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This paper explores the long-run effects of inflation on the dynamics of private sector bank credit and economic growth … private sector bank credit in the economy exerts a positive impact on real GDP. In addition, inflation rates have contributed … negatively to the increase in private credit, liquid liabilities, and financial development. A key outcome is that one percent …
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relationship between financial development and economic growth. A specific question that is addressed in this paper is what the …, whereas there are two in Japan. Earlier studies support the view that financial development may promote economic growth … inflation. In addition, the threshold level of inflation below which financial development significantly promotes growth is …
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The global economy is highly dependent on commodity prices, which are, by and large, the outcome of market-specific supply and demand fundamentals. As a result, driven by different determinants, financial assets and commodity prices should be negligibly correlated. However, systematically...
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The paper investigates the role of network centrality in predicting borrowers' and lenders' behavior in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. The empirical analysis of data from Renrendai, a leading lending platform in the People's Republic of China, reveals that the lenders who are at the center of a...
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In theory, the islamic bank saving deposits should not be affected by the conventional interest rate since the interest rate is prohibited in Islamic law. However, in practice it is generally believed that in a dual banking system (both conventional and Islamic banks existing), the interest rate...
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The paper evaluates the causal relations and dynamic linkages between Economic growth proxied by real GDP per capita … and four other macroeconomic and financial variables namely Gross Domestic Savings as a percentage of GDP, Domestic Credit … growth and these variables indicate a long-run predictability of the magnifying or reducing effect of economic growth. We …
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In this paper, we show that traditional comparisons of Mean Squared Prediction Error (MSPE) between two competing forecasts may be highly controversial. This is so because when some specific conditions of efficiency are not met, the forecast displaying the lowest MSPE will also display the...
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Co-movements in equity markets may reflect either financial contagion or stock market integration. While the former tends to demonstrate financial stability and resiliency, the latter has played an important role for stock market development. This paper attempts to investigate the co-movements,...
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The causal relations and dynamic interactions among macroeconomic variables and stock market index are important in the formulation of a country’s macroeconomic policy. In this study, to investigate the lead-lag relationship between stock market index and macroeconomic variables, we employ...
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How does the extent of integration of the Malaysian equity market with the equity markets of Japan and USA vary at different time scales? How dynamic is the extent of co-movement of equity price with the major macroeconomic indicators of Malaysia? In order to answer these two major issues, this...
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