Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173624 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/17/018
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
A stable money demand function is essential when using monetary aggregate as a monetary policy. Thus, there is need to examine the stability of the money demand function in Nigeria after the deregulation of the financial sector. To achieve this, the study employed CUSUM (cumulative sum) and CUSUMSQ (CUSUM squared) tests after using autoregressive distributive lag bounds test to determine the existence of a long run relationship between monetary aggregate and its determinant. Results of the study show that a long-run relationship holds and that the demand for money is stable in Nigeria. In addition, the inflation rate is found to be a better proxy for an opportunity variable when compared to interest rate. The main implication of the study is that interest rate is ineffective as a monetary policy instrument in Nigeria.
Subjects: 
Stable
demand for money
bounds test
JEL: 
E41
C22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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