Sovereign Credit Ratings: A Friend or Foe to Financial Development of African Countries?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of sovereign credit rating on financial development. Using a sample of 21 African countries from 1995 to 2019, the empirical result indicates a significant and positive link between sovereign credit rating and financial development that is, higher credit ratings are associated with lower borrowing costs ...
Sodiq Arogundade +2 more
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Diagnostic Delay among Adults with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a High Gross Domestic Product Per Capita Country: Reasons and Magnitude of the Problem. [PDF]
Int J Prev Med, 2016 Ibrahim WH +7 more
europepmc +1 more source
Is Fintech Good for Bank Performance? The Case of Mobile Money in the East African Community
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mobile money, a technology‐driven innovation in financial services, has profoundly penetrated the financial landscape in Sub‐Saharan Africa, including banks. Yet, besides anecdotal evidence, little is known about whether mobile money adoption enhances or worsens bank performance.
Serge Stéphane Ky +2 more
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Bank Capital Regulation and Derivatives Clearing
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As part of the post global financial crisis banking reforms, regulators introduced a leverage ratio requirement, a minimum capital requirement over a bank's total exposures. We assess the consequences of this requirement for derivative clearing services to clients, which creates exposures for the dealers, by exploiting its earlier introduction
Jonathan Acosta‐Smith +2 more
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Worldwide orthopaedic research activity 2010-2014: Publication rates in the top 15 orthopaedic journals related to population size and gross domestic product. [PDF]
World J Orthop, 2017 Hohmann E, Glatt V, Tetsworth K.
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Climate Change and Investors' Behaviour: Assessing a New Type of Systematic Risk
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how temperature anomalies, a novel form of systematic risk, affect financial markets, expanding the traditional understanding of market‐wide risks. While climate change is becoming an important consideration, the extent to which temperature anomalies disrupt economic activities and influence stock returns is urgently needed
Natthinee Thampanya, Junjie Wu
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Determinants of Dividend Payout Policy: More Evidence From Emerging Markets of G20 Bloc
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to examine the key factors influencing dividend payout policy in emerging markets, using a quantitative approach with a sample of 938 firms and 19,698 firm‐year observations. The study considers dividends, and share repurchases as elements of payout, analysing the effect of earnings, taxes, debt, size and free ...
Wagner Dantas de Souza Junior +2 more
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Valuing health as development: going beyond gross domestic product.
BMJ, 2018 Fan VY +4 more
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