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Financial sector transparency, financial crises and market power : a cross-country evidence

Kusi, Baah Aye; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Gyeke-Dako, … - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 27 (2022) 4, pp. 4431-4450

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Financial sector transparency, financial crises and market power: A cross-country evidence

Kusi, Baah Aye; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Gyeke-Dako, … - 2020

The study investigates how financial sector transparency moderates the influence of financial crises on bank market … the study shows that while public sector-led financial sector transparency reduces bank market power, private sector …-led financial sector transparency promotes bank market power given that private sector-led transparency gives financial cost …

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

Asongu, Simplice - In: The South African journal of economics 83 (2015) 3, pp. 425-451

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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....

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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,...

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Information asymmetry and market power in the African banking industry

Boateng, Agyenim; Asongu, Simplice; Akamavi, Raphael; … - 2016

This study investigates the role of information sharing offices and its association with market power in the African banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks from 42 countries for the period 2001-2011. Five simultaneity-robust estimation techniques are employed,...

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ICT, information asymmetry and market power in African banking industry

Asongu, Simplice; Biekpe, Nicholas - In: Research in international business and finance 44 (2018), pp. 518-531

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The mobile phone, information sharing and financial sector development in Africa : a quantile regressions approach

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019

This study investigates linkages between the mobile phone, information sharing offices (ISO) and financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. ISO are private credit bureaus and public credit registries. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary and...

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ICT in reducing information asymmetry for financial sector competition

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2018

In this study, we examine the role of information and communication technology in complementing information sharing bureaus (or private credit bureaus and public credit registries) for financial sector competition. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector competition are employed,...

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Size, efficiency, market power, and economies of scale in the African banking sector

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018

, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contra st, several studies found that when bank size increases beyond certain … interest margins. This study examines the connection between bank size and efficiency to understand whether that relationship …-overlapping thresholds for bank size. We found two key results. First, bank size increases bank interest rate margins with an inverted U …

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