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We examine how the development of the digital infrastructure known as the 'India Stack'-including an interoperable payments system, a universal digital ID, and other features-is delivering on the government's objective to expand the provision of financial services. While each individual...
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empirical analysis, we build a parsimonious model of bank screening and lending that predicts that IT in banking can spur …
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be associated with greater resort to informal financial services compared with formal, bank-based access. This highlights …
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Despite some improvement since 2011, Latin America and the Caribbean continue to lag behind other regions in terms of financial inclusion. There is no clear evidence that fintech developments have supported greater financial inclusion in LAC, contrary to what has been observed elsewhere in the...
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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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Mobile money services have rapidly expanded across emerging and developing economies and enabled new ways through which households and firms can conduct payments, save and send remittances. We explore how mobile money use can impact economic outcomes in India using granular data on transactions...
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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 used in US commercial bank branches after mapping them to their parent … bank. We find that higher intensity of IT-adoption led to significantly lower non-performing loans when the crisis hit …
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The literature on the economic effects of electronic money and banking lacks organization and a common analytical framework. This paper identifies the main issues raised by e-money and e-banking and presents them as six puzzles. Our solutions to the puzzles build a framework for analyzing the...
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We study 1,400 UK syndicated loans, together with the financial history of the lead bank and the borrowing firm. We … that it primarily reflects the lead bank's screening and monitoring activities. (ii) As a bank becomes larger, more … profitability and financial distress during the lending relationship. By relating the state of bank balance sheets to borrower …
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