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 …

The paper investigates whether the effects of monetary policy on firm investment can be transmitted through leverage …. The findings indicate that monetary contractions reduce investment for highly leveraged firms. The estimates imply that a … 1percentage point increase in leverage reduces investment by 0.109 percent through leverage. Robustness tests broadly …

cash and its equivalents even in the presence of potential investment opportunities. This suggests that establishing a …

The paper examines the interaction between risk, capital and operating efficiency in a simultaneous equation setting …