The aim of the thesis is to investigate the determinants of financial development for the case of South Africa between the period of 1996-2017 by adopting quarterly data. Johansen Cointegration test results suggest that ...

The method least square panel was adopted to analyze the determinants of profitability of 16 listed commercial banks in China, from 2010 to 2015. As found by the study, the profitability of listed banks is associated not ...

In this study, we investigated the effect of macroeconomic variables on the volatility of Turkish stock market returns. We examined the effect of growth in gross domestic product, inflation, treasury bills rate, return ...

In Eurasia, Turkey has a “crony” capitalist system with majority control and business groups (BGs) in the hands of a few families. These business groups are often organised around a holding company. Turkey has adapted ...

In this study we aim to investigate the relationship between financial structure and economic growth in 10 OECD countries between the years 1993 and 2014 inclusively. The overall results for panel estimations were obtained ...

Life expectancy at birth in Uganda is approximately 58.46 years in 2014. The infant mortality rate under the age of 5 is about 55 deaths per 1,000 children. Low-quality health facilities and the distance to health services ...

This thesis aims to investigate the dynamic impacts of local interest rate volatility and spillover effect of the U.S. policy rate on the banking sector development (BSD) of emerging countries during the period of 1980-2014. ...

The main aim of this thesis is to determine the effect of both bank-specific and macro-economic variables on the profitability of the US banking sector. In order to accomplish this, ROA and ROE were considered as profitability ...

This thesis aims at highlighting the considerable contribution financial development has in terms of economic growth in Turkey from the year 1960 to 2016 with the use of annual time series data extracted from the World ...

The study is an empirical investigation of the effects of real exchange rates volatility on the growth of gross domestic product in Nigeria. Annual data was employed covering the period 1960-2012, on the relevant variables ...