Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142051 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Citation: 
[Journal:] CBN Journal of Applied Statistics [ISSN:] 2476-8472 [Volume:] 02 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] The Central Bank of Nigeria [Place:] Abuja [Year:] 2011 [Pages:] 63-82
Publisher: 
The Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja
Abstract: 
On global scale, central banks' holdings of foreign reserves have escalated sharply in recent years. World international reserves holdings have risen significantly from US$1.2 trillion in 1995 to nearly US$10.0 trillion in June 2011. Dominant among these reserves are concentrated in the hands of few countries. Ten major holders of foreign reserves are mostly from Asia. Oil exporting countries in Africa and the Middle East are not left out in this trend. Nigeria's foreign reserves rose from US$5.5 billion in 1999 to US$62.40 billion in July 2008, making Nigeria the twenty-fourth largest reserves holder in the world. This pace of reserves accumulation is occurring without regard to its diminishing marginal benefits and rising marginal costs. This study used an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to run a slightly modified econometrics "Buffer Stock Model" of Frenkel and Jovanovic (1981) to estimate the determinants of foreign reserves in Nigeria with focus on income, monetary policy rate, imports and exchange rate. The results debunked the existence of buffer stock model for reserves accumulation and provide strong evidence in support of income as the major determinant of reserves holdings in Nigeria.
Subjects: 
Foreign reserves
central bank
financial crisis
Nigeria
JEL: 
C22
F30
F31
Document Type: 
Article

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