With extensive country and firm-level data sets, this paper first documents that the financial sectors of most Sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. The paper also finds that population density appears to be considerably...

This major Handbook consists of 29 contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance currently taking place within heterodox economics. There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ones can be identified

The focus of this contribution is on financial stability and the extent to which proposed regulatory frameworks deal effectively to avoid financial instability. While microprudential financial stability has been in place prior to and since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), macroprudential...