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<strong>Challenges</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Era</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Globalization</strong><br />

Edited by Emmanuel Obuah<br />

1995. These studies <strong>the</strong>refore confirm our results <strong>in</strong> country specific and cross country analyses<br />

respectively. In addition, <strong>the</strong> results <strong>in</strong>dicate that although OPENNESS significantly affects f<strong>in</strong>ancial<br />

development <strong>in</strong> Nigeria at 5 percent level, it is negatively signed. This implies that trade with <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> world h<strong>in</strong>ders f<strong>in</strong>ancial development <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> country dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> period under review. The result thus<br />

confirms <strong>the</strong> f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>of</strong> Do and Levchenko (2004). The reason for this could be traced to <strong>the</strong> fact that<br />

Nigeria is highly exposed to <strong>the</strong> external sector such that volatility <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> external sector greatly affects<br />

<strong>the</strong> Nigerian economy. The monocultural nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> economy and <strong>in</strong>herent rigidities make policies<br />

such as devaluation or deregulation and trade liberalization hurt <strong>the</strong> Nigerian f<strong>in</strong>ancial sector and <strong>the</strong><br />

economy more than ga<strong>in</strong>s derivable from such policies. This could also account for <strong>the</strong> low <strong>in</strong>fluence <strong>of</strong><br />

exchange rate (ER) on f<strong>in</strong>ancial development <strong>in</strong> this study.<br />

Table 3: The Parsimonious Error Correction Model<br />

Dependent Variable: FINDEV<br />

Variable Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic<br />

C 0.122207<br />

D(FINDEV (-1)) -0.308170<br />

D(DIR (-1))** -0.064718<br />

0.51748<br />

0.20664<br />

D(ER (-1)) 0.130201 0.07198<br />

D(OPENNESS (-1))*** -0.200620<br />

ECM (-1)** 0.138693<br />

R-squared: 0.362993 Adj. R-squared: 0.249242<br />

Source: Authors computation.<br />

Note: *** significant at 1%, ** significant at 5%, * significant at 10%<br />

Table 4: Summary <strong>of</strong> Diagnostic Tests for <strong>the</strong> Model<br />

0.23616<br />

-1.49135<br />

0.03077 -2.10336<br />

0.07572<br />

0.06444<br />

Akaike AIC: 4.967942<br />

1.80894<br />

-2.64952<br />

2.15237<br />

Schwarz SC: 5.237300<br />

F Test F Statistic Prob<br />

Breusch-Godfrey Serial Correlation LM Test: 0.427806 0.655986<br />

ARCH LM Test 0.036256 0.850154<br />

White Heteroskedasticity Test: (Cross Terms) 0.736149 0.672835<br />

White Heteroskedasticity Test: (No Cross Terms) 0.830662 0.556006<br />

Chow Breakpo<strong>in</strong>t Test 2.027667 0.117702<br />

Chow Forecast Test 0.739573 0.730086<br />

Jarque-Bera Normality Tests 0.660675 0.718681<br />

Ramsey RESET Test: 1.577323 0.218530<br />

Source: Authors computation.<br />

Table 4 above presents <strong>the</strong> results <strong>of</strong> relevant diagnostic tests for <strong>the</strong> model. The results <strong>in</strong> general are<br />

satisfactory. The Breusch-Godfrey Serial Correlation LM Test shows that <strong>the</strong>re is no evidence <strong>of</strong><br />

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