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The Nature of the Creditor-Debtor Relationship in South Africa

Moss, Vuyisani; Dincer, Hasan; Hacioglu, Umit - In: International Journal of Research in Business and … 2 (2013) 2, pp. 47-57

This article was a result of an investigation measuring the â€˜Correlation between Borrower Education and Non-payment Behaviour in Low Income Homeowners in South Africa as the premise of the study and poor relationship between lenders and borrowers as the secondary proposition. The study was...

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Financial Turmoil in the Banking Sector and the Asian Lamfalussy Process : The Case of Four Economies

Hsu, Chen-Min; Liao, Chih-Feng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper investigates the prevailing financial regulatory structures and impact of the current financial turmoil on banking performance in four Asian economies : the People's Republic of China (PRC); Hong Kong, China; Singapore; and Taipei,China. Both the PRC and Hong Kong, China operate under a...

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CURRENT ISSUES IN ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE:Resilience and Stability in the Present System

Venardos, Angelo M (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

The phenomenal worldwide development over the past decade of Islamic banking and finance is drawing much attention to … policy advisors, and come from institutions such as CIMB, Kuwait Finance House, OCBC Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among …

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Financial development and economic growth: evidence from the European Union

Halkos, George E.; Trigoni, Marianna K. - In: Managerial Finance 36 (2010) November, pp. 949-957

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to detect the relationship between finance and growth in the European Union …-mentioned variables. According to the results, there seems to be a long-term relationship, between finance, growth and monetary policy. …

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The Provision of Finance to Small Businesses: Does the Banking Relationship Constrain Performance

Ennew, Christine T.; Binks, Martin R. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 4 (1995) 1, pp. 57-73

unconstrained in both product and factor markets, finance has been widely identified as a potential constraint on entrepreneurial … activity due to either debt or equity gaps. However, in terms of externally supplied finance, it is arguably the availability … with the provision of debt finance, the nature of the relationship between bank and entrepreneur can be of considerable …

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Finance and Democracy in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial development in Africa, contingent on religious-domination, income-levels and colonial-legacies. The main findings are summarized as follows. Authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development...

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Manufacturing Tail Risk: A Perspective on the Financial Crisis of 2007–2009

Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Finance 4 (2010) 4, pp. 247-325

We argue that the fundamental cause of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 was that large, complex financial institutions ("LCFIs") took excessive leverage in the form of manufacturing tail risks that were systemic in nature and inadequately capitalized. We employ a set of headline facts about...

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Islamic banking and finance: on its way to globalization

Khan, M. Mansoor; Bhatti, M. Ishaq - In: Managerial Finance 34 (2008), pp. 708-725

Purpose -The main objective of this paper is to highlight the unprecedented growth of Islamic banking and finance in … the contemporary finance world. It captures the advancements of Islamic banking and finance industry across the tools … paper deals with the paradigm of Islamic banking and finance. It constitutes a general review that bears special features …

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Impact of financial liberalization and foreign bank entry on Islamic banking performance

Hassan, M. Kabir; Sanchez, Benito; Safa, M. Faisal - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 6 (2013) March, pp. 7-42

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of financial liberalization and foreign Islamic bank entry on the performance of domestic Islamic banks, and credit availability to the private sector. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the weighted least squares method to estimate...

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The impact of the financial crisis on the global economy: can the Islamic financial system help?

Trabelsi, Mohamed Ali - In: Journal of Risk Finance 12 (2011) January, pp. 15-25

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the different measures taken by the G7 and G20 leaders to face the current global financial crisis and to show whether such decisions represent a return to protectionism. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes the introduction of a new...

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