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 … policy autonomy of the central bank induce a negative impact on bank lending behaviour while those that apply strong macro …

The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in … 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be … having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one hand and on the other, that bank concentration which is a proxy …

, it assesses whether African banking institutions have benefited from liberalization policies in terms of bank returns …. Second, it models bank return and return uncertainty in the context of openness policies to examine fresh patterns for the …, while trade openness has increased bank returns and return uncertainties, financial openness and institutional …

dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The findings consistently reveal: (i …

includes (i) firms having between 20-40 percent of their working capital financed through borrowing from the bank; (ii) firms … unit. From the matching estimation, we find that whereas firms perform better with the aid of access to bank services, the …