The study examines the impact of interest rate differential and exchange rate move-ment on the dynamics of Nigeria's international private capital flows from 2010Q1to 2019Q4. It uses the interest rate parity theory and the Markov Switching TimeVarying Transition Probability Modelling approach....

This study is designed to model and forecast Nigeria's stock market using the AllShare Index (ASI) as a proxy. By employing the Markov regime-switching autore-gressive (MS-AR) model with data from April 2005 to September 2019, the studyanalyzes the stock market volatility in three distinct...

This study examines the impact of oil price shocks on inflation in Nigeria. A Non-Linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) approach was applied on quarterlydata spanning 1999Q1 to 2018Q4. Results showed that oil price increases led toincrease in headline, core and food measures of inflation...

This study investigates the responses of consumer price index (CPI) to crude oil priceshocks in the pre- and post-2008 global financial crisis. The study used the StructuralVector Autoregressive model to analyse monthly data from 2000M01 to 2019M12.The impulse response analysis showed that for...

The challenge of employment growth in SSA countries goes beyond economic growthprospects to include structural and demographic dimensions. This study examinesthe relative contributions of structural changes and demographic factors to employ-ment growth for a set of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)...

Studies on money supply determinants focus on the Classicists or Monetarists, Key-nesians and post-Keynesians variables like income and money multiplier. This re-search extends the literature on money supply determinants to include the influ-ence of financial liberalization on money supply with...

This paper assesses the monetary policy response of the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) to increases in capital inflows into Nigeria using monthly time series datafrom January 2009 to December 2017. It presents an econometric assessment of thedegree to which the CBN sterilizes net foreign assets...

The global oil dynamics has significant implications for both oil exporting and importing small open economies. However, much of the literature on oil shocks is oriented towards advanced oil-importing economies. Micro-founded studies that explore the effects of oil shocks from the standpoint of...

The study examines the determinants of fiscal balance and the impact of the selected macroeconomic variables on the primary balance of government. It aims to estimate the fiscal reaction function for Nigeria and determine whether the implementation of fiscal policy is sustainable in the...

This study adopts the "buffer stock model" advanced by Frenkel and Jovanovic (1981) to estimate the optimal level of foreign reserves for Nigeria. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach (ARDL) was used to estimate the optimal foreign reserves function. The results show that the Nigeria's...