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Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us

Barth, James R.; Caprio, Gerard Jr.; Levine, Ross - The MIT Press

luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan. In Guardians of Finance …

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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones

Asongu, Simplice A - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 859-873

With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...

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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment

Asongu, Simplice A - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1557-1574

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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Finance and growth: New evidence from Meta-analysis

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Purpose – In a meta-study, we have bridged the gap between the pros and cons of a questionable finance-growth nexus … genuine effect exists between financial development and economic growth. A finance-growth nexus might not be appealing in our … consistent with the mainstream positive finance-growth nexus should provide new scholarly insights into the relationship …

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Risk, capital and financial crisis: Evidence for GCC banks

Ghosh, Saibal - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 14 (2014) 3, pp. 145-157

Employing data on over 100 GCC banks for 1996e2011, we test the relation between risk and capital. Given the interlinkage between these two variables, the model employs a 3SLS estimation that takes on board this simultaneity. Consistent with the literature, risk is measured by the Z-score, while...

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Liberalization and financial sector competition: a critical contribution to the empirics with an African assessment

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigates how financial, trade, institutional and political liberalization policies have affected financial sector competition in Africa using updated data to appraise second generation reforms. The ‘freedom to trade’ and ‘economic freedom’ indices are employed. Hitherto,...

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How would monetary policy matter in the proposed African monetary unions? Evidence from output and prices

Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We analyze the effects of monetary policy on economic activity in the proposed African monetary unions. Findings broadly show that: (1) but for financial efficiency in the EAMZ, monetary policy variables affect output neither in the short-run nor in the long-term and; (2) with the exception of...

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Depositor discipline in Indian banking: Separating facts from folklore

Ghosh, Saibal; Das, Abhiman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The paper traces the determinants of depositor discipline in Indian banking. Using data for the period 1997:1 to 2002 …

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Market Discipline, Capital Adequacy and Bank Behaviour: Theory and Indian Evidence

Ghosh, Saibal; Das, Abhiman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

banking systems. The paper contributes to this debate by showing how market forces may motivate banks to select high capital …

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Size, Non-performing Loan, Capital and Productivity Change: Evidence from Indian State-owned Banks

Das, Abhiman; Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

While the relationship between portfolio risk and capital and its interrelationship with operating efficiency has been extensively studied, little work has been forthcoming on the interrelationships among credit risk, capital and productivity change. The paper makes an attempt to examine the...

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