This thesis focuses on financial development, economic growth and market volatility in Nigeria and South Africa. For Nigeria, the thesis examines the long-run causality between financial development and economic growth. It uses three measures of financial development: financial development index...

This paper examines the day of the week effect for the Nigerian and South African equity markets over pre-liberalisation and post-liberalisation periods. The paper uses Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Hetroskedasticity (EGARCH) model to estimate the day of the week effect both...

This paper examines the long-run relationship between financial development and economic growth in Nigeria using annual time series for the period 1960-2005. Multivariate Vector Autoregressive (VAR) technique is applied to examine the long-run relationship between financial development, growth...

Motivated by the significant role oil plays in the production of Bitcoin, we test whether its price can influence the realized volatility of Bitcoin returns. Using data over the period of January 27, 2017 (coinciding with the emergence of Bitcoin bubbles) to June 3, 2022, we conduct both the...