This study analyses the implication of regulation and competition for stability in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) banking sector. We employ a Panel Structural Vector Autoregressive Model (P-SVAR) to investigate regulatory and competition shocks affecting stability in SSA banking sectors, using...

A major challenge to SME growth has been access to credit meanwhile literature exploring the effects of lending methodologies on credit access has paid little attention to how credit referencing information can influence the relationship. The study assessed the mediating influence of credit...