Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"regulatory quality"”.
-
Foreign direct investment and governance: an empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
… accountability, government effectiveness, and regulatory quality. The estimates show that political stability, regulatory quality and accountability have a positive impact on foreign direct investment, while corruption, government ineffectiveness, and lack of rule of law do not affect foreign …
-
The Role of Corporate Governance Mechanisms, Executive Compensation and Regulatory Regimes in Global Incidence of Corporate Financial Fraud
… dimensions of corporate governance mechanisms, quality of audit and regulatory regimes, and executive compensation. I find that large-sized firms with bigger boards invariably indulge in tax fraud. Conversely, older firms, firms paying higher executive compensation, exhibiting greater audit …
-
Corporate governance and bank performance in the sub-Saharan African emerging economy.
Regulatory bodies impact corporate governance in the banking sector, with directors making critical strategic decisions. The effectiveness of these regulations and corporate governance has a substantial impact on the performance of banks. Furthermore, corporate governance standards are critical in …
-
Governance and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… by government effectiveness, rule of law, regulatory quality, and political stability. Interaction terms demonstrate that democratisation is essential to unlocking the benefits of the governance indicators on human development. The effects of the resource dependence on the interaction …
-
The impact of remittances on the monetary transmission mechanism in low-income countries
… indicate that stronger corruption control and regulatory quality, along with savings-to-GDP and remittances-to-GDP ratios, are associated with credit expansion in response to remittances. This empirical finding indicates that monetary policy measures may have difficulty in achieving their …
-
Determinants of Life Insurance Penetration in SADC
… age dependency, life expectancy, institutional quality (independent variables), and life insurance penetration (dependent variable) in Southern African Development Community member states. The study employed the fixed effects and system general methods of moments techniques to estimate the panel …
-
The Role of Corporate Governance to Foreign Direct Investments on Emerging Countries in Southeast Asia
… weak corporate governance. Developing stringent regulatory policies on governance in the ASEAN nations can impact these economies at the macroeconomic level. The surplus FDIs often lead to better economic and fiscal policy for emerging nations in the ASEAN. This research is descriptive …
-
Innovation and institutions: Examining the black box
… (i.e., Control of Corruption, Rule of Law, Regulatory Quality and Expropriation Risk) have differentiated impacts on innovation.</p><p>A major prediction of the theoretical model is that better institutional arrangements boost innovation and thus economic growth. The lack of right …
-
The role of Oil in Economic Development -The case of Libya (1970-2010).
… stability, government effectiveness, and regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption. It is concluded that the quality of institutions in Libya affects economic growth negatively. The study holds several implications for policy-makers.
-
Competitiveness and efficiency of commercial banks and economic growth in the frontier economies of Africa
… in the literature on Africa however is the quality of institutions. Against this background, this thesis presents a collection of empirical papers on competition, efficiency and economic growth of the banking sector in Africa. Explicitly, annual firm level data on banks from 10 frontier …
-
The nexus between financial inclusion and financial development in Zimbabwe (2009-2015)
… such as political stability, rule of law, regulatory quality and government effectiveness had largely a strong and significant relationship with financial inclusion and financial development. These negative governance factors need to be addressed by policy makers because they have the …
-
The Elements of Governance and Their Association with Aviation Safety Oversight Effectiveness
… to reflect state governance measures, namely Regulatory Quality (RQ) and Government Effectiveness (GE), and the result of the ICAO safety oversight audits, as expressed in the Effective Implementation (EI) metric, is selected as a measure of safety oversight v effectiveness. The research …
-
Information frictions and the integration of international capital markets
… in countries with low investor protection, low regulatory quality, and greater accounting differences from the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Finally, I find that the negative effect of Rule 12h-6 on firm innovation is attenuated in countries with more liberalized stock markets. I …
-
Information frictions and the integration of international capital markets
… in countries with low investor protection, low regulatory quality, and greater accounting differences from the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Finally, I find that the negative effect of Rule 12h-6 on firm innovation is attenuated in countries with more liberalized stock markets. I …
-
Does Natural Resource Wealth Spoil and Corrupt Governments? A New Test of the Resource Curse Thesis
… whether the resource curse also extends to the quality of regulation and the level of corruption. A theoretical framework is developed that informs the specification of interactive random effects models. A cross-national panel data set is used to estimate these models. Due to multicollinearity, …
-
O papel da air na construção da racionalidade regulatória em setores essenciais: uma análise documental nas agências de serviços de energia e recursos naturais
O presente estudo objetivou analisar a conformidade e a qualidade da Análise de Impacto Regulatório (AIR) implementada pelas agências reguladoras federais dos setores de Energia e Recursos Naturais, quais sejam a Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (ANEEL), Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás …
-
National governance, corporate governance and firm performance : empirical evidence from two MENA countries ‒ Jordan and UAE
… the world. Therefore, governments and other regulatory bodies have been convinced to impose strict regulatory requirements and implement effective plans to ensure sound corporate governance practices. By reviewing extant literature, I find a clear gap in studying the effect of governance …
-
Corporate Governance and Performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): A Comparative Study in Sri Lanka and India
… considering the influence of national governance quality. A study of corporate governance in the microfinance sector is timely and important as unfair practice accusations against MFIs raise questions around what is an appropriate framework for monitoring and control of MFI activities. A …