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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"institutional quality"”.
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Essays in Islamic Banking, Institutional Quality, and Financial Development Outcomes
… explores the implications of Islamic banking and institutional quality for financial inclusion, access to finance constraints of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and capital misallocation. Building on ideas from Islamic finance theory, institutional economics and political economy, the …
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Institutional quality in the finance-growth nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
… whether productivity can be enhanced by institutional quality through financial development in the sub-Saharan African region. Specifically, it seeks to achieve four main objectives: first, to capture both the market and non-market features of institutional quality in order to bring out …
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Estimating institutional quality with instruments : three essays and applications in education and healthcare
… Testing and Estimation -- 3. Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-experimental Data.
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The impact of international equity portfolio diversification on financial development, country-level institutional quality and cross-border mergers and acquisitions
… of financial market development, country-level institutional quality, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, respectively. However, despite the benefits of foreign investors in both developed and developing countries (Colombo, Loncan, and Caldeira, 2019), their relevance as the determinants …
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Four empirical essays on the role of institutional quality, political instability and entrepreneurship for economic growth and jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa
… and beyond. This thesis examines the effects of institutional quality, political instability, and a government targeted entrepreneurship program on the accumulation of human, physical, and financial capital by households and firms. In the literature, these factors are identified as the key …
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The relationship between FDI, political and institutional risk in Sub-Saharan Africa
… to investigate the roles of political risk and institutional quality determinants of Foreign Direct Investment inflows to 20 countries in SubSaharan Africa between 2003 and 2019. The results show that both political risk and weak institutional quality significantly and negatively affect FDI in …
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Political Economy of Gender and Sustainable Development: African Evidence
… specifically examine the moderating role of institutional quality on the relationship between female political representation on human development in Africa from 2000 to 2023, the moderating role of institutional quality on the relationship between female political representation and …
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The relationship between financial sector development and economic growth: the case of Zambia
… growth, bank efficiency, human capital, and institutional quality. Given Zambia's ongoing financial reforms, the research aims to fill the gap in understanding how these factors influence economic performance, particularly in the short and long term. The problem addressed by the study is the …
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Essays On International Capitol Mobility
Unequal quality of fundamental institutions induces different patterns of international capital flows in terms of both direction and magnitude. This dissertation examines, theoretically and empirically, the link between the financial intermediation sector and capital flows by highlighting the role …
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Transaction Cost Economics of Rice Irrigation Systems in Tanzania: Implications for Collective Action
… action and the factors, which influence the institutional quality based on individual resource user incentives. The study combined cross sectional and panel data designs to address the different objectives. Using different econometric analyses techniques (Heckman sample selection, Mixed …
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An examination into the quality of regional trade institutions: The economic community of West African states (ECOWAS); a historical, theoretical and modelling perspective
This thesis examines the determinants of institutional quality and the process of convergence in the ECOWAS in order to inform policy about the region’s deep integration scheme. The first part of the thesis examines the historical changes that took place in the development of common institutions in …
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An examination into the quality of regional trade institutions: The economic community of West African states (ECOWAS); a historical, theoretical and modelling perspective
This thesis examines the determinants of institutional quality and the process of convergence in the ECOWAS in order to inform policy about the region’s deep integration scheme. The first part of the thesis examines the historical changes that took place in the development of common institutions in …
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Selectivity in Higher Education: Implications for Student Academic Outcomes and Social Inequalities in Italy
… policies, while aiming to regulate the quantity-quality trade-off of students, often favor those with greater resources, creating barriers for low-income students. The research investigates these dynamics through three empirical chapters. The first chapter focuses on how institutional quality and …
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Capital Controls and Banking Crises in Emerging Markets
… the relationship may depend on political and institutional factors, such as institutional quality and other economic policies like macroprudential policies and exchange rate regimes. In addition, the signaling effect of capital controls may be a crucial element that must be considered during …
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A Comparative Analysis of Instructional Resources at Intermediate Agricultural Schools in Developing Nations (Africa, Asia, Latin America)
… E. Swanson. The exploratory study analyzed 235 institutional questionnaires from Third World countries. Institutional quality was assessed by staff size and educational level, adequacy of instructional materials, importance of the school farm for agricultural training, and adequacy of capital …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
… third paper examines the roles of oil funds and institutional quality in reducing fiscal procyclicality and macroeconomic volatility in oil-exporting countries. The results show that oil funds are effective in reducing fiscal procyclicality in countries with high institutional quality. There is …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
… third paper examines the roles of oil funds and institutional quality in reducing fiscal procyclicality and macroeconomic volatility in oil-exporting countries. The results show that oil funds are effective in reducing fiscal procyclicality in countries with high institutional quality. There is …
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Heterogeniško finansializacijos poveikio ilgojo laikotarpio ekonomikos augimui vertinimas /
… world. This study empirically examines whether institutional quality and economic development intermediate the relationship between financialisation and economic growth using a panel of 96 countries over the period of 1996-2017 and least squares dummy variables (LSDV) estimator. It was found …
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The Politics of Development Aid: Understanding the Lending Practices of the World Bank Group
… in objective indicators of economic need or institutional quality among recipients. Rather, statistical analysis shows that World Bank aid is positively correlated with several measures of donor influence. Utilizing a multi-donor model of political influence, the study finds evidence that the …
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