Efficiency in the context of financial markets can be defined in many ways. The major strand of finance literature measures the market’s ability to process information into prices. Another strand of literature refers to the economists’ usual sense of the word, i.e.
Governments all over the world grant different types of subsidies to firms which are said to have a lack-of-capital problem. However, it is unclear if governments have the information and motivation to target firms which have problems to finance profitable project via
Despite a surge of global investor interest in the 1980s and 1990s, Africa has been bypassed by the massive international capital flowing to developing economies. Most of the economies in the region didn’t efficiently mobilize their domestic financial resources either. African countries,
At a very macro level, ‘Investment Banking’ as term suggests, is concerned with the primary function of assisting the capital market in its function of capital intermediation, i.e., the movement of financial resources from those who have them (the Investors), to those