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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409823
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Dependence on external finance: an inherent industry characteristic?
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; von Furstenberg, George M. - 2006
Rajan and Zingales (1998) use U.S. Compustat firm data for the 1980s to obtain measures of manufacturing sectors? Dependence on External Finance (DEF). They take any differences in these measures to be structural/technological and thus applicable to other countries. Their joint assumptions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295819
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Heterogeneous patterns of financial development : implications for Asian financial integration
Bun, Linh; Singh, Nirvikar - 2015
This paper analyzes detailed differences in patterns of financial development across the major Asian economies, including three of the region's largest economies (China, Japan and South Korea), to understand how these differences might affect possibilities for greater regional financial...
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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - In: Financial innovation : FIN 3 (2017) 11, pp. 1-30
Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate how an increase in information-sharing bureaus affects financial access. Methods: We employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive quantile regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004–2011. Information-sharing bureaus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661722
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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate how increasing information sharing bureaus affect financial access. For this reason, we have employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive Quantile Regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing bureaus are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668525
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"Finance and growth" re-loaded
Méndez, Lizethe; Ongena, Steven - 2018
We assess the relationship between finance and growth over the period 1980-2014. We estimate a cross-country growth regression for 48 countries during 20 periods of 15 years starting in 1980 (to 1995) and ending in 1999 (to 2014). We use OLS and IV estimations and we find that: 1) overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918936
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The nexus of external debt, private investment and financial development : evidence from selected SACU countries
Muyambiri, Brian; Mabejane, John-Baptiste - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 21 (2023) 1, pp. 25-40
This paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between financial development, external debt and investment in Lesotho, Namibia and Eswatini from 1980-2020 using a multivariate Granger-causality model. The study considers trade, savings and economic growth as intermittent variables in the...
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Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa
Tchamyou, Vanessa S.; Erreygers, Guido; Cassimon, Danny - 2018
This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998776
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The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh
Husain, Humaira - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9
income inequality in Bangladesh utilizing annual data from 1984-2019. We employ both linear and non- linear autoregressive … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control … development. However, there exists no significant short run and long- run asymmetries between fertility and Inequality. Families …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553635
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The nexus between financial development and poverty reduction in Egypt
Kheir, Vivian Bushra - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 3 (2018) 2, pp. 40-55
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of financial development on poverty reduction … in Egypt. The paper also investigates whether financial development affects poverty via gross domestic product (GDP … specifications. The first is dependent on poverty by the ratio domestic credit to the private sector (percentage of GDP) and the …
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