Banking sector is important for various macroeconomic and microeconomic variables in terms of mobilization of funds, increasing savings, and providing alternative investment instruments suited to the every person by minimizing the risk of adverse selection and moral hazard, allocating funds to...

This article will be examine the short relationships between economic growth and insurance sector development in the Azerbaijan economy. The fixed-effect model was adopted and relevant data within the period of 2008 and 2012 were collated and analysed with the use of ordinary least squares...

This study examines the relationship between Financial Sector Development and Economic Growth in Ghana using time series data from 1980-2009. The study investigates empirically the impact of financial sector development on economic growth in Ghana using the Granger Causality Test, the Johansen...

The Chinese pension system is highly fragmented and decentralized, with governance standards, pension fund management practices, their regulation and supervision varying considerably both across the funded components of the Chinese pension system and across provinces. This paper describes the...

This study explores the nexus between insurance penetration and economic development in Vietnam during the period 1996-2020. By utilising the Autoregressive Lagging Distribution Model - ARDL, we find uni-directional causality and positive impacts of insurance market development on economic...

I build a dynamic capital structure model that demonstrates how business-cycle variations in expected growth rates, economic uncertainty, and risk premia influence firms' financing and default policies. Countercyclical fluctuations in risk prices, default probabilities, and default losses arise...

At year-end of 2016, upward trend of retail credit exposure on bank loans resumed. Growth was entirely due to residential loans segment in the context of consumer lending shrinking. Shift in the debt structure in favor of cheaper and long-term credits issued for residential purchases secured...

In recent years, the Vietnamese economy has shown signs of financial distress, and especially small banks have experienced serious liquidity and solvency problems. Based on the new policy of the State Bank of Vietnam, in order to ensure safe and effective banking operations, the Basel II accord...

Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between "carve-out" pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe and typical "add-on" pension funding in Western Europe and North America. We find no evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and...

Do government-sponsored bank recapitalization programs spur lending and reduce risk? This paper assesses the impact of Indonesia's bank recapitalization program on lending and bank risk following the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Using unique bank-level data, difference-in-differences...