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DOMESTIC SAVINGS DYNAMICS AND CAPITAL FORMATION: BANK VS. NON-BANK PERSPECTIVES

James Terlumun Aondona·Mary Oluwakemi Abdullahi
Published 28 January 2025
Vol. 12, No. 1 (2024)
pp. 18-28
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  1. 1
    James Terlumun Aondona
    Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria
    NG
  2. 2
    Mary Oluwakemi Abdullahi
    Department of Economics, Kogi State University Ayigba, Kogi State, Nigeria
    NG

The study investigates the influence of capital formation in Bank and Non-Bank domestic saving in Nigeria. The researchers employed trend analysis and advanced econometrics tests to ascertain the impact of capital formation and economic growth in Nigeria. The variables used in the analysis were subjected to unit root test to determine whether the variables are stationary or not. The model was subjected to co-integration test to determine the long run relationship between capital formation, and economic growth in Nigeria for the period of 2006-2018. The Granger causality test was also used to determine the causality between capital formation, and economic growth in Nigeria for the period of 2008-2016. Findings revealed that none of the models was stationary at level but were all stationary at first difference. The results also show that there is a long run significant relationship that exists between the variables examined and there is a causal relationship between capital formation by bank and non-bank financial institutions through domestic savings in Nigeria within the period under study. The result also revealed a negative non-significant relationship between domestic savings and capital formation in Nigeria. The study recommends that policy formulators in Nigeria need to enact some investors’ friendly policies that will encourage, promote and attract more capital inflows (be it official or private inflows) and to provide a conducive and enabling environment for the gross fixed capital formation to thrive. There is need to play down on speculative businesses and to invest in the real sectors of the economy.

JournalJournal of Accounting and Financial Reporting
ISSN3065-0461
Volume / IssueVol. 12, No. 1 (2024)
Pages18-28
Published28 January 2025
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LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Aondona , J., Abdullahi, M. (2025). DOMESTIC SAVINGS DYNAMICS AND CAPITAL FORMATION: BANK VS. NON-BANK PERSPECTIVES. Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 18-28

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