Financial system regulation in a pandemic: Evidence from Nigeria

Uddin, Godwin (2021): Financial system regulation in a pandemic: Evidence from Nigeria. Published in: Academia Letters No. Article 567 (17 May 2021): pp. 1-9.

Abstract

Financial system soundness in world economies remains germane, but in the same vein, the COVID-19 outbreak had made governments scampering for any and every solution as experience has shown the need to incentivize businesses to enable economy-wide recovery. In this perspective, consideration of the Nigerian case is made, to re-echo possible collaboration by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and an operationally-associated agency - the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). This viewpoint shows the role that AMCON could play to recoup extended facilities, in view to ensure financial system soundness, amidst others. Thus, efforts to leverage on this collaboration could aid going forward a fruitful operational effectiveness of so established policy responses.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Central Bank of Nigeria; economic stimulus packages; Nigeria; financial system soundness; recession
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E52 - Monetary Policy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies; G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G28 - Government Policy and Regulation

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