Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142067 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] CBN Journal of Applied Statistics [ISSN:] 2476-8472 [Volume:] 03 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] The Central Bank of Nigeria [Place:] Abuja [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 99-124
Publisher: 
The Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja
Abstract: 
This paper re-examines the issue of the existence and the level of inflation threshold in the relationship between inflation and growth in Nigeria, using three different approaches that provide appropriate procedures for estimating the threshold level and inference. While Sarel's (1996) approach provides a threshold point estimate of 9.9 per cent that was not well identified by the data, the technique of Khan and Senhadji (2001) identifies a 10.5 per cent inflation threshold as statistically significant to explain the inflation-growth nexus in Nigeria. Also, the approach of Drukker et al (2005) suggests a two threshold point model with 11.2 and 12.0 per cent as the appropriate inflation threshold points. These results suggest that the threshold level of inflation above which inflation is inimical to growth is estimated at 10.5 to 12 per cent for Nigeria. Using the estimated two threshold point model, this paper did not find enough reasons to accept the null hypothesis of the super-neutrality of money, and therefore, suggest that there is a threshold level of inflation above which money is not super-neutral.
Subjects: 
threshold model
super-neutrality
inflation-growth nexus
inflation threshold points
JEL: 
E31
O40
Document Type: 
Article

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