An Analysis of Fiscal Deficit and Inflation Dynamics in Nigeria

Eche Nwachukwu Austine, Pam Dung Felix, Haruna Ibrahim Babagana and Ifeanyi Akadile Alexander
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Eche Nwachukwu Austine: Department of Economics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, Nigeria
Pam Dung Felix: Department of Economics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, Nigeria
Haruna Ibrahim Babagana: Department of Business Administration, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, Nigeria
Ifeanyi Akadile Alexander: Department of Economics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science, 2022, vol. 7, issue 3, 07-13

Abstract: The study examined the impact of fiscal policy on inflation in Nigeria, using Auto regressive distributed lag model (ARDL), for a period of 1981-2020. Secondary data was used in the study. The variables that were utilized in the study include inflation rate (INF), as the dependent variable; and a set of independent variables; government deficit financing (GDF), interest rate (INT) exchange rate (EXR) and gross domestic product (GDP). Stationarity test was carried out using augmented dickey-fuller test (ADF). The result showed a mix of integration of order 1(0) and 1(1) which lends credence to the adoption of ARDL model. More so, the cointegration test revealed the presence of long run relationship. As such, the result of the long-run ARDL cointegration revealed that GDF exert positive impact on INF. This however, suggests that, a percent increase in government deficit (GDF) will lead to an increase of about 2.77 percent in the rate of inflation. More so, EXR, and INT also exerts positive impact on INF in the long-run. Moreover, only GDP was found to exert negative impact on INF. In line with this finding, the study concluded that, fiscal deficit does not create inflation, but inflation causes the fiscal deficit, making it a one-way causation from inflation to the budget deficit. The study recommended that government should strike appropriate balance between recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure, that is, Fiscal deficit should not be geared towards recurrent expenditure to the detriment of capital expenditure which has the capacity to stimulate employment.

Date: 2022
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