{"title":"Capital, risk and efficiency tradeoffs in Cameroonian banking","authors":"Eze Donatien Eze, Allandigar Otombaye","doi":"10.5897/jeif2022.1164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jeif2022.1164","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the relationship between capital, risk and efficiency for a sample of 10 Cameroonian banks between 2014 and 2020. To reach the authors’ target, they specify a system of equations and estimate it using the two stage least squares panel data estimator technique. The empirical analysis shows that increases of bank capital do not reduce risk taking in Cameroonian commercial banks. Moreover, cost efficiency does not explain risk taking in the Cameroonian commercial banks. There is however a negative impact of change in risk taking on the bank cost efficiency. Finally, changes in bank capital contribute positively to the yearly change in bank efficiency. Hence, policies aiming at ensuring that bankers are not tempted to play by the rules or inducing commercial banks behavior towards injection of more capital might help to improve bank efficiency and stability in this country.","PeriodicalId":33058,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86831639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The determinants of public debt in the Gambia: Estimates using the autoregressive redistributed lag (ARDL) bound cointegration technique","authors":"Jarju Saikouna, Njie Matarr","doi":"10.5897/jeif2023.1193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/jeif2023.1193","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this paper is to examine the key determinants of public debt in the Gambia. To achieve this objective, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARD) method was employed to examine the impact of short-run and long-run selected macroeconomic variables as well as a government effectiveness variable in determining the public debt level of The Gambia during the period 2000 to 2019. The results reveal that trade openness and gross fixed capital formation have an increasing impact on the Gambia’s public debt in the long-run. On the other hand, GDP growth, official exchange rate, and the government effectiveness variables have been found to have decreasing effects on public debt levels in the long-run. However, none of the variables show a significant relationship with public debt of levels of The Gambia in the short-run. Given these findings, it is recommended for the Government of the Gambia to improve the country’s governance effectiveness, in particular, as weak government institutions was found to be one of the main drivers of the country’s public debt in the long-run.","PeriodicalId":33058,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84457648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONTEXTUALIZING THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND TRAINING:\u0000MICRO, SMALL, AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES (MSMEs) IN THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU, INDIA","authors":"Sivakumar Venkataramany, C. Jayachandran","doi":"10.18374/jife-23-1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18374/jife-23-1.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33058,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74510100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}