The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of ICT on financial development as measured by domestic credit to the private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study uses a panel of 30 countries and covers the period 1995 - 2019. The data come from a variety of sources and the method...

In Senegal, as elsewhere in the WAEMU zone, access to credit for vulnerable microentrepreneurs is a major concern despite the important role of traditional microfinance institutions. To effectively solve this problem, Islamic microfinance has been identified as an alternative offer, alongside...

Performance is not just a number: it can take all informational forms if it responds to these two functions – the conduct of action and the evaluation of results. Technical and technological performance highlights the progress that is developing. constantly and marks a company's ability to...

Under current conditions, many companies are in a crisis without their management being able to control these situations. The globalization of the market, the pressure exerted by competition, the continuous need for efficiency of activities with the falling prices, the growth dynamics of the...

This paper studies the influence of bankruptcy law (depending on whether the law is pro-lenders or pro-borrowers) on the borrowers propensity to demand the renegotiation of their debt, when there exist an asymmetrical information between lenders and borrowers. In the tradition of Law &...

Pour expliquer l'existence de règles de «stop-loss» dans les institutions financières, nous développons un modèle principal-agent, où une firme d'investissement (le principal) doit faire appel à l'expertise d'un opérateur (l'agent) pour investir dans un actif risqué et sophistiqué...

Aux États-Unis, les années 1990 consacrent la montée en puissance des fonds de capital-risque comme sources de financement pour les entreprises spécialisées dans les technologies de l'information. Plus précisément, les secteurs des logiciels et des communications reçoivent les montants...

The transformations of the finance sector linked to the emergence of new actors (pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds…) and its globalization have changed the rules of corporate governance and the competitive context of industrial companies. The theme of the influence between finance and...

In this paper, we reexamine empirically the finance/growth nexus. We argue that financial deepening should not only be assessed with familiar measures of financial activities outputs (e.g. credit volume), but also through its inputs (e.g. the relative number of employees in the financial...