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Firm Specific, Financial Development and Macroeconomic Determinants of Credit Union Lending

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  • Benjamin Amoah
  • Anthony Q.Q. Aboagye
  • Godfred A. Bokpin
  • Kwaku Ohene‐Asare

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Credit unions are set up to provide financial services, especially loans to members in a cooperative setting. The increasing competition from banking and non‐banking financial institutions implies credit unions must provide financial products and services with a clear understanding of factors that interact in this competitive industry. This paper evaluates the discretional and non‐discretional factors that tend to influence loans credit unions grant their members. From fixed effect model estimate, discretional factors such as size, profitability, management quality and solvency positively associate with credit union loan business whiles loan loss, net worth, non‐loan income and non‐loan activities associate negatively. Contractionary monetary policy creates an increase in loan demand in the credit union. Credit union managers should monitor developments taking place in the loanable funds market as increasing overhead cost of banks may imply a possible increase in loan demand leading to diseconomies of scale. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Benjamin Amoah & Anthony Q.Q. Aboagye & Godfred A. Bokpin & Kwaku Ohene‐Asare, 2018. "Firm Specific, Financial Development and Macroeconomic Determinants of Credit Union Lending," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(7), pages 1203-1222, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:30:y:2018:i:7:p:1203-1222
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.3372
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    1. Michael Adusei & Ngozi Adeleye & Anthony Okafor, 2021. "Drivers of credit union penetration: An international analysis," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(3), pages 710-723, April.
    2. Michael Adusei & Kwasi Poku & Samuel Akomea, 2023. "Manager bonding and the technical efficiency of cooperative credit unions‐parametric and non‐parametric analyses," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 94(4), pages 1085-1109, December.

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