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...

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 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...

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...

An attempt is made in this paper to query the existence or otherwise of a J-Curve in four West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) countries: namely The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. We use data from 1980Q1 to 2007Q4 and a bounds testing approach, with an autoregressive distributed lag...

Based on the huge financial commitments of the Federal Government of Nigeria on many oil and gas projects and the statutory duty of the government to render diverse socio-economical responsibilities to the people, it is worthy and justified to evaluate the economic profitability of a typical...

The importance of the policy formulation process cannot be overemphasized given the dynamism of regional integration in the word. The success of any regional integration scheme can be said to be founded on efficient policy making and implementation. Comparative regionalism offers a great deal of...

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...