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Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248500
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Bank Accounts, Bank Concentration and Mobile Money Innovations
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2023
The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in … 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be … having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one hand and on the other, that bank concentration which is a proxy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014355211
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Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in … 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be … having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one hand and on the other, that bank concentration which is a proxy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265914
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Mobile Banking Usage, Quality of Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
The transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals has substantially shifted the policy debate from development to inclusive development. Using interactive quantile regressions, we examine the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900664
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Conditional Determinants of Mobile Phones Penetration and Mobile Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
, business/bank, market-related, knowledge economy, external flows and human development. The empirical evidence is based on …, especially at low initial levels of mobile penetration; (ii) bank density; (iii) urban population density and (iv) internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936828
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Mobile Banking and Mobile Phone Penetration : Which is More Pro-Poor in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice - 2014
The contribution of this paper to complement theoretical and qualitative mobile penetration literature with empirical evidence is twofold: firstly, we assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; secondly, the instrumentality of financial development dynamics in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047710
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How Has Mobile Banking Stimulated Financial Development in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice - 2014
In the first empirical assessment of the incidence of mobile banking on financial intermediary development in Africa, we use two definitions of the financial system: the traditional IFS (2008) and Asongu (2011) measures of financial sector importance. When the conception of a financial system is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047724
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Mobile Phone Penetration, Mobile Banking and Inclusive Development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2016
The study assesses the role of mobile phones and mobile banking in decreasing inequality in 52 African countries. The empirical procedure involves first, examining the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and then investigating the contribution of mobile banking services in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988003
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Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Biekpe, Nicholas; Cassimon, Danny - 2020
The present research extends Lashitew, van Tulder and Liasse (2019, RP) in order to understand the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa. To make this assessment, a comparative analysis is engaged between sampled African countries and the corresponding sampled developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228921
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Human development thresholds for inclusive mobile banking in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 10 (2018) 6, pp. 735-744
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259696