Financial Deepening and Market Stability in Nigeria
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Date
2019
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Journal of Business School
Abstract
The study examined the contribution of financial deepening to Nigeria market stability
by evaluating the influence of financial deepening on financial market (Money, Capital
and foreign exchange) and commodity market (energy market and agriculture).. The
research employed multivariate regression in order to confirm the existence of
relationship that exists between the dependent variables (financial market and commodity
market) and the independent variable (financial deepening) from January 2007 to August
2017. The study empirically tested hypothesis “financial deepening has no significant
effect on market stability”. The results from this study shows a positive significant
relationship between financial deepening, foreign exchange market, money market,
energy market and the agricultural market in Nigeria while the capital market has a
positive but no significant relationship.
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Financial deepening, Financial market, Commodity market, Market stability
Citation
Akinyede O. M, (2018): Financial Deepening and financial market development in Nigeria. Journal of Business School, vol.1, issue.1, pp.23-29: December 2018