Motivated by the persistent fall in oil prices due to incessant uncertainty-inducing events in recent years, this study empirically examined if economic growth in Africa's top five oil exporters (Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Libya, and Nigeria) is responding asymmetrically to changes in global...

Using the forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD) of the VAR model, this study critically examined the transmission of shocks among private savings, private investment and economic growth in Nigeria. Annual time series data from 1970-2012 were employed in the analysis. The Johansen...

This work studied the relationship between foreign private investment (FPI), capital formation and economic growth. Given the likely simultaneity between FPI, capital formation and growth, we used the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method of estimation to examine the nexus between these...