The study assesses the role of globalization-fuelled regionalization policies on financial allocation efficiency in … four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiencies … are used as dependent variables whereas seven bundled and unbundled globalization variables are employed as independent …

globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of … object is to assess if financial benefits of financial globalization are questionable until greater domestic financial … the financial development benefits of financial globalization. The estimation approach consists of assessing the impact of …

This paper examines how regionalization in the face of globalization has affected financial development in the context … of banking system efficiency in Africa. Results which are robust to financial system efficiency and growth …/projects with deposits; (3) increase in welfare has positively affected the intermediary role of banks; (4) globalization tends to …