This research examines the nexus between environmental tax, carbon emission, and female economic inclusion. The study employs a quantitative research method, utilizing the Generalized method of moments (GMM) on a dataset of 65 countries from the period 1994 to 2020. The research finds that...

This thesis focuses on bank market structure and the effect of changes to this structure on intermediation strategies using a dataset that covers many regions of the world. Employing different estimation techniques and methodologies, and using a novel approach to each line of research, this...

This paper seeks to analyse the implications of cross-border banking and institutional quality for accounting information quality. We sample 330 banks across 29 African countries and employ system GMM estimator as a methodological approach to test for two related hypotheses. First, banks...

This paper examines the impact of financial literacy and financial inclusion on stock market participation in Ghana. It employs a sample of 1,966 respondents across the 10 regions of Ghana for the year 2018. We employ biprobit models to estimate the influence of financial literacy on financial...

This paper applies Markov chain to analyse the extent and mobility of profit persistent, dynamic auto regressive model is used to assess the speed of convergence and the quantile regression technique is employed to examine the determinants of profit persistent of 330 banks across 29 African...

Using a sample of 330 banks in 29 African countries, this paper investigates the importance of globalization and institutional quality for bank competition. The results suggest that competition increased in the period of 2002-2005, before decreasing somewhat between 2006 and 2007 and increasing...

A tension exists in the current literature as to whether or not competition contributes to banking stability. On the one side, proponents of the so called lsquo;franchise value hypothesis' argue that banks with greater market power are able to protect their franchise value because they are not...

This research examines the nexus between environmental tax, carbon emission, and female economic inclusion. The study employs a quantitative research method, utilizing the Generalized method of moments (GMM) on a dataset of 65 countries from the period 1994 to 2020. The research finds that...