This study makes a cross sectional case in investigating the validity, or otherwise, of the finance-driven growth hypothesis in the ECOWAS countries using annual data from 1970 to 2008 for seven countries namely: Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. In...

This study queries the oil price-exchange rate linkage in Nigeria deploying data at daily frequency spanning January 2, 2009 to September 28, 2010. Two volatility models – the generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) and exponential GARCH (EGARCH) – were deployed to...

This paper extends previous studies in modeling and estimating demand for gasoline for Nigeria from 1977 to 2008. The ingenious attempt of this study, contrast to earlier studies on Nigeria and other developing countries, lies in its assumption of structural breaks in the long run relationship...

This study investigates the relationship between Economic Growth (GDP) and environmental quality in Nigeria. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is investigated and tested with the annual data of carbon emissions capita and GDP per capita from 1970-2005. EKC hypothesis postulates a...

This study investigates the impacts of oil price shocks on the macroeconomic performance in Nigeria using Vector Autoregression (VAR) approach. Forecast error variance decomposition is estimated using seven key macroeconomic variables namely, real gross domestic product, consumer price index,...

This paper extends previous studies in modeling and estimating energy demand functions for both gasoline and kerosene petroleum products for Nigeria from 1977 to 2008. In contrast to earlier studies on Nigeria and other developing countries, this study specifically tests for the possibility of...

This paper examines the long-run and short-run impacts of exchange rate and price changes on trade flows in Nigeria using exports and imports functions. The bounds testing (ARDL) approach to cointegration is applied on a quarterly data from 1980Q1 to 2007Q4. The results indicate that in both the...

This paper probed the long-run and short-run dynamics between stock prices and exchange rates in Nigeria using the Johansen and Gregory-Hansen cointegration analyses, causality test and Exponential General Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity modelling on daily data from January 2,...

This paper re-examined the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Nigeria. Unlike existing studies, we attempted to assess the information content of non-linearities in the finance–growth nexus for Nigeria. We also attempted to inventively gauge the impact of...

Natural gas has some positive macroeconomic implications for Nigeria since there is as much gas as there is oil in the country. Also, the overall dependence on oil will soon be reduced and there will be an increasing demand for gas. Oil currently accounts for over 90 percent of Nigeria's foreign...