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Political Crises and Risk of Financial Contagion in Developing Countries: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
instability could pose a risk of financial contagion to emerging countries. With retrospect to the Kenyan political crisis, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390766
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Globalization, financial crisis and contagion: time-dynamic evidence from financial markets of developing countries
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
examines whether equity markets in emerging countries were vulnerable to contagion during the recent financial meltdown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390767
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The 2011 Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis: evidence of contagion from international financial markets
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
study is to investigate if any contagion effect occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and … heteroscedasticity biases based on correlation coefficients to examine if any contagion occurred across financial markets after the March … foreign exchange markets suffered from contagion, stock markets of Taiwan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and South Africa witnessed a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390769
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African Stock Market Performance Dynamics: A Multidimensional Convergence Assessment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper dissects with great acuteness, the issues of convergence in financial performance dynamics in the African continent through the lenses of stock market capitalization, value traded, turnover and number of listed companies. The empirical evidence is premised on 11 homogenous panels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390786
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Are financial benefits of financial globalization questionable until greater domestic financial development has taken place?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390787
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Globalization, (fighting) corruption and development: how are these phenomena linearly and nonlinearly related in wealth effects?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - Is globalization instrumental in fighting corruption? Do wealth effects matter in this fight? Are findings valid when linearity assumptions are dropped? This paper assesses the Lalountas et al. (2011) hypotheses (conclusions) in the African context. Design/methodology/approach - Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390805
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Financial development dynamic thresholds of financial globalization: evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390810
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Globalization and Africa: implications for human development
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of trade and financial globalization on human development in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach - The estimation technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390811
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The Impact of Liberalisation Policies on Inequality in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Batuo, Michael E. - 2012
Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using updated panel data of 26 African countries spanning the period 1996-2010, this study examines the effect of liberalisation policies with particular focus on financial, trade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390816
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Inequality, poverty and quality of institutions: which freedom channels of globalization matter for Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure financial liberalization (KAOPEN) has a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390834