A Prototype Mobile Money Implementation in Nigeria
Researchers have shown that majority of the populace in the developing nations are rural dwellers that do not have access to basic financial services and are poor. This class of people are peasant farmers and petty traders who rely mostly on remittances from their wards and relations in major cities and abroad to meet their financial obligations at home. The methods of remittances are encumbered with challenges. Mobile money is a tool that allows individuals to make financial transactions...
A Post-Consolidation Assessment of Profitability in Nigerian Banks
Using stochastic frontier technique, this study examined the changes in the profit efficiency of Nigerian banks after the recapitalization exercise of central bank of Nigeria for the period 2006 to 2008. The results showed that the estimated profit efficiency scores for 2006, 2007 and 2008 for troubled banks were 0.79, 0.89 and 0.94, respectively while corresponding values for healthy banks were 0.47, 0.66 and 0.81. Average efficiency score of all sampled banks were 0.59, 0.75 and 0.86 fo...
A Perspective on Liquidity and Assets Management of Commercial Banks in Nigeria: Evidence from Some Selected Banks
This paper provides comprehensive analyses and prima facie evidences on determination of liquidity and asset management of selected Nigerian banks. The purpose of this study is to examine liquidity series of Nigerian banks with a view to indicating any weakness noticed. The study considers liquidity buffer of Nigerian banks and finds out how the policy of the Central Bank as a Lender of Last Result (LOLR) may affect banking in the period of liquidity crises. The paper collects time series...
A Multinomial Logit Analysis of Agricultural Credit Rationing by Commercial Banks in Nigeria
The study tried to identify the determinants influencing Commercial banks decision to ration agricultural credit in South-Western, Nigeria. Data for the analysis were sourced from the agricultural credit transactions of the banks. Evidence from the multinomial logit model estimated shows that the borrowers are heterogeneous. Farm size, previous income, enterprise type, coop membership, household net-worth and agricultural commercialization level are positive and significantly associated ...
A modelling of Ghanas inflation experience- 1960-2003
The study sought to ascertain the key determinants of inflation in Ghana for the past 40 years. Stylized facts about Ghana’s inflation experience indicate that since the country’s exit from the West African Currency Board soon after independence, inflation management has been ineffective despite two decades of vigorous reforms. Using the Johansen cointegration test and an error correction model, the paper identified inflation inertia changes in money and changes in Government of Ghana...
A Kalman Filter Approach to Fisher Effect- Evidence from Nigeria
This paper investigates evidence of a Fisher effect in Nigeria by employing quarterly CPI inflation and Nominal interest rates data. For a more robust result we conducted integration and cointegration tests in order to examine time-series properties of the variables. Using Co-integration and Kalman filter methodologies, the study did not find evidence of a full Fisher effect from 1961:1-2009:4. This result indicates that nominal interest rates do not respond one-for-one to changes in in...
A Comparative Performance Evaluation of the Nigerian Banking Sector in the Post – 2005 Consolidation: Through the Camel Rating System
Banking in Nigeria has undergone remarkable changes since 2005 bank consolidation. The era of arm chair banking has gone. It has become a different ball game in terms of competition and its inherent strategies. This transition eventually brings the Nigerian banks to be in need of capital, asset creation, earnings, liquidity and the management to manage the risk exposure of the aforementioned. In this era of banking, customers must know and understand their banks so that they can differe...
A Comparative Analysis of Human Capital Efficiency of Public and Private Banks in India
The purpose of the study is to make a comparative analysis of the human capital efficiency (HCE) of the private and public banks in India for the period 2005-06 to 2009-10. The study is based on the secondary data taken from the financial statements of the banks. Value added method has been used to measure the human capital efficiency of the banks. Exponential trend method, ANOVA and GAP Analysis has been used to measure the variation in the human capital efficiency of the private and p...
A Catering Model of Dividends and Share Repurchases
This paper develops a theoretical model to demonstrate that the firm’s payout/investment decision may be affected by the relative magnitude of dividend and repurchasing premia. The model shows that the manager of high-quality firm may pass up a positive NPV project in order to cater to investors’ demand for dividends or share repurchases (adverse selection problem) if the catering premia are substantial. On the other hand, the manager of low-quality firm may have strong incentives...
A Case for Non Interest Banking in Nigeria amidst the Collapsing Paradigms in the Global Economy
This paper argues for reconsideration and reevaluation of the underlying assumptions and paradigms of the world capitalist system in particular and that of economics in general. This is against the backdrop of an increasing discontent of majority of the world’s people against the growing inequality between the rich and the poor. It contends that the genesis of the problem is rooted in the concept of the selfish, individuated economic man, which has fueled our appetite for greed, sel...