Arbeitspapier

Political Regimes and Stock Market Performance in Africa

This paper assesses the effect of political institutions on stock market performance in 14 African countries for which stock market data is available for the period 1990-2010. The estimation technique used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental Variable methodology. Political regime channels of democracy, polity and autocracy are instrumented with legal-origins, religious-legacies, income-levels and press-freedom qualities to account for stock market performance dynamics of capitalization, value traded, turnover and number of listed companies. The findings show that countries with democratic regimes enjoy higher levels of financial market development compared to their counterparts with autocratic inclinations. As a policy implication, the role of sound political institutions has important effects on both the degree of competition for public office and the quality of public offices that favour stock market development on the African continent.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/16/012

Classification
Wirtschaft
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)
General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Other Economic Systems: Public Economics; Financial Economics
Subject
Financial Markets
Government Policy
Development

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Asongu, Simplice
Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
(where)
Yaoundé
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Asongu, Simplice
  • Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.
  • African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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