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-crisis period. Fourth, the net effect from the: pre-crisis period is lower on money supply and banking system efficiency; post …
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This paper formally identifies an important role of banks: Banks competitively internalize production externalities and facilitate economic growth. I formulate a canonical growth model with externalities as a game among consumers, firms, and banks. Banks compete for deposits to seek monopoly...
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Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in particular the more bank-based economies of continental...
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exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
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Purpose - This study investigates the role of financial access in moderating the effect of governance on insurance … insurance indicators are used, notably: life insurance and non-life insurance. Six governance measurements are also used, namely … established from the GMM. First, financial access promotes life insurance through channels of political stability, "voice …
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This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the … insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic … implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by life insurers appears to be the key systemic vulnerability. Building on …
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This study investigates the effect information sharing has on financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing is measured with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector development...
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The present inquiry contributes to extant literature by simultaneously accounting for variations in financial development and financial globalisation in the assessment of hypothetical initial financial development conditions for the rewards of financial globalisation. The policy relevance for...
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supply to liquid liabilities. This equation has put on the margin (and skewed) burgeoning phenomena of mobile banking …
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This paper investigates how financial, trade, institutional and political liberalization policies have affected financial sector competition in Africa using updated data to appraise second generation reforms. The 'freedom to trade' and 'economic freedom' indices are employed. Hitherto,...
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