...Innocent Ogbonnaya Unah; Abeeb Olatunde Olaniran; Lukman Abisoye Lasisi Purpose This study investigates the linear and nonlinear effects of financial development on trade openness in Sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach This study focuses on SSA and its sub-regions over the period...

...Godfred Aawaar; Simon Abendin; Felicia Naatu; Joseph Dery Nyeadi Purpose The existing literature on the effects of capital mobility and financial development on sustainable trade development in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has been centered on production-based carbon emissions without...

...Puneet Kumar Arora; Jaydeep Mukherjee Purpose This study aims to add to the growing literature on the trade–finance nexus by exploring the interplay between a country's level of financial development, the external finance dependence of firms and their exporting decisions. Design/methodology...

...Faris Alshubiri; Syed Jamil Purpose The present study aims to compare the effect of international paid remittances on financial development in three Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 1985 to 2020. Design/methodology/approach The study applied the bound cointegration technique...

...Thu-Ha Thi An; Shin-Hui Chen; Kuo-Chun Yeh Purpose This study examines the role of financial development (FD) in enhancing the growth effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging and developing Asia from 1996 to 2019. Design/methodology/approach The study exploits the new broad-based...

...Nguyen Minh Ha; Bui Hoang Ngoc Purpose The study aims to discover the spatial relationship between financial development, energy consumption and economic growth in 11 ASIA countries, using panel data from 1980 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach The study applies three popular spatial models...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Financial development Financial inclusion Income inequality Asia Panel cointegration Granger causality G00 O11 O15 O16 O53 Table 1 Descriptive statistics and pairwise correlation lnINEQ lnCB lnDA lnOLH lnDCP lnGDP...

...Isaac Ofoeda; Elikplimi Agbloyor; Joshua Yindenaba Abor Purpose This study examines the influence of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations on the financial development-economic growth nexus around the world. Design/methodology/approach The study uses data from 165 countries spanning...

...Purnima Khemani; Dilip Kumar Purpose Achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) demands mobilising finance and aligning it with elements of sustainability. This study, thus, aims to investigate the impact of financial development of an economy on the achievement of SDGs. Design/methodology...

...Rim El Khoury; Etienne Harb; Nohade Nasrallah Purpose This paper provides a state-of-the-art review of the financial development in the Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) and examines its impact on its economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a Panel Data Regression...

...Shabeer Khan; Baharom Abdul Hamid; Mohd Ziaur Rehman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants and the impact of financial development on shadow economy in OIC countries and then compared with non-OIC countries. Design/methodology/approach The study...

...Airil Khalid; Zamri Ahmad Purpose This study aims to observe the extent of asset diversification benefits in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-5 market by examining the effect of financial integration (FI) and financial development (FD) on domestic stock–bond co-movements, SBcorr...

... constrained and unconstrained firms differently. Finally, it examines the role of financial development in mitigating the effects of EXRV and financial constraints on firms' exports. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis of the paper is based on a wide panel of Pakistani nonfinancial firms...

...Hamad Omar Bakar; Zunaidah Sulong; Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of financial development (FD) on economic growth and growth-enhancing transmission channels for the sub-Saharan African (SSA) region in three different periods: the pre...

.... Nonlinearity suggests that firms with high levels of leverage and short-term debt carry out positive discretionary accruals. Countries' institutional and financial development reduces EM practices. Mandatory IFRS adoption also reduces these practices and mitigates the effects of the low institutional...

.... It tests the growth-predicting power of FCI by applying the auto regressive distributed lags approach to co-integration and verifies if the FCI is co-integrated with real GDP growth. It also discusses construction of a financial development index (FDI) which tracks the financial markets through M3, market...

...Peterson K. Ozili Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the non-discretionary determinants of bank loan loss provisions in Africa after controlling for macroeconomic fluctuation, financial development and investor protection. Design/methodology/approach The author uses static...

...Madhu Sehrawat; A.K. Giri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible co-integration and the direction of causality between financial development and economic growth in South-Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries using annual data from 1994 to 2013...

...Madhu Sehrawat; A K Giri Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Indian states using annual data from 1993 to 2012. Design/methodology/approach – The stationarity properties are checked by Levin-Lin-Chu and Im...