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This study seeks to examine the pass‐through effect of monetary policy tools on economic growth in Nigeria using quarterly time series data from Q12008 to Q42018. The study employed Augmented Dickey Fuller's unit root test, lag selection criteria, and impulse response function under Toda‐Yamamoto approach to examine the pass‐through effect of monetary policy tools on economic growth. The summary of the results is that, the dynamism in monetary policy tools through money supply remains inconsistent and the changes (either increase/decrease) in these elements could dampen down availability of credit to core private sectors thus hampering growth and development. This study therefore recommends; that monetary authority takes proactive measures to ensure sound and robust commercial banks that can facilitates substantial funds to core private sector to boost productivity of the economy. This can be achieve through close monitoring of banks and ensuring full implementations of indirect monetary policy tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the dynamic effects of external debt stocks on real economic growth in Nigeria—incorporating debt services, interest rate, inflation, and capital formation. The study utilizes annual time series from 1981 to 2017 employing the dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration bounds test methodology. Empirical findings indicated that external debt stocks and debt services have a significant effect on real economic growth both in the short and long run. The result of the pairwise conditional Granger causality gives a short run procyclical bidirectional nexus between capital formation and economic growth. Thus, external debt stocks affect real GDP via the channels of accumulated debts, debt services, and macroeconomic variable fluctuations in the long run. Result obtained supports the objective of the Nigerian Debt Management Office in optimally managing the nation's external debt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The empirical evidence on the nexus between monetary policy and economic growth remains ambiguous with mixed and differing results, depending on the country's characteristics, the choice of monetary policy variables employed, and recently, the place of financial inclusion in monetary policy formulation and transmission mechanism. This study explores the nexus between monetary policy and economic growth in Nigeria while accounting for the roles of interest rate, money supply, and financial inclusion over a base period of 2004q1 to 2020q4 and a projected period of 30 quarters. Using the dynamic simulation autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, the study finds that in the short run, only the effect of money supply on economic growth is statistically significant. However, in the long run, interest rate, money supply, and financial inclusion have statistically significant effects on economic growth. The results are supported by the plots of the dynamic simulated ARDL, where economic growth response is predicted at various time periods after forcing a ±1% change (positive and negative shocks) in interest rate, money supply, and financial inclusion. We, therefore, recommend among other things an aggressive financial inclusion strategy with clearly defined deliverables and timelines to reduce the percentage of persons excluded from the formal financial system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]