Abstract
Inflation is a major problem facing Nigeria as a country today. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), however, has made efforts to fight it using different policy measures, of which monetary policy is one of them. Thus, this study focuses on the impact of monetary policy on inflation control in Nigeria. The study is based on time series data from 1980 to 2019. The Augmented Dickey Fuller test, Johansen’s co-integration test, the Error Correction model (ECM) estimation was employed in the analysis. The variables include – exchange rate, inflation rate, money supply (% GDP), Treasury bill rate and monetary policy rate. The research findings showed that monetary policy has no significant impact on inflation control in Nigeria both in the short – run and long – run. Money supply has negative and insignificant impact on inflation control in Nigeria both in the short – run and long – run. Again, exchange rate has negative and insignificant effect on inflation control in Nigeria both in the short – run and long – run. The Treasury bill rate has negative but significant effect on inflation control in Nigeria in the short – run, while in the long – run it has positive but insignificant effect on inflation control in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that, Government should provide monetary policies that will preferred efficient provider of favourable environment in terms of the implementation of the appropriate monetary policy rate, exchange rate etc in order to attract both domestic and foreign investment which will create employment opportunities for the Nigerian populace and in turn lead to the expansion of the industries in the country.
 
 JEL: E42; E52; E31
Highlights
Monetary policy is the summation of the economic measures designed to regulatory authorities in-charge of regulating or managing the dynamic economic variables that affect changes in the prices of goods and services and the value of money
The main objective of this study is to explore the impact of monetary policy on inflation control in Nigeria
This research work studied the impact of monetary policy on inflation control in Nigeria from the period 1980 – 2019
Summary
Monetary policy is the summation of the economic measures designed to regulatory authorities in-charge of regulating or managing the dynamic economic variables that affect changes in the prices of goods and services and the value of money These dynamic economic variables are grouped as short-term macroeconomic factors and include instruments like demand and supply of money, interest/discount rates, volume of credits, and size of deposit money institutions’ reserves. These instruments are so volatile that their regulation/management has direct implications on the price stability goals of macroeconomic authorities. It is against this background that this study is conducted to ascertain the veracity of the link or relationship between monetary policy and the commonly dreaded economic phenomenon called inflation (Okwu, et al, 2011; Adesoye, et al, 2012)
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