The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which refers to a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...

This study examines the relationship between crude oil price and financial sector intermediary development in Nigeria over the period 1975-2011, using the autoregressive distributed lag approach to cointegration analysis. Four measures of financial intermediary development are used including an...

The trilogy among economic growth, social capital (SC), and financial development is exami ned based on three hypotheses: first, SC is important in the finance-growth nexus. Second, th ere is a threshold effect of SC in the finance-growth nexus. Third, the SC-finance-growth tril ogy depends on...

The present study aims to investigate the financial liberalisation and growth nexus in Pakistan by using the FM-OLS cointegration technique over the time period 1972 to 2016. The importance of the financial liberalisation process in Pakistan has been captured through the capital account...

An all-inclusive financial system is one of the channels through which information and communication technology (ICT) affects economic growth. Digital financial inclusion is an evolving phenomenon that enhances the ease of access to and availability of formal financial services. Further,...

Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate how an increase in information-sharing bureaus affects financial access. Methods: We employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive quantile regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004–2011. Information-sharing bureaus...

In this study, we rely on the extension of the endogenous growth theory to consider the role of ICT diffusion in the finance-growth nexus theoretically informed via the supply-leading and demand-following theses. Motivated by cur-rent realities highlighting the significance of information and...

Seeing that reshaped energy economics literature has adopted some new variables in energy demand function, the number of papers looking into the relationship between financial development and energy consumption at the aggregate level has been increasing over the last few years. This paper,...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how increasing information sharing bureaus affect financial access. For this reason, we have employed contemporary and non-contemporary interactive Quantile Regressions in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing bureaus are...

The authors employ panel Vector Error Correction Models (VECM) and cointegration framework to identify the existence and direction of the causal association between foreign direct investment (FDI) in financial services and financial development for 26 emerging economies for the period 2003-2015....