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This study assesses the role of ICT in complementing private credit bureaus (PCB) and public credit registries (PCR) in … marginal effects from interactions between ICT and PCR (PCB) are consistently positive (negative); (ii) net effects from … financial deposits. Overall, the complementarity between information offices and ICT in boosting financial access is still very …
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This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …
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This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...
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This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
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Purpose - This study investigates the role of ICT in modulating the effect of governance on insurance penetration in 42 … are used in the analysis, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The three ICT modulating dynamics employed … significant. Orginality/value - To the best our knowledge, studies on the relevance of ICT in promoting insurance consumption …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education and lifelong learning to have a positive effect on economic growth. Fourth, ICT indicators do not significantly …
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Purpose - This study examines how linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) and remittances … warehouse and time to register a property). We also establish ICT penetration thresholds at which the unconditional effect of … our knowledge, this is the first study to assess linkages between ICT, remittances and doing business in Sub …
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This study assesses the role of ICT (internet and mobile phone penetration) in complementing financial sector … between ICT, financial sector development and financial activity. First, the interaction between ICT and financial … net effects are positive. Third, the potentially appealing interaction between ICT and informalization produces positive …
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information sharing offices and information and communication technology (ICT). The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 …
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In this study we investigate the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in conflicts of financial … net effect of ICT in formalization for financial activity in the banking system is consistently beneficial with positive … or complementary effects. Second, the net effect of ICT in financial informalization for financial activity in the …
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