Member countries of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are always in the news regarding the prices and supply of crude oil to the international market. One of the economic reasons for this is liquidity and the desire to accumulate international reserves by the respective...

Member countries of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are always in the news regarding the prices and supply of crude oil to the international market. One of the economic reasons for this is liquidity and the desire to accumulate international reserves by the respective...

This paper examines the long-run impact of macroeconomic indicators such as interest rate, foreign capital flows, exchange rate, GDP growth, inflation and trade on stock market performance (market capitalization) in Nigeria. Using data drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI, 2018) and...

Purpose: The unhealthy drive for deposit in the banking sector has pushed many banks into unethical practices, thereby resulting in high-level corruption cases in the banking sector. The purpose of this study is to investigate the short- and long-run linkages between bank net interest income...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges of accountability and development in Nigeria. In the literature, corruption is seen as an indicator of a lack of political accountability in most countries of the world, especially in less developed countries such as Nigeria. The...

This study investigated the determinants of commercial banks¡¯ lending behaviour in the Nigerian context. The study aimed to test and confirm the effectiveness of the common determinants of commercial banks lending behaviour and how it affects the lending behaviour of commercial banks in...

In the second half of 2008, the world experienced financial and economic storm. Value of investments crashed and investors lost money to the extent of their exposure to financial markets. In the light of gradual global economic recovery from the effect of the financial crisis in recent times,...