We provide empirical investigations into the nexus between bank market power economic growth using nationalized bank data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. The paper also explores how institutional quality factors influence the mechanisms through which banks with market power...

The Purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of financing preference of Micro and Small Enterprises whilst distinguishing a broader range of financing sources beyond what is typically the case within the corporate finance literature. Under the framework of ordinal logistic...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of macroeconomic factors on capital structure decisions of emerging firms. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data covering a period from 1990 to 2006 for 34 emerging market countries were analyzed using the seemingly unrelated...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of natural resources on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. Decomposing the measures of natural resource, in terms of contribution to GDP (oil rent (OR), mineral rent (MR) and forest rents (FRs)) and export drive (fuel...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of corporate governance on the flow of firm-specific information in an emerging market. Design/methodology/approach – Synchronicity is estimated under assumptions of contemporaneous and non-contemporaneous relationship between...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the day of the week effect on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) by using the GSE all-share index from November 1990 to August 2012. The presence of the day of the week effect has been reported on several markets. Design/methodology/approach...