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The Performance Of Arima And Arfima In Modelling The Exchange Rate Of Nigeria Currency To Other Currencies, Adewole Ayoade I.

Al-Bahir Journal for Engineering and Pure Sciences

Economic performance of a nation depends majorly on the stability of foreign exchange rate; the economic viability hangs on the exchange rate of local currencies against other currencies across the globe. Box – Jenkins Approach was employed to model the Naira exchange rate to other major currencies using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and The autoregressive fractional integral moving average (ARFIMA) models. This studies aimed on measuring forecast ability of Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) (p,d,q) and autoregressive fractional integral moving average (ARFIMA) (p, fd, q) models for stationary type series that exhibit features of Long memory properties. Results indicate …