This paper studies the impact of financial inclusion on wealth accumulation. Exploiting the US interstate branching deregulation between 1994 and 2005, we find that an exogenous expansion of bank branches increases low-income household financial inclusion. We then show that financial inclusion...

This chapter is the introduction to the book Nudge and the Law: A European Perspective. It sets the scene for an exploration of the legal implications of the emergent phenomenon of behaviourally informed intervention. More precisely, we focuses on the challenges and opportunities it may offer to...

Since 1 June 2003 the file of the Central Office for Credits to Private Individuals has recorded information relating to all consumer credits and mortgage loans contracted by natural persons for private purposes, as well as any payment defaults resulting from these loans. This registration aims...

Nudge is a semantically multifarious concept that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. In one of its senses, it is a policy for redirecting an agent's choices by only slightly altering his choice conditions, in another sense, it is concerned with bounded rationality...

Since 1 June 2003 the file of the Central Office for Credits to Private Individuals has recorded information relating to all consumer credits and mortgage loans contracted by natural persons for private purposes, as well as any payment defaults resulting from these loans. This registration aims...

La Banque de France est concernée par le développement et la compétitivité des territoires, par l’amélioration de l’accès et de la qualité des services offerts aux publics, thèmes au coeur du Contrat de service public conclu, depuis 2003, avec l’État.

Lors de leur réunion du 3 novembre à Nice, les dirigeants du G20 ont adopté dix principes de haut niveau sur la protection des consommateurs dans le domaine des services financiers. Ces principes ont pour objectif de participer au rétablissement de la confiance des consommateurs et à...

Plus de 200 spécialistes de la Banque de France forment gratuitement chaque année 25 000 professionnels à l’authentification des billets de banque pour leur permettre de détecter toutes les contrefaçons.