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How Would Monetary Policy Matter In The Proposed African Monetary Unions? Evidence From Output And Prices
Asongu, Simplice - In: The African Finance Journal 16 (2014) 2, pp. 34-63
-run nor in the long-term and; (2) with the exception of financial size that impacts inflation in the EAMZ in the short …
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Foreign direct investment, domestic investment and green growth in Nigeria : any spillovers?
Adejumo, Akintoye Victor; Asongu, Simplice - 2019
domestic or foreign investments in Nigeria. The results show that domestic investment increases CO2 emissions in the short run … investment, though may be exogenous to growth, has been identified to bring about productivity and ecological spillovers. In view … investments on green growth in Nigeria during the period 1970-2017. The empirical evidence is based on Auto-regressive Distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115869
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Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment and Green Growth in Nigeria : Any Spillovers?
Adejumo, Akintoye - 2019
domestic or foreign investments in Nigeria. The results show that domestic investment increases CO2 emissions in the short run … investment, though may be exogenous to growth, has been identified to bring about productivity and ecological spillovers. In view … investments on green growth in Nigeria during the period 1970-2017. The empirical evidence is based on Auto-regressive Distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860419
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Assessment of Energy Efficiency Investment in Onitsha Business Cluster, Nigeria
Dimnwobi, Stephen Kelechi; Nwokoye, Ebele; Igbanugo, Clement - 2022
investment in energy efficiency in the Onitsha plastic cluster, South-East, Nigeria. Self-administered questionnaires were … reduction benefits are the significant determinants of energy efficiency investment. However, firm structure, government … incentives, regulatory requirements, and reduction of carbon emission are insignificant drivers of EE investment decisions in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256323
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Extending the Frontiers of Financial Development for Sustainability of the MENA States: The Roles of Resource Abundance and Institutional Quality
Onifade, Stephen T.; Gyamfi, Bright Akwasi; Haouas, Ilham; … - 2023
Resource abundance characterizes economies within the MENA region from North Africa to the Middle East. As such, to improve financial development (FD) for regional economic sustainability, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the roles of natural resources abundance and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549365
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Extending the frontiers of financial development for sustainability of the MENA states : the roles of resource abundance and institutional quality
Onifade, Stephen T.; Gyamfi, Bright Akwasi; Haouas, Ilham; … - 2023
Resource abundance characterizes economies within the MENA region from North Africa to the Middle East. As such, to improve financial development (FD) for regional economic sustainability, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the roles of natural resources abundance and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339312
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A note on the long-run neutrality of monetary policy: new empirics
Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economic theory traditionally suggests that monetary policy can influence the business cycle, but not the long-run potential output. Despite well documented theoretical and empirical consensus on money neutrality in the literature, the role of money as an informational variable for monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108086
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Size, efficiency, market power, and economies of scale in the African banking sector
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big ba nks compared to small banks. One concern is that big banks might be using their market power to charge higher lending rates as they become larger, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contra st,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112176
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Market power and cost efficiency in the African banking industry
Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T.; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019
Purpose- In this study, we test the so-called 'Quiet Life Hypothesis' (QLH) which postulates that banks with market power are less efficient. Design/methodology/approach- We employ instrumental variable Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Tobit and Logistic regressions. The empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389135
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Size, efficiency, market power, and economies of scale in the African banking sector
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Financial Innovation 5 (2019) 1, pp. 1-22
There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big banks compared to small banks. One concern is that big banks might be using their market power to charge higher lending rates as they become larger, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contrast, several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602801