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The Effect of Institutional Quality on Bank Lending in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

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  • Gani Azmat
  • Al-Muharrami Saeed

    (Department of Economics and Finance, College of Economics and Political Science, P.O. Box 20. Al Khod 123, Muscat, Oman)

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This paper examines the effect of institutional quality on lending by banks in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) group of countries. The methodology included the estimation of a reduced form regression equation utilizing cross country data for a range of variables capturing institutional quality. The empirical findings provide evidence that conventional institutional quality measured by: the time taken to enforce a contract, regulatory quality, the rule of law and government effectiveness; are inversely correlated with the lending by the banks, among other factors. Interestingly, our findings revealed that Sharia financing legislation to be positive and statistically significantly correlated with bank lending. Our main policy implication is that strengthening the domestic conventional institutional quality in the GCC countries is vital in order to facilitate effective lending by banks.

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  • Gani Azmat & Al-Muharrami Saeed, 2016. "The Effect of Institutional Quality on Bank Lending in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries," Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, De Gruyter, vol. 12(1), pages 55-63, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:rmeecf:v:12:y:2016:i:1:p:55-63:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/rmeef-2015-0032
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