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This paper reviews the empirical relationships between credit growth, economic recovery, and bank profitability in … Europe after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that the post-GFC recoveries in Europe have been weaker than previous … underperformance. Bank lending has been subdued as well, but this appears to have only held back the recovery relatively moderately. A …
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the term sovereign risk. Developments in Europe since early 2010 presented new challenges for the functioning of private … shows that exposure to sovereign risk may have limited the ability of banks in Europe to attract deposits. The results are … robust to inclusion of conventional measures of bank performance and the sector-wide holdings of foreign sovereign debt …
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policymakers’ efforts to strengthen bank capitalization …
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Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for …
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Digital financial services have been a key driver of financial inclusion in recent years. While there is evidence that financial inclusion through traditional services has a positive impact on economic growth, do the same results carry over for digital financial inclusion? What drives digital...
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, such as encouraging banking competition or channeling government payments through bank accounts, play an important role …
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Can fintech credit fill the credit gap in the consumer and business segments? There are few cross-country studies that explore this question. Focusing on marketplace lending, an important part of fintech credit, we use data for 109 countries from 2015 to 2017 to study the relationship between...
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Countries in the MENAP and CCA regions have the lowest levels of financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the world. The paper provides empirical evidence on the drivers of SME access to finance for a large sample of countries, and identifies key policy priorities for these...
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