MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS AND BANK PERFORMANCE: TESTING THE RESILIENCE OF NIGERIAN BANKING SYSTEM PROFITABILITY
Abstract
This study examines the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on banks performance by testing the resilience of Nigerian banks profitability to shocks from the macroeconomic environment with quarterly data from 1986Q1 to 2018Q4 that coincide with the period of structural adjustment program in Nigeria to the current democratic dispensation using the impulse response functions and variance decompositions of Vector Autoregression method. The study reveals that Nigerian bank performance is not resilient to exchange rate, inflation, interest rate and net export shocks but resilient to unemployment and economic growth shocks using return on assets and return on equity as measure of bank performance. The non-resilience of bank performance to exchange rate, inflation, interest rate and net export shocks reflects a countercyclical relationship between bank performance and macroeconomic fluctuations while the resilience of bank performance to unemployment and economic growth shocks is indicative of a rocyclical relationship of bank performance to macroeconomic fluctuations. The study also reveals that about 20% of Bank profitability decline results from the macroeconomic fluctuations within 10quarters which represents about to 2% profitability decline per quarter from macroeconomic fluctuations with exchange rate and inflation showing greater declining effects on Nigerian bank profitability. Nigerian banks regulatory and supervisory authorities must therefore not ignore sound macroeconomic policies if bank failures are to be minimized, most especially the maintenance and sustenance favourable exchange rate regime.
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ISSN: 1596-9911
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