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Law, finance and investment : does legal origin matter in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - In: The review of black political economy 41 (2014) 2, pp. 145-175
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Law, finance and investment : does legal origin matter in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. The findings show that legal origin matters in the finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410386
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Law and finance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...
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Law and finance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - In: Brussels economic review 55 (2012) 4, pp. 385-408
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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … substitution of institutions and finance in investment. Results under many baseline and augmented scenarios are not consistent with …
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Law, politics and the quality of government in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate whether African democracies enjoy relatively better government quality compared to their counterparts with more autocratic inclinations. The empirical evidence is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496387
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Law, finance, economic growth and welfare : why does legal origin matter?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç …
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The economic impact of banking the unbanked : evidence from Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam; Love, Inessa - 2009
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The Economic Impact of Banking the Unbanked : Evidence From Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - 2009
This paper examines the effects of providing financial services to low-income individuals on entrepreneurial activity, employment, and income. The analysis exploits cross-time and cross-municipality variation in the opening of Banco Azteca in Mexico to measure these effects with a...
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The determinants of interest rates in microbanks : age and scale
Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This study investigates the legitimacy of the relatively high interest rates charged by those microfinance institutions (MFIs) which have been transformed into regulated commercial banks using information garnered from a panel of 1232 MFIs from 107 developing countries. Results show that...
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