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Bank Competition and Household Privacy in a Digital Payment Monopoly
Agur, Itai; Ari, Anil; Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2023
Lenders can exploit households' payment data to infer their creditworthiness. When households value privacy, they then … face a tradeoff between protecting such privacy and credit conditions. We study how the introduction of an informationally …
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Tec(h)tonic Shifts : Taxing the 'Digital Economy'
Aslam, Aqib - 2020
The ever-increasing digitalization of businesses has accelerated the need to address the many shortcomings and unresolved issues within the international corporate income tax system. In particular, the customer or 'user'-through their online activities-is now considered by many as being a...
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E-Commerce During COVID : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies
Alcedo, Joel; Cavallo, Alberto; Dwyer, Bricklin; … - 2022
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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Stay Competitive in the Digital Age : The Future of Banks
Liu, Estelle - 2021
infrastructure, a strong legal and business environment, and healthy competition. Nonetheless, some digital leaders may fall behind …
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The Effects of Data Transparency Policy Reforms on Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads
Choi, Sangyup - 2017
We find that data transparency policy reforms, reflected in subscriptions to the IMF's Data Standards Initiatives (SDDS and GDDS), reduce the spreads of emerging market sovereign bonds. To overcome endogeneity issues regarding a country's decision to adopt such reforms, we first show that the...
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China's Digital Economy : Opportunities and Risks
Zhang, Longmei - 2019
maximizing the benefits of digitalization while minimizing related risks, such as potential labor disruption, privacy …
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E-Commerce as a Potential New Engine for Growth in Asia
Kinda, Tidiane - 2019
The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise …
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The Short-Term Impact of Product Market Reforms : A Cross-Country Firm-Level Analysis
Gal, Peter N. - 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of product market reforms in the short and medium term across 10 regulated industries and 18 advanced economies for the period 1998-2013 using internationally comparable firm-level data based on Orbis. It provides four key insights. First, product market reforms...
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How Do Regulations of Entry and Credit Access Relate to Industry Competition? International Evidence
Igan, Deniz - 2018
We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 … competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the industries with a naturally high entry rate. Rigid entry regulations are … exerting a positive effect on competition. These results suggest that incumbent firms are likely to enjoy the rent and market …
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Is Digitalization Driving Domestic Inflation?
Csonto, Balazs - 2020
impact is not large but has increased since 2012 and mainly operates through a cost/competition channel. Principal components …
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