An important reason for the disappointing effects of the financial reform programmes, as part of the structural adjustment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, stems from the strong focus of the adjustment programmes on the formal banking sector. A financial reform programme which does not...

This article provides new empirical evidence for the relevance of the signalling view on debt maturity, using data from a private bank in Vietnam. More specifically, we test the empirical predictions of the two main signalling models on debt maturity, that is, the models by Flannery (1986) and...

This article argues that the impact of income on institutional quality depends on state capture, and that a rise in income contributes to institutional development only if the degree of state capture is low.