Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in develo** countries

AE Apeti - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on a sample of 76 develo** countries over 1990–2019, we assess the effect of
adopting mobile money on consumption volatility using entropy balancing. We reveal that …

Differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment: A cross-country empirical investigation

M Were - Journal of african trade, 2015 - Springer
The paper empirically examines the differential effects of trade on economic growth and
investment based on cross-country data. In general, the results are largely consistent with …

Remittances and household consumption instability in develo** countries

JL Combes, C Ebeke - World Development, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on household consumption instability in a
large panel of develo** countries. There are four main results. First, remittances …

How does terms of trade volatility affect macroeconomic volatility? The roles of financial development and institutions

D Avom, B Kamguia, JP Ngameni, H Njangang - International Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effect of terms-of-trade volatility on growth volatility. It also
investigates whether financial development and institutional quality mitigate the negative …

Effects of financial liberalization on financial market development and economic performance of the SSA region: An empirical assessment

AD Ahmed - Economic Modelling, 2013 - Elsevier
This study investigates the role of financial liberalization in promoting financial deepening
and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA). We apply the more efficient …

Integration of financial markets, financial development and growth: Is Africa different?

AD Ahmed - Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study uses a dynamic system GMM model and panel data of 30 Sub-Saharan African
(SSA) countries from 1976 to 2010 to investigate the impact of international financial …

Trade, growth and growth volatility: New panel evidence

DH Kim, SC Lin, YB Suen - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationships of trade with economic growth and growth volatility
using the Chudik and Pesaran (2013) cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive …

The role of environmental degradation in macroeconomic instability: panel evidence from emerging economies

AK Sahu, MK Mahalik, G Patel, S Pal - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
This study examines the role of environmental degradation in macroeconomic instability for
a balanced panel sample of 22 emerging market economies from 1996 to 2019 …

The impacts of international migrants' remittances on household consumption volatility in develo** countries

RK Mondal, R Khanam - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the impacts of remittances on reducing volatility of household
consumption using a panel dataset of 84 develo** countries during the period from 1980 …

Monetary and fiscal policy impacts under alternative trilemma regimes

H Ito, M Kawai - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
Using a new set of trilemma indexes for exchange rate stability, financial market openness,
and monetary policy independence, this paper first locates more than one hundred …