cover Image
Mitigating the macroeconomic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa : policy synergies
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This study evaluates the economic impact of severe natural disasters in Africa using the generalized synthetic control method. In other words, it assesses how gross domestic product (GDP) would have been affected if severe natural disasters did not occur. Moreover, it explores the determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799847
Cover Image
The macroeconomic impact of recent political conflicts in Africa : generalized synthetic counterfactual evidence
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2021
This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the impact. We find that political crisis, protests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650707
Cover Image
The macroeconomic influence of recent political conflicts in Africa : generalized synthetic counterfactual evidence
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - In: The review of black political economy : analyzing … 51 (2024) 2, pp. 280-299
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580611
Cover Image
An Empirical Retrospect of the Impacts of Government Expenditures on Economic Growth : New Evidence from the Nigerian Economy
Onifade, Stephen Taiwo - 2020
The impacts of public expenditures on economic growth have been revisited in this paper with respect to capital expenditure, recurrent expenditure and the government fiscal expansion in line with support for the budgetary allocations to various sectors in the context of the Nigerian economy. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844878