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The Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth in Nigeria: Linear and Non-Linear Approaches


Shehu El-Rasheed

Abstract

The paper re-examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Nigeria. Both conventional ARDL and the  new Non-Linear ARDL approaches to cointegration were utilized over an annual data covering 1980 to 2016. The empirical result shows that relationship between financial development and economic growth is asymmetrical. The results further suggest that the  current effort by government towards developing the economy as contained in the economic recovery plan (ERGP) needs to consider  nonlinearities in modeling macroeconomic relationships.


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