, seek out goods and services and pay for them or how we receive money from others or transfer it to family or friends. As …

payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the world. Recently, the issuance of central bank digital currency (CBDC …

are the price of investment goods, distance to major world cities, and political rights. This suggests that growth … different prior assumptions on expected model size. "--World Bank web site …

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

the retail payments market can send negative effects cascading throughout the financial realm. The World Bank Global … the most common. The lessons learned during more than a decade of World Bank Group technical assistance, along with the … payments instruments and methods 2010 presents the results of the first World Bank survey among central banks that collected …

Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance … (in its role as currency issuer and as the operator of the Automated Clearing House); 4 money transfer operators; and the …

"The most basic argument for insurance is that it reduces financial risk. But since insurance opens up new … patient, it is not immediately obvious that insurance will in practice reduce financial risk. The authors analyze the effect …'s own per capita income. The estimates of the effect of insurance on financial risk allow for the possible endogeneity of …