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Linkages between financial development, financial instability, financial liberalisation and economic growth in Africa

Batuo, Enowbi; Mlambo, Kupukile; Asongu, Simplice - 2017

In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, the implications of financial liberalisation for stability and economic growth has come under increased scrutiny. One strand of literature posits a positive relationship between financial liberalisation and economic growth and development....

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Globalization, financial crisis and contagion : time-dynamic evidence from financial markets of developing countries

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

Financial integration among economies has the benefit of improving allocation efficiency and diversifying risk. However the recent global financial crisis, considered as the worst since the Great Depression has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its...

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Globalization and financial market contagion : evidence from financial crisis and natural disasters

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013

With financial globalization, investors can gain from diversification if returns from financial markets are stable and not correlated. However with volatility spillovers, increase in cross-market correlations exist as a real-effect and are not taken into account for asset allocation and...

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Financial determinants of consumer price inflation : what do dynamics in money, credit, efficiency and size tell us?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

past few years. Design/methodology/approach - The estimation approach used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental … justifying the choice of the estimation approach with a Hausman-test for endogeneity. In the second-step, we verify that the …) estimation with robust Heteroscedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent (HAC) standard errors; and (3) adoption of two …

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Macroeconomic factors and dynamics of financial deepening : an empirical investigation applied to the CEMAC sub-region

Nguena, Christian Lambert; Tsafack Nanfosso, Roger - 2014

This article empirically estimates a micro-founded model with the aim to investigate the leading macroeconomic determinants and dynamics of financial deepening in the CEMAC sub-region. For this purpose, we adopted an empirical investigation in both static and dynamic panel data econometrics...

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ICT, conflicts in financial intermediation and financial access : evidence of synergy and threshold effects

Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2017

In this study we investigate the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in conflicts of financial intermediation for financial access. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary (or current values) and non-contemporary (or lagged by a year) quantile regressions in 53 African...

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At what levels of financial development does information sharing matter?

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017

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...

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Remittances and income inequality in Africa : financial development thresholds for economic policy

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Dossou, Toyo … - 2022

The study employs macro data on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including its sub-components of access, depth and efficiency) contribute to the equalisation of incomes across the continent. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that:...

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