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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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Financial Development and Technology Diffusion
Comin, Diego; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
We examine the extent to which financial market development impacts the diffusion of 16 major technologies, looking across 55 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more capital-intensive technologies, but only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950622
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260860
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A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending
Canales, Rodrigo; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
local banking competition is key to determining which organizational structure provides better lending terms for small …
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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087427
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Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2006
We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US … banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754931