Private Sector Investments: The Implication of Deposit Money Banks’ Credits in Nigeria

Sonny Nwonodi Amadi, Victor Akidi and Samuel Biira
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Sonny Nwonodi Amadi: Department of Economics, Rivers State University, Nigeria
Victor Akidi: Department of Economics, Rivers State University, Nigeria
Samuel Biira: Department of Economics, Rivers State University, Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024, vol. 10, issue 12, 576-586

Abstract: Reported in this article is the empirical effect of deposit money banks’ credits on Nigeria’s private sector’s investments. The study was evaluated empirically over a period of forty-one years, from 1981 to 2021. Deposit money banks’ credits is proxied by bank credits, with interest rate and money supply moderating regressors while private sector investments is measured as private investments. Utilized for analysis are sourced secondary data from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin and the applied methods of analysis include descriptive statistic technique, Augmented Dickey-Fuller’s Unit Root test, Auto regressive Distributed Lag technique. The findings obtained showed clearly that private investments and banks’ credits were stable at levels, as cost of credit (interest rate) and money (liquidity) supply were stationary at first difference. In addition, banks’ credits had direct and significant effects on the regress and (private investments) in Nigeria, cost of credit had negative but significant bearing on private investments while money supply had positive and significant effects the independent variable. Lastly, there exists long-run equilibrium rapport among private investment, banks’ credits, interest (credit) rate and money supply at 5 percent critical level. Sequel to these findings, it is therefore concluded that deposit money banks’ credits had significant-positive effects on private sector investments in Nigeria in both short run and long run. It is thus, recommended among others that deposit money banks need encouragement to expand credit extensions to private sector operators for sustainable enhancement of investments in this sector of the economy.

Date: 2024
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