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Does Democracy Facilitate Economic Growth or Does Economic Growth Facilitate Democracy? An Empirical Study of Sub-Saharan Africa

Narayan, Paresh Kumar - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. As our … proxy for democracy we first use the democracy index constructed by Freedom House and then check the sensitivity of our … findings using, as an alternative proxy for democracy, the Legislative Index of Electoral Competitiveness (LIEC). We find …

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Has political instability contributed to price clustering on Fiji's stock market?

Narayan, Paresh Kumar; Smyth, Russell - In: Journal of Asian economics 28 (2013), pp. 125-130

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Has Political Instability Contributed to Price Clustering on Fiji’s Stock Market?

Narayan, Paresh Kumar - 2012

The goal of this paper is to examine evidence of stock price clustering on the South Pacific Stock Exchange, located in Fiji, and explore its determinants. We find that stock prices cluster at the decimal of 0 and 5, with almost half of prices settling on these two decimals. Upon investigating...

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The Relationship between Exchange Rates, Interest Rates and Australian Bank Returns

Jain, Ameeta - 2012

yields, there has only been limited research on Australian bank stock returns and key macro variables, such as interest rates … Australia New Zealand bank (ANZ), the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the National Australia Bank (NAB) and the Westpac …

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The relationship between exchange rates, interest rates and Australian bank returns

Jain, Ameeta; Narayan, Paresh Kumar; Thomson, Dianne - In: Applied economics letters 18 (2011) 10/12, pp. 967-972

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Some preliminary evidence of price discovery in Islamic banks

Narayan, Paresh Kumar; Sharma, Susan Sunila; … - In: Pacific-Basin finance journal 52 (2018), pp. 107-122

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Political Uncertainty and Corporate Investment : State-Level Evidence from Australia

Narayan, Paresh Kumar - 2017

We show that political uncertainty influences corporate investment at the Australian state-level. More specifically, we find that the political party that holds power and replacement of the State Premier are the most important and robust determinants of corporate investment. We also show that...

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