...Mohammed Gbanja Abdulai; Stanley Kojo Dary; Yazidu Ustarz; Mubarik Salifu Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of trade credit in improving access to formal credit for informal firms in Africa, where informal enterprises dominate employment and significantly contribute to economic...

... for regulatory policies that incentivize banks towards liquidity creation, highlighting that liquidity hoarding not only impedes economic output but also heightens financial instability. Bank liquidity hoarding Financial fragility Financial stability Africa G21 N27 O16 Funding...

... Asia Europe Africa G21 G28 C53 E43 E52 Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) is a hot topic and has been the focus of a recent heated debate in the economics and finance literature. EPU derives mostly from whether existing policies will change in the future or the unknown impact of new...

.... Design/methodology/approach The authors use a sample of five African countries (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa) and a total of 616 firms over the period 2005–2015. This study's main measure of synchronicity is the R² from a regression of stock returns on index...

... Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Financial constraints Africa Investment–cash flow sensitivity Global financial crisis G20 G30 G32 Motivated by the aforementioned mixed results and the dearth of research on Africa, we study the evolution...

...Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah; Paul Alagidede; Lord Mensah; Kwaku Ohene-Asare Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the weak form efficiency of five African stock markets (South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana and Mauritius) using various tests to assess the impact of non-linearity effect...