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Capital Market, Financial Deepening and Nigeria’s Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence

Journal of Economic & Financial Studies

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Title Capital Market, Financial Deepening and Nigeria’s Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence
 
Creator Alenoghena, Raymond Osi
 
Subject
Capital market; Financial deepening; Economic growth.
E04; G02; F43.
 
Description This study investigates the contributions of capital market and financially deepening to economic growth in Nigeria over the period of 1981 to 2012.  The analysis involves examining the stochastic characteristics of each time series variable by testing their stationarity using Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test and estimates the error correction mechanism model. The study revealed that Stock Market Capitalization, Narrow Money Diversification (involving credit to the private sector) and Interest Rate significantly impacted the promotion of economic growth of the country during the period of study. Though, other measures of liquidity represented by Financial Development (FID) and Monetization Ratio (MTR) were not significant in explaining the trend in economic growth, they exhibited very strong coefficients in the process. The study recommends that Government and other stakeholders in the economy should take measures further to improve the liquidity of the financial market to enhance overall economic efficiency in the country. In addition to proper monetary policy management, the study further recommends that concrete steps be taken to improve the activities of the Nigerian stock market.
 
Publisher LAR Center Press
 
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Date 2014-08-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journalofeconomics.org/index.php/site/article/view/69
10.18533/jefs.v2i03.69
 
Source Journal of Economic & Financial Studies; Vol 2, No 04 (2014): August; 43-52
2379-9471
2379-9463
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journalofeconomics.org/index.php/site/article/view/69/238
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Raymond Osi Alenoghena
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