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Financial Inclusion and Bank Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mengistu, Azanaw - 2019
In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895126
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Remittances and Macroeconomic Volatility in African Countries
Jidoud, Ahmat - 2015
This paper investigates the channels through which remittances affect macroeconomic volatility in African countries … that remittances - as a share of GDP - have a significant smoothing impact on output volatility but their impact on … consumption volatility is somewhat small. Furthermore, remittances are found to absorb a substantial amount of GDP shocks in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024443
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Do Remittances Enhance Financial Inclusion in LMICs and in Fragile States?
Ben Naceur, Sami - 2020
This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the … period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830840
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Building Supervisory Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa - An Analytical Framework
Quintyn, Marc - 2007
Current trends in financial sector development in sub-Saharan Africa are prompting policymakers to focus on the design of appropriate supervisory structures. Against the backdrop of worldwide efforts to remodel supervisory structures, this paper develops an analytical framework for designing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777767
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Tech in Fin Before FinTech : Blessing or Curse for Financial Stability?
Pierri, Nicola - 2020
Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831611
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Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality
Aslan, Goksu - 2017
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942334
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China's Impacts on SSA Through the Lens of Growth and Exports
Mu, Yibin - 2018
The analysis of China's impacts on the 44 SSA countries reveals that: (i) after joining the WTO in 2001, China has started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929920
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Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries : Balancing Financial Stability and Development
Marchettini, Daniela - 2015
We propose a toolkit for the assessment of systemic risk buildup in low income countries. We show that, due to non-linearity in the relationship between credit and financial stability, the assessment should be conducted with different tools at different stages of financial development. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015592
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What Matters for Financial Development and Stability?
Almarzoqi, Raja - 2015
This study aims to identify policies that influence the development of financial institutions as measured across three dimensions: depth, efficiency, and stability. Applying the concept of the financial possibility frontier, developed by Beck & Feyen (2013) and formalized by Barajas et al...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015608
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Taming Financial Development to Reduce Crises
Ben Naceur, Sami - 2019
This paper assesses whether and how financial development triggers the occurrence of banking crises. It builds on a database that includes financial development as well as financial access, depth and efficiency for almost 100 countries. Through estimation of a dynamic logit panel model, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868462