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 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...

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 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 1980 Q1 to 2007 Q4. The results indicate that in both...