Enterprise Governance, Investor Trust and Liquidity in the Banking Industry: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article provides a descriptive examination of the role of enterprise governance in restoring investor trust and liquidity in the banking industry. For the purpose of this study, data was gathered through consulting secondary sources such as financial statements, company publications, annual reports, central bank reports and journal articles. The article looks at the shift in focus towards enterprise governance and its effectiveness in restoring investor trust and liquidity in Zimbabwe. The value and number of transactions going through the banking system had significantly reduced compared to the situation that prevailed in the late 1990s. This reflects the state of the economy and the decline in investor trust and confidence in the banking sector. Low liquidity and low investor confidence remains the main worry for regulators as deposits are concentrated in only five banks with the remaining the institutions sharing the remainder. The deposit market share structure signifies an oligopoly banking sector where few banks dominate the market. The findings from this article will assist policy formulation, policy implementation and further future research. This article, however, is of great importance to government, the private sector and the academia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".