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SUMMARY:Agnes Martins (ICMA\, Henley Business School) - "Basel II/III Implementation in Nigeria: Impact on the Resilience of its Banking Sector" - PhD Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe last twelve years have been characterised by a myriad of banking reforms in response to the 2007 to 2009 global financial crisis which propagated rapidly across the world. Nigeria\, Africa’s largest country by population and gross domestic product\, and a leading country for foreign direct investment\, was not spared from the contagion effect. In line with best practice banking reforms all over the world\, Nigeria adopted Basel II and some elements of the Basel III capital framework in 2014\, after a banking sector crisis from 2009 to 2012. This study aims to investigate the impact of these reforms on the resilience of the Nigerian Banking Industry. Firstly\, discussing the impact of reforms in Africa generally\, it then focuses on Nigeria. It uses the Industry Bank Z-score as its primary measure of resilience. The study finds that a positive impact of the reforms is revealed after controlling for macroeconomic factors in most African countries. In Nigeria\, the success of the reforms is further contingent on limiting leverage\, incorporating sound corporate governance\, and improving the business environment in terms of better regulation and the investment climate. \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/agnes-martins-icma-henley-business-school-basel-ii-iii-implementation-in-nigeria-impact-on-the-resilience-of-its-banking-sector-phd-seminar/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carl%20Singleton":MAILTO:c.a.singleton@reading.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Caterina Muratori (Reading/Collegio Carlo Alberto) - "The impact of abortion access on women's agency" - PhD Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nIn this paper\, I document the centrality of reproductive rights\, and in particular of the abortion right\, in women’s empowerment process. Limiting access to abortion implies higher rate of unintended pregnancies and subsequent lower bargaining power for women\, particularly among poor and vulnerable groups. I start from the evidences that estimate a sharp reduction in the abortion rate and an increase in the fertility rate after the implementation of many state laws regulating abortion in U.S.\, the so-called Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers (TRAP). I evaluate the second order effect of these restrictive policies on violence against women within family and in the workplace\, using variation caused by House Bill 2 of 2013 that suddenly closed nearly a half of Texas’ abortion clinics and doubled\, on average\, the distance from a Texas resident to her nearest clinic. I use a difference-in-difference design with year and city fixed effects to estimate the impact of a variation in abortion access on the number of reported cases of gender violence\, using within city variation in access across time. A 30 minutes increase in distance from a city’s centroid to the nearest abortion clinic is associated with a 5.5% percent increase in the number of reported cases of gender violence the same period and a 5.7% percent increase the following year. The major part of the effect of restriction on abortion access on gender violence is driven by the impact on intimate partner violence (IPV).
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/caterina-muratori-reading-collegio-carlo-alberto-the-impact-of-abortion-access-on-womens-agency-phd-seminar/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carl%20Singleton":MAILTO:c.a.singleton@reading.ac.uk
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