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Institutional structures and financial market development in Africa

Agyemang, Otuo Serebour; Gatsi, John Gartchie; Ansong, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15

Africa. Our paper contributes to the extant literature by using other financial market development variables-ease of access … influence the level of financial markets development in the context of Africa. We employ a two-step generalized method of moment … relevant in explaining ease of access to loans and venture capital availability in Africa. Based on these results, our paper …

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Technological Innovation in Africa : Financial Institutions Development vs Financial Markets Development

Mbanyele, William - 2022

This study employs the fixed effects identification strategy to examine the differential effects of financial institutions vs. financial markets on technological innovation in understudied African markets using a large country-industry sample. We provide evidence that the incentive effect of...

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Financial Markets and Economic Development in Africa

Ndikumana, Leonce - 2003

context of African countries. The paper presents stylized facts on the trends and patterns of financial development in Africa …

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Information Sharing and Conditional Financial Development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2016

This study examines conditional financial development from information sharing in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions (QR) which enable the assessment of the effect of information sharing throughout the conditional...

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Impact of Fed Tapering Announcements on North African Equity Markets

Assoumou-Ella, Giscard - 2017

We propose an empirical evaluation of the transmission of the Federal reserve policy announcements to the equity price indices of three countries: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia. The results of panel data tests allow us to highlight a signiﬁcant negative impact of three of the 19 monetary policy...

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The US Elections and Impact on Financial Markets with Zoom on Central Africa

Kingsly, Kelly - 2017

Elections generate worldwide attention in the major economies around the world and there is no exception when considering the world's largest economy, the United States. Trends in US election year and years after the election show that a pattern of market reaction, socio-economic predictions and...

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Information Asymmetry and Financial Development Dynamics in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2017

We examine policy thresholds of information sharing for financial development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Public credit registries (PCR) and private credit bureaus (PCB) are used as proxies for reducing information asymmetry whereas financial development includes all...

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The Origins of Financial Development : How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance

Levine, Ross - 2017

systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 – 1900 …

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Improving Financial Access in Africa : Insights from Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development

Asongu, Simplice - 2017

The study investigates interactions between information sharing offices, the coexistence of financial sub-systems and financial access. The empirical evidence is based on Quantile regressions in order to articulate countries with low, intermediate and high levels of financial access. The scope...

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African Financial Development Dynamics : Big Time Convergence

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

Africa), income-levels (low, middle, lower-middle and upper-middle), legal-origins (English common-law and French civil …

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