Deposit money banks stocks return reactions to post financial crisis stress test result announcements in Nigeria
Umar, Kabiru1, Shakur, Faruk2.
The study examined the impact of post-financial crisis stress test results announcements on
stock return of DMBs in Nigeria over a thirty-One (31) days event window and one hundred
(100) days estimation window, for the period June 2013 to June 2016. The secondary data
used in the study was analyzed using event study methodology for a sample of 15 DMBs
drawn from population of twenty-two DMBs in Nigeria. The residuals of abnormal returns
over the event window were subjected to diagnostic tests for serial correlation, normality and
heteroskedasticity, the results indicated that the model was correctly specified. The result of
test of hypotheses indicated that there is no significant CAR before, on the days and after
post crisis stress test results announcements on stock returns of DMBs in Nigeria. Thus, the
study concluded that stress test result announcements post financial crisis has a positive
insignificant abnormal return before and on the day of announcements but negative
insignificant abnormal returns after the announcements on DMBs return on stocks post
financial crisis period in Nigeria.
Affiliation:
- Nigeria Police Academy, Nigeria
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
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