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Growth effects of financial market instruments: The Ghanaian experience
Mesagan, Ekundayo P.; Ogbuji, Isaac A.; Alimi, Yasiru O.; … - 2019
This study analyses the growth effects of financial market instruments in Ghana between 1991 and 2017. We use the ARDL … growth in Ghana. We recommend that the bank of Ghana should consider lowering the bank rate further from the current annual …
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Financial sector reforms and economic growth in Ghana : a dynamic ARDL model
Owusu, Erasmus L.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Contemporary economics 9 (2015) 2, pp. 181-192
This paper examines the relationship between financial sector reforms and sustainable economic growth in Ghana … insignificant impact on economic growth in Ghana. This supports numerous past studies that have reported mixed or inconclusive … financial sector policy reforms, affects economic growth in Ghana. This paper therefore recommends an increase and modernization …
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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ghana
Adusei, Michael - 2014
annual time series data (1971-2010) from Ghana. Three measures of financial development are used: domestic credit as a share … data suggests that financial development undermines economic growth in Ghana. The paper, therefore, cautions against … financial liberalization in Ghana …
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Economic growth in an oil-dominant economy of Nigeria : the role of financial system development
Ogbonna, Oliver E.; Mobosi, Ikechukwu A.; Ugwuoke, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-16
This paper examines the effect of financial system development on oil-dominant economy of Nigeria using Zivot-Andrews unit root test and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model over the period 1981 to 2015. The motivation of this paper is that the study distinguished the impact of financial...
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Influence of real exchange rate on the finance-growth nexus in the West African region
Ehigiamusoe, Kizito Uyi; Hooi Hooi Lean - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/23, pp. 1-21
This study examines the moderating effects of the real exchange rate and its volatility on the finance-growth nexus in the West African region. It also determines the marginal effects of financial development on economic growth at various levels of the real exchange rates and its volatility. The...
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Macroprudential policies at work : how do government-owned banks affect credit markets?
Capeleti, Paulo; Garcia, Márcio Gomes Pinto; Sanches, … - 2018
How countercyclical macroprudential credit policies affect the loan spread? To answer this question, we propose a microeconomic model of bank competition that contemplates differences in the behavior of public and private banks and the peculiarities of the market for corporate loans vis-a-vis...
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Effects of Trade on Growth in Nigeria’s Open Economy: Econometric Analysis - Effetti del commercio internazionale sulla crescita della Nigeria: un’analisi econometrica
Tombofa, Stephen S.; Karimo, Tamarauntari M. - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 67 (2014) 4, pp. 517-529
This study attempted to quantify the relationship between international trade and overall economic performance in Nigeria. Specifically, this study examined the correlation between economic growth and each of export performance and import penetration, as well as the effect of export performance,...
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Financial Development and Growth in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2022
This paper presents stylized facts on financial development in the CCA countries relative to their EM and LIC peers and assesses how financial development can boost growth in the CCA. Drawing on IMF’s multidimensional index of financial development, we find that CCA countries have made...
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Good Finance and Bad Finance : The Effects of Different Aspects of Financial Development on Resource Misallocation during China’s Reform Era
Deng, Jiapin; Liu, Qiao - 2022
Using municipal cities during China’s reform era as the setting, we investigate how different aspects of financial development affect resource misallocation in an integrated framework. Using different identification strategies, we find that local government-driven finance exacerbates the...
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Remittances and economic growth : the role of financial development in Nepal
Panthi, Pradeep; Devkota, Jeevanath - 2024
How remittances contribute to the economies of remittance-receiving developing countries is a global issue. Considering Nepal as a highly remittance-receiving country, this paper primarily examines the impact of remittances on economic growth using annual time series data from 1980 to 2021. The...
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