Financing Constraints And Financial Development: Evidence From Selected African Countries

Financial Development and Financing Constraints : International

Financial Development and Financing Constraints: International Evidence from the Structural Investment Model

This paper provides a micro-level evidence that ...nancial development impacts growth by reducing ...nancing constraints that would otherwise restrict e¢cient ...rm investment. I estimate a structural model based on the Euler equation for investment using ...rm-level data from 40 countries. I ...nd a strong negative relationship between the extent of ...nancial market development, and the sensi...

Credit constraints, firm exports and financial development: Evidence from developing countries

This paper examines whether financial development reduces the impact of credit constraints on the exporting decision using firm-level data across 17 developing countries. We approximate credit constraints by a firm’s liquidity ratio. In line with a Melitz-type model with borrowing frictions, the regression analysis confirms that the positive effect of a firm’s liquidity on the exporting probabi...

Financial markets and the financing choice of firms: Evidence from developing countries

We study the role of financial market development in the financing choice of firms in developing countries using a dynamic panel approach with aggregate firm-level data. The results suggest that equity market development favors firms’ equity financing over debt financing, while banking sector development favors debt financing over equity financing, as one would expect. However, surprisingly, eq...

Stock (Mis) Pricing and Diversification in Africa: Evidence from Selected African Exchanges

T his paper ascertains the extent of mispricing in equity portfolios, mispricing-divestment relation, and the role of African equities as risk diversification strategies during commodity market turbulence. Following Baur and Lucey (2010), one identifies an arbitrary commodity market crisis to be 1%, 5%, and 10% declining moments in returns. However, their approach is extended by usin...