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Bank Credit, Asset Prices and Financial Stability : Evidence From French Banks
Pouvelle, Cyril - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of asset prices on credit growth in France and tries to disentangle credit demand and … supply factors, both for the whole 1993-2010 period and during periods of financial instability. Using bank-level panel data …
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French Banks Amid the Global Financial Crisis
Xiao, Yingbin - 2009
This paper runs the gamut of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine the performance of French banks during 2006-2008 and the financial support measures taken by the French government. French banks were not immune but proved relatively resilient to the global financial crisis reflecting...
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The impact of the global financial crisis on microfinance and policy implications
Di Bella, Gabriel - 2011
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Is digital financial inclusion unlocking growth?
Khera, Purva; Ng, Stephanie; Ogawa, Sumiko; Sahay, Ratna - 2021
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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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020
across regions, income levels, and gender, among others. It points out that structural, as well as policy-related, factors …, such as encouraging banking competition or channeling government payments through bank accounts, play an important role …
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Filling the gap : digital credit and financial inclusion
Bazarbash, Majid; Beaton, Kimberly - 2020
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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Unlocking access to finance for SMEs : a cross-country analysis
Fouejieu, Armand; Ndoye Faye, Anta; Sydorenko, Tetyana - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251308
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Do remittances enhance financial inclusion in LMICs and in fragile states?
Ben Naceur, Samy; Chami, Ralph; Trabelsi, Mohamed - 2020
, while raising formal household bank savings and allowing for more intermediation, at high levels of remittance-to-GDP …
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Closing gender gaps in India : does increasing womens' access to finance help?
Khera, Purva - 2018
Gender gaps in womens' economic opportunities-labor market and entrepreneurship-have remained high in India. Lack of … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that an increase in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in … higher female entrepreneurship and employment, which boosts India's output by 1.6 percent. However, regulations and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932241
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Financial inclusion under the microscope
Agarwal, Sumit; Kigabo, Thomas; Minoiu, Camelia; … - 2018
We examine the impact of a large-scale microcredit expansion program on financial access and the transition of …
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