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Bundling Governance: Finance versus Institutions in Private Investment Promotion
Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015
Purpose – The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by … finance and governance as substitutes in their impact on investment implies that good governance fuels private investment and … issues on the other hand. Originality/value – The paper extends the debate on the substitution of finance and institutions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596324
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Inequality, Finance and Pro-Poor Investment in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Tchamyou, Vanessa - 2015
This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596325
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Recent finance advances in information technology for inclusive development: A systematic review
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2018
about 180 recently published papers to provide recent information technology advances in finance for inclusive development …, innovations and investment strategies with particular emphasis, inter alia on: informal finance, microfinance, mobile banking …, crowdfunding, micro insurance, Islamic finance, remittances, Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and the Diaspora Investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112170
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Financial access, governance and insurance sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance consumption in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries using data for the period 2004-2014. Design/methodology/approach - Two life insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112212
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Big Data, Computational Science, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Management, and Psychology: Connections
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2018
The paper provides a review of the literature that connects Big Data, Computational Science, Economics, Finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819526
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Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business, Computing, and Big Data: Connections
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2018
This paper provides a review of some connecting literature in Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business …, they could then conduct simulations to examine whether the estimators or statistics in the new theories on estimation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819539
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Revisiting the finance-inequality nexus in a panel of African countries
Meniago, Christelle; Asongu, Simplice - 2018
The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Financial development is defined in terms of depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (from banking and financial system perspectives),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956962
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Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
Sustainable development within the investigated context includes the ability of African countries to meet the present economic, social and environmental needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A challenging contemporary policy syndrome is the lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956968
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Market power and cost efficiency in the African banking industry
Asongu, Simplice; Nting, Rexon T.; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019
Purpose- In this study, we test the so-called 'Quiet Life Hypothesis' (QLH) which postulates that banks with market power are less efficient. Design/methodology/approach- We employ instrumental variable Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Tobit and Logistic regressions. The empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389135
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Inequality and gender economic inclusion: The moderating role of financial access in sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019
This study assesses how financial access can be used to modulate the effect of income inequality on gender economic inclusion. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 2004-2014 and the empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and Fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389154