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Patterns and drivers of financial sector growth in the digital age : insights from a study of industrialized economies
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … economies were driven by total factor productivity, labor quality, and digital transformation. Lastly, digital transformation … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339316
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Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
for market power is a relevant mobile money innovation demand factor. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265914
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Patterns and Drivers of Financial Sector Growth in the Digital Age: Insights from a Study of Industrialized Economies
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … economies were driven by total factor productivity, labor quality, and digital transformation. Lastly, digital transformation … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549361
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Crime and social media
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, … - 2019
Purpose- The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112154
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Remittances, the diffusion of information and industrialisation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in … are positive marginal effects from the interaction between remittances and ICT in the FE regressions whereas there are … negative marginal impacts from the interaction between remittances and ICT; (ii) Interactions between remittances and mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112192
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Remittances, ICT and doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Biekpe, Nicholas; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2018
Purpose - This study examines how linkages between information and communication technology (ICT) and remittances … warehouse and time to register a property). We also establish ICT penetration thresholds at which the unconditional effect of … our knowledge, this is the first study to assess linkages between ICT, remittances and doing business in Sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956958
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Remittances, the diffusion of information and industrialisation in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on remittances for industrialisation in … are positive marginal effects from the interaction between remittances and ICT in the FE regressions whereas there are … negative marginal impacts from the interaction between remittances and ICT; (ii) Interactions between remittances and mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002838
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Crime and social media
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, … - 2019
Purpose- The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998083
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Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
for market power is a relevant mobile money innovation demand factor. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549269
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Human Capital, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Diffusion, Institutions and Economic Incentives : South Korea Versus Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of providing knowledge economy catch-up strategies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852645