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 …

This paper investigates estimation of extreme risk in a number of stock markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC …

option derivatives as useful risk management tool in commodity markets, while attuned to Islamic Shariah principles. The …

banking sector in Sudan. The analysis of moral hazard in this paper is based on two types of risks, credit default risk …, measured as the ratio of non-performing loans to the total size of loans for each bank, and operational risk measured as … insurance premium to risk based insurance premium policy. …