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Interest rate liberalization and economic growth in Zambia : a dynamic linkage
Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2009
This paper examines the dynamic impact of interest ratereforms on economic growth in Zambia—using two models in a stepwisefashion. In the first model, the efficacy of interest rate liberalization isexamined by regressing the interest rate on the level of financial deepening.In the second...
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Financial development and economic growth : a comparative study between Cameroon and South Africa
Djoumessi, Emilie Chanceline Kinfack - 2009
The causal relationship between financial development and economic growth is acontroversial issue. For developing countries, empirical studies have provided mixedresult. This study seeks to empirically explore the relationship and the causal linkbetween financial development and economic growth...
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250
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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income
Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010
This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448196
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Financial liberalization or financial development? Tests using Delphi-based index of liberalization
Groenewold, Nicolaas; Peng, Jiangang; Li, Guanzheng; … - 2008
components analysis to construct an index of financial liberalisation for China. Much of China’s financial development has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441682
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Financial Deregulation and Financial Development, and Subsequent Impact on Economic Growth in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
Grath, Patricia Mc - 2006
Results support Arestis’s theory, that low real interest rates do not prevent economic growth (though he related it to the regulation debate). Here in the deregulation environment, it also stands. Results also support Shaw’s assertion that financial liberalisation increases the monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476877
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Financial development and economic growth in corporatist and liberal market economies
Graff, M - 2003
The paper addresses the significance of financial development as a possible determinant of economic growth. Economists and policymakers in transition economies and emerging markets are certainly aware of the key role that, in a market economy, the financial system is supposed to play in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448648
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The financial system and economic growth in the United Kingdom: a disaggregated time series approach
Jobome, Gregory Ovie - 2002
This thesis examines the relationship between the development of the financial systemand economic growth in the United Kingdom, using a time series econometricmethodology. It extends the existing literature in three ways. First, it applies adisaggregated approach, testing the relationship not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461286
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Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: Bank Credit Maturity and Its Determinants
Tasic, Nikola - 2008
This dissertation is an investigation into one of the important functions of the banking system: to transform short-term liquid deposits into long-term illiquid financial assets that can fund long gestation activities and, thus, raise the rate of economic growth. To investigate this function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463373
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The stock market in China: An endogenous adjustment process responding to the demands of economic reform and growth
Xu, L; Oh, K - 2010
Evaluations of China's stock market range from extremely favourable assessments that emphasise GDP growth rates …-term profitability to the exclusion of alternative interpretations. This paper investigates the stock market performance in China through … that China's stock market, which is mainly accessible to large state-owned enterprises (SOEs), can be seen as adaptive and …
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