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Central Bank (BDCB) and the structure of the financial sector of Brunei Darussalam are presented. Lastly, the paper discusses …
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that drives the bank-related and stock exchange-based financial sectors in the short run. Stock exchange-based financial … development drives bank-related financial development and savings in both the short run and the long run. While, savings are found …. Further, only bank-related financial development is found to Granger-cause economic growth in Botswana. …
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This paper examines the effect of financial system development on oil-dominant economy of Nigeria using Zivot … study also differs from the usual yet unsatisfactory approach of measuring financial system development in Nigeria to build …
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whether mobile phones, economic growth, bank competition and stability matter for financial inclusion. Data from 49 countries …. There was evidence to show that financial inclusion responds positively and significantly to shocks in bank competition …, economic growth, mobile phones and bank stability. However, the results reveal that all the variables respond to one standard …
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neutral. Furthermore, when controlling for the sectoral allocation of financing, no specific instrument - e.g. bank credit or …
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The pre-eminence of Islamic finance from the perspective of economic growth has been a long-standing debate. In recent decades, there has been a paradigm shift from interest-based banking to Islamic financial system. This study intends to examine the dynamic interaction of Islamic financial...
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a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows … form of higher loan to GDP ratio leads to lower economic growth rate. We find that discrimination in bank lending, housing …
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This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel …-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability … effect of economic growth, and reverse causality in its estimation. Results show that bank stability significantly …
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A sound and efficient financial system is an indispensable ingredient of economic growth. It consists primarily of banks and capital markets, which channel savings into investments and other productive activities that contribute to economic growth and augment the economy's productive capacity....
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Recent key challenges highlight the need to revisit Asia's financial development. These include the region's growth slowdown since the global crisis, compounded by a less benign external environment; internal structural challenges, such as population aging; and the maturing of much of the region...
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