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The study examined those factors that determine the deposit money bank's lending behaviour to the private sector of the economy in Nigeria using annual time series data spanning from 1986 to 2017. Secondary data were sourced majorly from CBN Statistical Bulletin (2017). In measuring the variables, determinants of deposit money banks' lending behaviour to the private sector were subjected to bank-specific factors, regulation factors, financial deepening, and macroeconomic factors. The bank-specific factors were proxied by volume of deposit (VD) and lending rate (LDR), and the regulation factor was proxied by reserve requirement (RSR). Financial deepening was proxied by the ratio of the money supply to GDP (M2G). In contrast, macroeconomic variables were proxied by inflation (INF). The estimation techniques used for the study were the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, pairwise Granger causality test, and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL). It was found that the variables in the series were integrated of difference order l(0) and l(1), and there was a significant relationship between bank lending behaviours and the identified determinants. In addition, it was revealed that the variables move in the long run. However, among the variables of interest, the volume of deposits and M2G determines bank lending behaviour in the short and long run. At the same time, RSR, INF, and LDR retard lending to the private sector. The study also found that causality runs from the volume of deposits to private sector credit. Hence, the study concluded that there is a significant relationship between bank lending behaviour private sector and its determinants. It was recommended that bank lending rate be brought down or flexible to meet up the categories of borrowers since there is common knowledge that high-interest rate discourages borrowers and influence banks from selecting bad loan offer, which may affect the bank returns in the long run. Secondly, the reserve requirement dictated by CBN on deposit money banks should be reduced to enable banks to be more liquid for the private sector to access funds for their productive purposes. Inflation should be made below two digits, as inflation above a digit may be unfriendly to economic activities, affecting the private-sector output, which is pertinent to economic growth.
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