, while enhancing competition and safeguarding consumers, in the general interest. Ensuring transparency in commercial … transparency regulations. Among the most incisive transformations is the spread of complex financial instruments and the broadening …

more decisive public intervention in support of transparency between banks and their customers. The effectiveness of the …

finance framework, with a specific focus on the transparency of price conditions. We interviewed a sample of 299 consumers … transparency, each series of loans was presented with three different sets of information, with an increasing level of detail. The …

the rich to the detriment of the poor. The use of financial and investment dimensions previously missing in the literature …

Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … lack of relevant data. This paper integrates previously missing investment and financial components in the assessment of … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …

private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private …

intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus; though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …

-variance framework. We find that an increase in expected output price will surely cause the risk averse firm to increase the inputs …’ demand, while an increase in expected energy price will surely cause the risk averse firm to decrease the demand for energy … risk averse firm to decrease the demands for the non-risky inputs. Furthermore, we investigate the two cases with only …