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Linkages between Investment Flows and Financial Development: Causality Evidence from Selected African Countries
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012
-run Granger causality are employed. Usage of optimally specified econometric methods in contradiction to purely discretionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696004
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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103382
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How would population growth affect investment in the future? Asymmetric panel causality evidence for Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
corresponding short-run Granger causality analysis and the long-run ‘physical capital led investment’ nexus are consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862088
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Long-term effects of population growth on aggregate investment dynamics: selected country evidence for Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
perspectives of vector error correction and short-run Granger causality are used. Findings – In the long-run population growth will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862104
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Globalization, Financial Development and Regional Economic Dynamics: asymmetric panel evidence from Africa
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011
This paper examines how regionalization in the face of globalization has affected financial development in the context of banking system efficiency in Africa. Results which are robust to financial system efficiency and growth-led-finance nexus reveal that in the post-regionalization era: (1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862103
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Knowledge Economy and Financial Sector Competition in African Countries
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
The goal of this paper is to assess how knowledge economy (KE) plays out in financial sector competition. It suggests a practicable way to disentangle the effects of different components of KE on various financial sectors. The variables identified under the World Bank’s four knowledge economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887039
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New financial development indicators: with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775520
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Mobile banking and mobile phone penetration: which is more pro-poor in Africa?
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
The contribution of this paper to complement theoretical and qualitative mobile penetration literature with empirical evidence is twofold: firstly, we assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; secondly, the instrumentality of financial development dynamics in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775523
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May the Soul of the IFS Financial System Definition RIP in Developing Countries
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
In this paper, we dissect with great acuteness contemporary insufficiencies of the IFS (2008) definition of the financial system and conclude from sound theoretical underpinnings and empirical justifications that the foundation, on which it is based, while solid for developed countries, holds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079385
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The Effect of Intelligence on Financial Development: A Cross-Country Comparison
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
We assess the correlations between intelligence and financial development in 123 countries using data averages from 2000-2010. Human capital is measured in terms of IQ, cognitive ability & cognitive skills, while financial development is appreciated both from financial intermediary and stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166592