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REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE JOURNAL

Volume 11 – Issue 2

Development Finance, Governance Quality and their Impact on Food and Nutrition Security in Sub-Saharan Africa – Danny Cassimon, Olusegun Fadare and George Mavrotas

The Effect of Credit Rationing on the Probability of SMEs Investing – Agus Syarip Hidayat and Wee Ching Pok

What Drives Profits in Savings Groups? Bayesian Data Mining Evidence from the SAVIX Database – Rolando Gonzales, Bert D’espallier and Roy Mersland

Predicting Foreign Exchange Rate Movements: An Application of the Ensemble Method – Charles Raoul Tchuinkam Djemo, Joel Hinaunye Eita and John Weirstrass Muteba Mwamba

Bank Governance, External Regulations and Risk-Taking Behaviours of Banks in Africa – Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor, Saint Kuttu, and Joshua Yindenaba Abor

Uncertainty, Trust and Herding Behaviour – Ray Saadaoui Mallek, Mohamed Albaity and Philip Molyneux

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Volume 11 – Issue 1

Competition and Market Discipline in the Banking Industry of Emerging Market Economies – Euphemia Godspower-Akpomiemie and Kalu Ojah

How Lithium Prices Affect Mergers and Acquisitions in the Lithium Industry – Manuel Monge, Enrique Cristobal and Luis A. Gil-Alana

The Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity: An Institutional Perspective – Canh Phuc Nguyen, Nguyen Ai Nhi, Christophe Schinckus and Thanh Dinh Su

Does Credit Market Intervention Enhance Economic Outcome? Evidence from India’s ‘Priority Sector Lending’ Policy – Vinay Kumar Yadav and Mandira Sarma

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Volume 10 – Issue 2

The impact of financial inclusion on rural food security experience: A perspective from low-and middle-income countries – Renata Baborska, Emilio Hernandez, Emiliano Magrini and Cristian Morales-Opazo

Policy priorities to promote financial development in the context of the Middle-Income Trap: The cases of Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru- Alfonso Arellano, Olga Gouveia, Sebastián Nietto-Parra, Jose René Orozco and Rebeca Peers

Mergers and acquisitions in the lithium industry. A fractional integration analysis – Manuel Monge, Luis A Gil-Alana and Enrique Cristobal

Social protection expenditures and performance-pay – Wasseem Mina

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Volume 10 – Issue 1

The impact of governance on IPO underpricing and performance at the country and corporate level: literature review and research directions – Maximiliano González, Alexander Guzmán, Diego F. Tellez-Falla and María Andrea Trujillo

Stock market development, human capital, and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa – John Kagochi and Nazif Durmaz

Impact of credit quality on credit spread of Green Bonds: A global evidence – Sisira Colombage and K.G.M. Nanayakkara

Tackling fiscal deficits : the role of control of corruption in Asia Pacific countries – Canh Phuc Nguyen, Christophe Schinckus, Thanh Dinh Su, and Felicia Chong Hui Ling

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Volume 9 – Issue 2

FDI inflows spillover effect implications on the Asian-Pacific’s catching up process – Elsadig Musa Ahmed and Rahim Kialashaki

Enhancing ICT for insurance in Africa – Simplice A. Asongu and Nicholas M. Odhiambo

Does bank competition spur economic growth? Evidence from West African countries – Oludele Folarin

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Volume 9 – Issue 1

An ethical barrier to Japanese funding of microfinance institutions in developing countries – Takashi Ishida and Mototsugu Fukushige

Stock returns-inflation nexus in Africa during tranquil and crisis periods: new evidence – Afees A. Salisu, Samuel F. Onipede, and Wasiu Adekunle

Flows to emerging market and developing economies – global liquidity and uncertainty versus country-specific pull factors – Ansgar Belke and Ulrich Volz

Wagner and the fading voracity effect: short vs. long-run effects in developing countries – João Tovar Jalles

Central bank independence and economic welfare in Africa: do institutional quality and levels of central bank independence matter? – Baah Aye Kusi, Obed Anann Nortey, and Gloria Clarissa Dzeha

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Volume 8 – Issue 2

Institutions, inward foreign direct investment, trade openness and credit level in emerging market economies – Canh Phuc Nguyen, Christophe Schinckus, Thanh Dinh Su, and Felicia Chong

Determinants of the non-life insurance market in Brazil – Renata Telles Cavalcante, Vinicius Amorim Sobreiro, and Herbert Kimura

On the linkages between Africa’s emerging equity markets and global markets: evidence from fractional integration and cointegration – Luis Gil-Alana, Hector Carcel, and Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah

Cash holdings and corporate governance: the effects of premium listing in Brazil – Aviner Augusto Silva Manoel, Marcelo Botelho C. Moraes, Marcelo Seido Nagano, and Vinicius Amorim Sobreiro

Time-varying transmission between oil and equities in the MENA region: new evidence from DCC-MIDAS analyses – Basel Awartani, Farrukh Javed, Aktham Maghyereh, and Nader Virk

Bank competition and regional integration: evidence from ASEAN nations – Alexia Ventouri

Determinants of credit risk in the banking system in Sub-Saharan Africa – Trust R. Mpofu and Eftychia Nikolaidou