The relevance of domestic credit to an economy has spurred interest in studies that seek to examine the factors that determine it. In this study, the focus is to evaluate the role of exogenous factors in influencing domestic credit provision in Nigeria. The study used a monthly dataset that...

Our study forecasts the likelihood of firms resuming growth after periods of stagnation or declining sales. We employ machine learning methods, including Random Forest, LightGBM, and CatBoost, alongside logistic regression models. To address class imbalance, we incorporate oversampling...