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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...
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Dynamic Openness and Finance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Minkoua N., Jules R. - 2017
This study assesses dynamics of openness and finance in Africa by integrating financial development dynamics of depth, activity and size in the assessment of how financial, trade, institutional, political and other openness policies (of second generation structural and institutional reforms)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784898
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African Stock Market Performance Dynamics: A Multidimensional Convergence Assessment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper dissects with great acuteness, the issues of convergence in financial performance dynamics in the African continent through the lenses of stock market capitalization, value traded, turnover and number of listed companies. The empirical evidence is premised on 11 homogenous panels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390786
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Democracy and Stock Market Performance in African Countries
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
Purpose - This paper assesses the incidence of political institutions on stock market performance dynamics in Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The estimation technique used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental Variable methodology. Channels of democracy, polity and autocracy are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390782
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Government Quality Determinants of Stock Market Performance in African Countries
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
How do government policies and institutions affect stock market performance? As stock markets grow broader and deeper in African countries, the question becomes more critical. Government quality dynamics of corruption-control, government-effectiveness, political-stability or no violence, voice &...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390785
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Political Regimes and Stock Market Performance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This paper assesses the effect of political institutions on stock market performance in 14 African countries for which stock market data is available for the period 1990-2010. The estimation technique used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental Variable methodology. Political regime channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596348
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956950
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Public debt-investment nexus: The significance of investment-generation policy in West Africa
Fagbemi, Fisayo; Adeosun, Opeoluwa A. - 2020
The study examines the long run relationship and interconnections between public debt and domestic investment in 13 … Squares (FMOLS), debt (% of GDP) and external debt have an insignificant effect on investment in the long run, suggesting the … negligible effect of public debt on the level of investments. But domestic investment Granger causes public debt indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389237
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Post-Crisis Bank Liquidity Risk Management Disclosure
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2010
Purpose - This work seeks to investigate post-crisis measures banks have adopted in a bid to manage liquidity risk. It is based on the fact that the financial liquidity market was greatly affected during the recent economic turmoil and financial meltdown. During the crisis, liquidity risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390763
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Finance and Democracy in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390784