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In recent years there has been substantial theoretical and empirical work on the role that financial markets play in fostering economic growth and development. This paper provides a selective review of the literature, as well as new empirical evidence on the relationship between financial...
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The USD asset share of non-U.S. banks captures the demand for dollars by these investors. An instrumental variable strategy identifies a causal link from the USD asset share to the USD exchange rate. Cross-sectional asset pricing tests show that the USD asset share is a highly significant...
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The rapid uptake of mobile money in recent years has generated new data needs and growing interest in understanding its … impact on broad money. This paper reviews mobile money trends using mobile money data from the Financial Access Survey (FAS …) and examines the statistical treatment of mobile money under the IMF's Monetary and Financial Statistics (MFS) framework …
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Whereas most of the literature related to the so-called 'resource curse' tends to emphasize on institutional factors and public policies, in this research we focus on the role of the financial sector, which has been surprisingly overlooked. We find that countries that have financial systems with...
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Electronic money (e-money), as a network good, could become an important form of currency in the future. Such a … development could affect monetary policy effectiveness. If an increased use of e-money substantially limits the demand for central … bank reserves, this limitation would require changes in the central bank operational target and a closer coordination of …
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This study investigates the relationship between production efficiency in financial intermediation and financial system size. The study predicts and tests for the existence of ""systemic scale economies"" (SSEs), whereby value-maximizing intermediaries operating in large systems are expected to...
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the real economy. The study also runs an empirical exercise to estimate the costs of bank narrowness and draws policy …
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not created due to a hold-up problem. Monetary expansion increases buyers' money holdings, and then, dealers are willing …
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