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Currency union and foreign direct investment inflow : evidence from Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Adam, Anokye M. - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 63 (2013) 1/2, pp. 121-132

This study investigates the effect of currency union membership on foreign direct investment inflow to ECOWAS subregion. The study employed panel dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) to estimate a panel data of fifteen ECOWAS countries from 1995 to 2010 with the framework of the gravity model....

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Bulgarian banking : looking for sustainability

Minasjan, Garabed A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 95-114

In this work, we trace and analyze the emergence of the crisis in the Bulgarian banking system as well as the behavior of the central bank and other macroeconomic institutions. The average annual rate of growth in the net profits of the commercial banks for the period 2002-2008 amounted to...

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The impact of financial globalization and financialization on the economy in the current crisis through banking corporate governance

Azkunaga, Juan Antonio; San-Jose, Leire; … - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 79-94

This work analyzes the role of governance of financial entities in the current crisis. Neoliberal economic policies, deregulation and liberalization have characterized financial globalization, giving rise to the financialization of the economy. This paper, using the analysis-synthesis method,...

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On the simultaneous openness hypothesis : FDI, trade and TFP dynamics in Sub‑Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 9 (2020) 5, pp. 1-27

This study assesses the simultaneous openness hypothesis that trade modulates foreign direct investment (FDI) to induce positive net effects on total factor productivity (TFP) dynamics. Twenty‑five countries in Sub‑Saharan Africa and data for the period 1980 to 2014 are used. The empirical...

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The dynamic relationship between government debt, fiscal consolidation, and economic growth in South Africa : a threshold analysis

Buthelezi, Eugene Msizi; Nyatanga, Phocenah - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-23

This paper investigates the threshold impact of government debt on economic growth in the presence of fiscal consolidation in South Africa from 1979 to 2022. The autoregressive threshold regime (TAR) model and two-stage least squares (2SLS) are used. The contribution of the paper is on the...

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Investigating spillover effects between foreign exchange rate volatility and commodity price volatility in Uganda

Katusiime, Lorna - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/1, pp. 1-17

This study investigates the impact of commodity price volatility spillovers on financial sector stability. Specifically …, the study investigates the spillover effects between oil and food price volatility and the volatility of a key …/USD) exchange rate. Volatility spillover is examined using the Generalized Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) approach and Multivariate …

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Umbau der Finanzmärkte : übermäßiges Vertrauen in Marktrationalität hält an

Dullien, Sebastian - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 93 (2013), pp. 23-29

Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have reacted with a raft of new regulations to the US subprime mortgage crisis. The article argues that while these new rules actually touch many of the incentive and information problems which were instrumental in creating the crisis, they only address...

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Causes of the outbreak of the Eurozone crisis : the role of the USA and the European Central Bank monetary policy

Białek, Natalia - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 11 (2015) 2, pp. 47-63

This paper argues that the loose monetary policy of two of the world’s most important financial institutions-the US Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank-were ultimately responsible for the outburst of global financial crisis of 2008 - 09. Unusually low interest rates in 2001 -...

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Why have credit variables taken centre stage in predicting systemic banking crises?

Audit, Dooneshsingh; Nafis Alam - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 1, pp. 1-11

In this paper, we investigate the growing prominence of credit in the systemic banking crisis prediction literature. Through the application of the signal extraction model and multivariate probit panel regression, we evaluate the performance of the absolute change in credit-to-GDP ratio as an...

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Contagion of the subprime financial crisis on frontier stock markets : a copula analysis

Mohti, Wahbeeah; Dionísio, Andreia Teixeira Marques; … - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/15, pp. 1-14

This study assesses contagion from the USA subprime financial crisis on a large set of frontier stock markets. Copula models were used to investigate the structure of dependence between frontier markets and the USA, before and after the occurrence of the crisis. Statistically significant...

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