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Age of politicians and regulatory reform
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Kabange, Martin Mulunda - 2016
This article discusses the relationship between the identity of the rulers of the executive and reform. Thus, we enrich the literature on the determinants of reform and the result of the executive. This is a new and very important literature, as these are the reforms that allow progress. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436451
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Political economy of oil resources management in Nigeria : lessons from other countries
Eregha, Perekunah B.; Mesagan, Ekundayo P. - 2019
The study focuses on the political economy of oil resources management in Nigeria with the sole purpose of showcasing how far the country has gone in effectively managing its crude oil proceeds. It presents a brief history on the excess crude account as well as the sovereign wealth fund in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107798
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Drivers of FDI in fast growing developing countries : evidence from bundling and unbundling governance
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non-contemporary estimation techniques. The following findings are …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as … follows in increasing order of magnitude: general governance, political governance, economic governance, political stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409066
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Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817112
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FDI in selected developing countries : evidence from bundling and unbundling governance
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
The objective of this study is to assess governance drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the … period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle governance determinants using a battery of contemporary and non …, while the majority of our governance determinants of Gross FDI are significant, they are overwhelmingly insignificant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063760
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The terrorism-finance nexus contingent on globalisation and governance dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nchofoung, Tii Njivukuh - 2021
This study empirically verifies the effect of terrorism on financial development and how globalisation and governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487020
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The sensitive nature of social trust to intelligence
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A.; Azia-Dimbu, … - 2016
This study investigates the relationship between social trust and intelligence. The extreme bound analysis of Levine and Renelt is employed to directly assess the strength of the nexus. The findings confirm the positive and robust nexus between social trust and intelligence. We have contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440570
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Trust and quality of growth : a note
Asongu, Simplice A.; Gupta, Rangan - 2015
The transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has substantially shifted the policy debate from growth to inclusive growth. In this short note, we revisit the trust-growth nexus by exploiting a dataset on quality of growth (QG), recently made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408408
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Trust and prosperity : a conditional relationship
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2013
The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of outliers. The empirical evidence is based on 63 countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409952
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Trust and growth revisited
Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2017
The paper extends Breggren et al. (2008, EE) on "trust and growth: a shaky relationship" by incorporating recent developments in the trust-growth literature and using a robust methodological underpinning that accounts for the presence of outliers. The empirical evidence is based on 63 countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794974