Effects of financial development on mortgage development in Africa: an application of GMM dynamic pooled estimator
Journal of Financial Economic Policy
ISSN: 1757-6385
Article publication date: 14 March 2022
Issue publication date: 19 August 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study purposely re‐examine the mortgage–finance nexus in Africa.
Design/methodology/approach
This study adopted a panel data set spanning over the period 1995–2017 by using system generalized method of moments (GMM) dynamic pooled estimator developed by Arellano and Bond (1991) and Arellano and Bover (1995) involving 51 African countries.
Findings
The findings discovered that financial development (bank asset) affects mortgage development positively and this effect is highly significant while broad money supply as a measure of financial development impedes mortgage development in Africa. Furthermore, with the introduction of the quadratic term, broad money supply established a U-shaped relationship with mortgage financing indicating that more money in circulation facilitates mortgage development in Africa. However, the shape of the other variables depends largely on the nature of proxy used.
Originality/value
This study is unique in many aspects. First, examining the extant literature on the financial development and mortgage financing nexus, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no study is cited at the African level with this relationship. Secondly is the empirical model, as it used the system GMM dynamic pooled estimator developed by Arellano and Bond (1991) and Arellano and Bover (1995) to establish whether there is any effect of finance–mortgage nexus.
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Acknowledgements
Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in the World Bank databank database at https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators
Citation
Sare, Y.A., Davies, E. and Nyeadi, J.D. (2022), "Effects of financial development on mortgage development in Africa: an application of GMM dynamic pooled estimator", Journal of Financial Economic Policy, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 633-650. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFEP-08-2021-0206
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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