Does Openness Matter for Financial Development in Africa? /

This paper analyzes the links between financial and trade openness and financial development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. It is based on a panel dataset using methods that tackle slope heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence and non-stationarity, important econometric problems that are...

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מחבר ראשי: David, Antonio
מחברים אחרים: Mlachila, Montfort, Moheeput, Ashwin
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שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/094
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF
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