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The Determinants of Interest Rates in Microbanks : Age and Scale
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
This study investigates the legitimacy of the relatively high interest rates charged by those microfinance institutions (MFIs) which have been transformed into regulated commercial banks using information garnered from a panel of 1232 MFIs from 107 developing countries. Results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027298
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The Determinants of Interest Rates in Microfinance : Age, Scale and Organisational Charter
Nwachukwu, Jacinta - 2018
This study compares the responsiveness of microcredit interest rates to age, scale of lending and organisational charter. It uses an unbalanced panel of 300 MFIs from 107 developing countries from 2005 to 2015. Three key trends emerge from the results of a 2SLS regression. First, the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925540
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The determinants of interest rates in microfinance : age, scale and organisational charter
Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aziz, Aqsa; Tony-Okeke, Uchenna; … - 2018
This study compares the responsiveness of microcredit interest rates to age, scale of lending and organisational charter. It uses an unbalanced panel of 300 MFIs from 107 developing countries from 2005 to 2015. Three key trends emerge from the results of a 2SLS regression. First, the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817165
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Conditional Market Timing in the Mutual Fund Industry
Tchamyou, Vanessa S.; Asongu, Simplice - 2017
responsiveness by fund managers to investigated factors (aggregate liquidity, information asymmetry, volatility and market excess … evidence of volatility and market return in market timing, with the slim exception of allocation funds for which the pattern of … volatility is either U- or S-shaped. Second, the effect of volatility and market return are consistently positive and negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784886
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Conditional Market Timing in the Mutual Fund Industry
S. Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2017
responsiveness by fund managers to investigated factors (aggregate liquidity, information asymmetry, volatility and market excess … evidence of volatility and market return in market timing, with the slim exception of allocation funds for which the pattern of … volatility is either U- or S-shaped. Second, the effect of volatility and market return are consistently positive and negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952524
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Conditional market timing in the mutual fund industry
Tchamyou, Vanessa S.; Asongu, Simplice - 2017
responsiveness by fund managers to investigated factors (aggregate liquidity, information asymmetry, volatility and market excess … evidence of volatility and market return in market timing, with the slim exception of allocation funds for which the pattern of … volatility is either U- or S-shaped. Second, the effect of volatility and market return are consistently positive and negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698475
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Political Regimes and Stock Market Performance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936040
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Financial Sector transparency and net interest margins : should the private or public Sector lead financial Sector transparency?
Kusi, Baah Aye; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Gyeke-Dako, … - In: Research in international business and finance 54 (2020), pp. 1-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581331
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Financial sector transparency and net interest margins : should the private or public sector lead financial sector transparency?
Kusi, Baah Aye; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Gyeke-Dako, … - 2020
This study examines the effect of private and public sector led financial sector transparency on bank interest margins … more effective in dealing with bank interest margins, public sector-led financial transparency is found to be more … consistent in reducing bank interest margins across many more economies. Third, the study shows that the effect of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225071
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The determinants of interest rates in microfinance : age, scale and organizational charter
Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Aziz, Aqsa; Tony-Okeke, Uchenna; … - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 22 (2018) 3, pp. e135-e159
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971928