Objective: The variables of customer concentration and bank loan contracts can affect corporate finance activities, and customer concentration may increase corporate returns. Methods: Under this study, the relationship between customer concentration and bank loan contracts have been investigated first and then the moderating effect of financial status variables and accounts payable on relation...

This study isolates the causal effects of financial literacy and schooling on wealth accumulation using a new household dataset and an instrumental variables (IV) approach. Financial literacy and schooling attainment are both strongly positively associated with wealth outcomes in linear regression models, whereas the IV estimates reveal even more potent effects of financial literacy. They also ...

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Using dynamic econometric techniques the paper investigates the determinants of private saving in Sri Lanka with a primary focus on the role of financial sector development. Empirical evidence is obtained indicating the existence of the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis, and the significance of credit constraints on private saving. Most significantly, an index of financial sector development var...

There is a substantial body of literature arguing that financial development (the growth of banking and financial intermediation) contributes to economic growth. This paper makes two contributions to this literature. First, drawing on the banking history literature, we use data on state bank-branching and deposit-insurance regulation as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in financial dev...

The main purpose of this research is the study on effect of Financial and Operating Leverage and Venture Capital on Tobin's Q ratio amongst companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, the Holdings and Investment companies are used as statistical samples and 73 enterprises that are listed in Tehran Stock Exchange within 2001 to 2016 have been studied. The results driven by this ...

This paper presents a model in which financial innovations explain three widely discussed stylized facts regarding trends in economic volatility over the past two decades. Aggregate volatility of real variables such as output has fallen. In particular, the covariance between firm and industry activities has declined, and so has employment volatility for the majority of firms. In contrast, the v...

globalization is a worldwide phenomenon. the concept globalization is a very recent term only establishing its current meaning in the 1970s, which emerged from the intersection of four inter related sets of communities of practice, academics, journalists, publishers. this paper models the channels through which globalization affects financial sector development in nigeria. to this end this stud...

We examine the effect of financial openness on the development of financial systems in a panel of 35 emerging markets during the period of 1976 to 2003. A group of indicators including variables from banking sector, stock market, and national capital accounts are used as measures of financial openness and financial development. In addition, aggregate index measures are developed to incorporate ...