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Remittances, finance and industrialisation in Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, … - 2019

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...

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Remittances, Finance and Industrialisation in Africa

Efobi, Uchenna - 2019

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation using a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893397

On the Substitution of Institutions and Finance in Investment

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

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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Essential information sharing thresholds for reducing market power in financial access : a study of the African banking industry

Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2016

This study investigates the role of information sharing offices (public credit registries and private credit bureaus) in reducing market power for financial access in the African banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks from 42 countries for the period 2001-2011....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542416

Diaspora remittance inflow, financial development and the industrialisation of Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; Okafor, … - 2016

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries for the period 1980-2014. The indirect impact is assessed through financial development channels. The empirical evidence is based on three interactive and non-interactive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542423

Is information diffusion a threat to market power for financial access? : insights from the African banking industry

Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; … - 2016

This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542439

Insurance policy thresholds for economic growth in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

This study investigates the role of insurance in economic growth on a panel of forty-eight countries in Africa for the period 2004-2014. The research question the study seeks to answer is the following: what thresholds of insurance penetration positively affect economic growth in Africa? The...

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Technology-driven information sharing and conditional financial development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Anyanwu, John C.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2017

Information technology is increasingly facilitating mechanisms by which information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers in the financial sector can be reduced in order to enhance financial access for human and economic development in developing countries. We examine conditional financial...

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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 3 (2017) 11, pp. 1-30

Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate how an increase in information-sharing bureaus affects financial access. Methods: We employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive quantile regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004–2011. Information-sharing bureaus...

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ICT, conflicts in financial intermediation and financial access : evidence of synergy and threshold effects

Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2017

In this study we investigate the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in conflicts of financial intermediation for financial access. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary (or current values) and non-contemporary (or lagged by a year) quantile regressions in 53 African...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758366