Financial Development and Energy Consumption Nexus in Nigeria: An Application of Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bound Testing Approach

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 816 - 821, 01.09.2015

Hamisu Sadi Ali Zulkornain Bin Yusop Law Siong Hook

Abstract

Using autoregressive distributed lag bound test framework, the dynamics of financial development, economic growth, energy prices and energy
consumption was investigated in Nigeria for the period of 1972Q1-2011Q4. The finding signifies that variables were cointegrated as null hypothesis
was rejected at 1% level of significance. In the short-run financial development has significant negative impact on fossil fuel consumption, economic
growth also shows the same relationship. However, energy prices have positive and significant influence on the consumption of fossil fuel. In the
long-run however, financial development has insignificant negative impact on energy consumption, and economic growth has negative but significant
impact on energy consumption, while energy prices has positive and significant impact on fossil fuel consumption. The policy recommendation
remains that Nigerian authority should try to explore other alternative sources of energy in order to curb the adverse effect of fossil fuel consumption
on the financial market and overall economic growth. Exploring the potentials of green energy is paramount in Nigeria which is more eco-friendly
and contain less carbon emissions.

Keywords

Financial development, Energy consumption, Oil prices