Foreign Exchange Rates Dynamics and Stock Price Behavior in Nigeria: A Sectoral Analysis
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[Thesis]
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Oloyin-Abdulhakeem, Bashirat Oluwafunke
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Abdullahi, I. B.
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Kwara State University (Nigeria)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019
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204 p.
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Ph.D.
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Kwara State University (Nigeria)
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2019
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The interdependence between foreign exchange rates dynamics and stock price behavior has been a debatable phenomenon all time long. It has also been an area of concern among foreign and local investors in building efficient hedging strategies and optimum portfolio. However, sectoral response to foreign exchange rate dynamics differs across sectors on the NigerianStock Market. Against this background, the studyinvestigates the effects of foreign exchange rate dynamics on stock price behavior of the Banking, Consumer Goods, Insurance and Oil and Gas Sectors in Nigeria. The specific objectives are to: (i) examine the causal relationship between foreign exchange rate and stock prices of different sectors in Nigeria; (ii) investigate the effects of foreign exchange rate dynamics on stock prices of different sectors in Nigeria; (iii) examine the volatility spillover effects of exchange rate on sectoral stock returns in Nigeria; and (iv) examine the volatility transmission effects among the banking, consumer goods, insurance and oil and gas sectors stock returns in Nigeria.Weekly and Monthly secondary data of the selected sectors were sourced from the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Central Bank of Nigeria between 2008 and 2018. The study employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to examine the effects of foreign exchange rate and other macroeconomic determinants, while Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Distributed Conditional Heteroskedasity (EGARCH) model was used to examine the volatility spillover effects of foreign exchange rates onthe selected sectors stock returns. Lastly,the BEKK-GARCH and the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) was used to examine the volatility transmission among the sectors. Findings revealed that: (i)