This paper aims at analyzing the bank-based versus market-based dichotomy of Kenya's financial system. This is in view … of the fact that the financial sector, which is bank dominated, is showing a clear tendency of the banking industry … that while superficially the bank-based - market-based contrasting may be justified by there being a dominant subsector in …

The relationship between bank competition, firm access to finance, and economic growth is a much debated topic in the … impact of bank competition on industry growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies. The results show that greater … competition. These results are robust to a variety of checks. The findings suggest that improving bank competition should be an …

control for banks' financial strength. Our results challenge the idea that bank credit fosters economic growth and that …

total bank deposit (DPS) were obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin and used to compute savings …

This study investigated the role banks play in economic growth. It used bank deposits and bank credit to the private … sector as variables for bank intermediation and real gross domestic product (RGDP) to proxy economic growth. The Regression … of RGDP as dependent variable against bank deposit and credit confirmed that banks through their intermediation function …