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Credit bureaus, corruption and banking stability
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This study assesses the impact that credit bureaus can have on the occurrence of banking crises, using data for 32 countries over the period 2004-2016 while considering the interference effect of corruption. Different ...
Does ICT promote democracy similarily in developed and developing countries? A linear and nonlinear panel threshold framework
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper assesses the impact of ICT adoption on democracy for a panel of 70 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider two different measures of ICT and check for the stability of the relationship for different ...
Industrialization, FDI and absorptive capacities: evidence from African Countries
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Springer
, 2022 , Article)
This paper assesses the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the industrialization of African economies. In particular, we address the nonlinearity issue and investigate the role of the recipient countries' absorptive ...
Does corruption impede international trade? New evidence from the EU and the MENA countries
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Statistical Economic and Social Research and
, 2015 , Article)
This paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the effect of corruption on bilateral trade for a sample of 37 countries representing two regions: the Middle East and North Africa and the European Union during the period ...
Does ICT diffusion matter for corruption? An Economic Development Perspective
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
This study assess the impact of ICT diffusion on corruption by using instrumental variables method on a panel data set of 175 countries over the period 1996-2014. We check for the stability of the ICT-corruption nexus for ...
Nonlinear unemployment effects of the inflation tax
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
Long-run inflation has nonlinear and state-dependent effects on unemployment, output, and welfare. We show this using a standard monetary search model with two shocks – productivity and monetary – and frictions in both ...
On the complex relationship between different aspects of social capital and group loan repayment
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Do all aspects of social capital improve repayment behavior in group lending programs? The group lending literature typically uses one or few measures of social capital in a linear form, and systematically understates the ...
A Model of Endogenous Financial Inclusion: Implications for Inequality and Monetary Policy
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
We propose a monetary model with endogenous credit market participation to study the impact of financial inclusion on inequality and welfare. We find that consumption inequality results from differences in agents' decision ...
Corruption and Economic Development: New Evidence from the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper analyses the role of economic development in curbing corruption by focusing on political and economic freedoms for a sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2013. In ...
Dynamic risk spillovers between gold, oil prices and conventional, sustainability and Islamic equity aggregates and sectors with portfolio implications
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper investigates the time-varying equicorrelations and risk spillovers between crude oil, gold and the Dow Jones conventional, sustainability and Islamic stock index aggregates and 10 associated disaggregated Islamic ...