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The Global Findex Database 2017 : Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2018

In 2011 the World Bank-with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-launched the Global Findex database, the … world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data … collected in collaboration with Gallup, Incorporated, the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world …

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Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2007

This paper identifies factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net, using a comprehensive dataset covering 180 countries during the 1960-2003 period. Our analysis focuses on how private interest-group pressures, outside influences, and political-institutional factors...

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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty

Beck, Thorsten - 2005

This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...

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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...

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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

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Law and Firms' Access to Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

This paper contributes to the literature on how a country's legal origin influences the operation of its financial system by using firm-level survey data on the obstacles that firms face in raising external finance. The paper assesses two channels through which legal origin may influence the...

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Bank Concentration and Crises

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

Motivated by public policy debates about bank consolidation and conflicting theoretical predictions about the relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on...

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Regulations, Market Structure, Institutions, and the Cost of Financial Intermediation

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2003

This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on...

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Bank Supervision and Corporate Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

We examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across 49 countries. We find that firms in countries with strong official supervisory agencies that directly monitor banks tend to face greater financing obstacles. Moreover, powerful official...

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Deposit Insurance Around the Globe : Where Does it Work?

Kane, Edward J. - 2001

Explicit deposit insurance has been spreading rapidly in recent years, even to countries with low levels of financial and institutional development. Economic theory indicates that deposit-insurance design features interact--for good or ill--with country-specific elements of the financial and...

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