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The effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty
Kappel, Vivien - 2010
This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross …-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but … robust determinants of both income inequality and poverty. Finally, we find evidence that government spending leads to a …
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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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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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Evaluating the relationship between financial sustainability and socio-economic development of countries
Kremen, Viktoriia; Shkolnyk, Inna; Semenog, Andrii; … - In: Central European economic journal 6 (2019) 53, pp. 25-38
This paper examines the mainstream theories of "financial sustainability" and "financial development". It is suggested understanding "financial development" as the complex dynamic characteristics of the financial sector, which is formed under the influence of financial and economic policy...
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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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Financial development : a broader perspective
Reid, Richard - 2010
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking at how different financial systems evolve: how and why financial structures change during various stages of development, how best to measure them, and seeing what practical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907303
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Financial Development : A Broader Perspective
Reid, Richard - 2011
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking at how different financial systems evolve: how and why financial structures change during various stages of development, how best to measure them, and seeing what practical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132042
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Will Political Liberalization Bring About Financial Development?
Huang, Yongfu - 2006
This paper studies the effect of political liberalisation on financial development in two steps. First, the paper examines whether political liberalisation in terms of institutional improvement promotes financial development, using a panel dataset of 90 developed and developing countries over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733052
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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Corporatist and Liberal Market Economies
Graff, Michael - 2001
The paper describes tests of hypotheses from economic history and theory concerning the significance of financial development as a possible determinant of economic growth. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel data set covering 93 countries from 1970-90. It goes beyond existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124598