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Financial inclusion, financial regulation, and education in Bangladesh
Khalily, M. A. Baqui - 2016
Like in many other countries, inclusive finance for inclusive growth has become a policy issue in Bangladesh following the global financial crisis in 2008. Over the past 10 years, intensity of financial deepening and access to financial services has increased. Both banks and microfinance...
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Bank ownership, board characteristics and performance: Evidence from commercial banks in India
Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-30
India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance … CEO duality is high. We find that a longer CEO tenure has significant positive effects on bank outcomes with these effects …
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Financial inclusion, regulation, financial literacy, and financial education in Armenia
Nurbekyan, Armen; Hovanessian, Naneh - 2018
Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of physical infrastructure, higher poverty rates, and the low level of financial literacy are the...
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
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Financial stability and financial inclusion
Morgan, Peter J.; Pontines, Victor - 2014
inclusion (together with some control variables) on some measures of financial stability, including bank non-performing loans … and bank Z-scores. We find some evidence that an increased share of lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …
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Financial inclusion, regulation, and education in Sri Lanka
Kelegama, Saman; Tilakaratna, Ganga - 2014
Sri Lanka has achieved a high level of financial inclusion compared to other South Asian countries. Its financial sector comprises a wide range of financial institutions providing financial services such as loans, savings, pawning, leasing and finance, and remittance and money transfer...
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Hometown investment trust funds: An analysis of credit risk
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2014
. Asian economies are often characterized as having bank-dominated financial systems and underdeveloped capital markets, in …
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Estimating dual deposit insurance premium rates and forecasting non-performing loans: Two new models
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Nili, Farhad - 2015
case of bank default, and provides it with sufficient funds as precautionary reserves. To identify and classify healthier …
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Loan-to-value policy as a macroprudential tool: The case of residential mortgage loans in Asia
Morgan, Peter J.; Regis, Paulo José; Salike, Nimesh - 2015
Credit creation in the housing market has been a key source of systemic financial risk, and therefore is at the center …
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Financial inclusion, regulation, and education in Germany
Neuberger, Doris - 2015
Germany's bank-based financial system provides a high level of financial inclusion, measured by bank outreach and use … implementing the right to a basic bank account with an overdraft facility and protection against attachment, establishing public … credit bureaus, redirecting banking regulation toward the protection of borrowers in long-term credit relationships, and …
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