The study investigates the effect of carbon tax adoption on foreign direct investment in Africa. We set up the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model and estimate it with the differenced GMM techniques. The data span from 1995 to 2019 and covers 43 Sub-Saharan African countries....

We provide empirical investigations into the role of political institutions in the bank market power-economic growth nexus using country-level data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. We employed a dynamic GMM model to achieve the above objective. The results show that banks with market...

We examine two key questions in this paper: does access to finance have an association with firm level productivity? And does the fiscal environment have an effect on the relation between access to finance and firm productivity? Our answers are that restrictions to access to finance leads to...

We provide empirical investigations into the nexus between bank market power economic growth using nationalized bank data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. The paper also explores how institutional quality factors influence the mechanisms through which banks with market power...

This study investigates the effect of pension funds (PF) and institutional quality (IQ) on capital market development in 48 African countries. Using a system GMM regression, the study found that the interaction between PF and IQ significantly negatively affects capital market development. The...

This study examines natural disasters' short-run and long-run effects on economic growth. We analysed insurance's short-run and long-run role in the natural disaster-economic growth nexus using 48 African countries from 2000 to 2020. Using a two-step system GMM, the study revealed that natural...

This study examines the co-movement and time-varying integration between equity, exchange rate, and international market volatility indices across different time-frequency domains using - bi-partial wavelet, - supplemented by dynamic conditional correlation-generalised autoregressive conditional...

This study investigates the effect of pension funds (PF) and institutional quality (IQ) on capital market development in 48 African countries. Using a system GMM regression, the study found that the interaction between PF and IQ significantly negatively affects capital market development. The...

We provide empirical investigations into the role of political institutions in the bank market power-economic growth nexus using country-level data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. We employed a dynamic GMM model to achieve the above objective. The results show that banks with market...