Purpose: Financial dollarisation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is most persistent compared to other regions of the world. The purpose of this paper is to complement the existing scant literature on dollarisation in Africa by assessing the role of information sharing offices (public credit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the role of institutions on the remittances–output growth volatility relationship. Design/methodology/approach – The data set of this paper is limited to 71 remittances recipient countries. In an attempt to deal with endogeneity...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of institutions in the financial development-output growth volatility nexus. It provides new channels through which financial development can dampen the output growth volatilities of the countries under investigation....