Persistence of profitability in the Kenyan banking industry masks the limited understanding of the adjustment process of the profit seeking behavior during economic shocks. Whether the adjustment is in response to the adverse outcomes of the shocks, or the inevitable macroeconomic policy...

Persistence of profitability in the Kenyan banking industry masks the limited understanding of the adjustment process of the profit seeking behavior during economic shocks. Whether the adjustment is in response to the adverse outcomes of the shocks, or the inevitable macroeconomic policy...

This research advances four theoretical approaches in an attempt to relate the banking activities to the real economic activities. It starts with the Schumpeter’s circular flow of creditary production that argues that the banks start the production cycle for offering the credits that enable...

Currency board (CB) was a corner solution for Argentine hyperinflation, however its balance is controversial. How does a CB work as a long run regime? After evaluating the result of ten years CB regime, we obtain important lessons for a monetary union and for dollarization proposals. We discuss:...