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Finance and Democracy in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390784
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Determinants of bank lending performance
Ewert, Ralf; Schenk, Gerald - 1998
During the last years the lending business has come under considerable competitive pressure and bank managers often express concern regarding its profitability vis-a-vis other activities. This paper tries to empirically identify factors that are able to explain the financial performance of bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317383
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Banking and Finance, Historical Aspects and Theoretical Suggestions
Dahmén, Erik - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334798
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Does finance cause growth? Evidence from the origins of banking in Russia
Berkowitz, Daniel; Hoekstra, Mark; Schoors, Koen - 2012
This paper examines the effect of banking on economic growth in modern Russia. To overcome simultaneity and selection …, we exploit regional banking variation induced by the creation of ?specialized banks? (spetsbanks) in the last years of … uncorrelated with 15 predictors of future growth, including pre-banking income, education, anti-market sentiment, institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148665
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Finance and democracy in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410331
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Law and finance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011
This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410393
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Financial structure and income inequality
Brei, Michael; Ferri, Giovanni; Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979930
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Financial structure and income inequality
Brei, Michael; Ferri, Giovanni; Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098831
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Embedded supervision : how to build regulation into blockchain finance
Auer, Raphael A. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100850
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Types of banking institutions and economic growth : an endogenous growth model
Elmawazini, Khaled; Khiyar, Khiyar Abdalla; Al Galfy, Ahmad - 2015
There is mixed support for the hypothesis that the banking sector is a channel for economic growth. While most studies … impact of Islamic banking on economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332914