This paper examines the dynamic interactions between insurance and economic growth in eight African countries for the period of 1970-2013. Insurance demand is measured by insurance penetration which accounts for income differences across the sample countries. A Bayesian Time Varying Parameter...

We provide empirical investigations into the role of political institutions in the bank market power-economic growth nexus using country-level data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. We employed a dynamic GMM model to achieve the above objective. The results show that banks with market...