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Political regimes and stock market performance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This paper assesses the effect of political institutions on stock market performance in 14 African countries for which stock market data is available for the period 1990-2010. The estimation technique used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental Variable methodology. Political regime channels...

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The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - In: Journal of entrepreneurship in emerging economies : JEEE 8 (2016) 1, pp. 101-131

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Sino-African relations : some solutions and strategies to the policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice; Ssozi, John - In: Journal of African business 17 (2016) 1, pp. 33-51

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Unjust enrichment from official corruption in Africa : theory and model on how lenders have benefited

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

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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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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...

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The comparative inclusive human development of globalisation in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich...

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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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African development : beyond income convergence

Asongu, Simplice - In: The South African journal of economics 82 (2014) 3, pp. 334-353

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Terrorism and capital flight from Africa

Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice - 2016

We assess the effects of terrorism on capital flight in a panel of 29 African countries for which data is available for the period 1987-2008. The terrorism dynamics entail domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorisms. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments...

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