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This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...
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banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks in 42 countries for the period 2001-2011. From the …
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banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks in 42 countries for the period 2001-2011. From the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638885
This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549289
This study examines the effect of foreign bank assets and presence on banking stability in the economies with strong … 86 banks in about 30 African economies, the findings on how foreign bank assets and presence influence banking stability … Africa. The initial findings show that foreign bank presence and assets promote banking stability. However, the positive …
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This study examines the effect of foreign bank assets and presence on banking stability in the economies with strong … 86 banks in about 30 African economies, the findings on how foreign bank assets and presence influence banking stability … Africa. The initial findings show that foreign bank presence and assets promote banking stability. However, the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232992
This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...
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This paper proposes and empirically validates four theories of why legal origin influences growth and welfare through finance. It is a natural extension of “Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?” by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003). We find only partial...
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This study examines the effect of foreign bank assets and presence on banking stability in the economies with strong … 86 banks in about 30 African economies, the findings on how foreign bank assets and presence influence banking stability … Africa. The initial findings show that foreign bank presence and assets promote banking stability. However, the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496937