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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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The Role of ICT in Reducing Information Asymmetry for Financial Access
Asongu, Simplice; Moulin, Bertrand - 2016
This study assesses the role of ICT in complementing private credit bureaus (PCB) and public credit registries (PCR) in … marginal effects from interactions between ICT and PCR (PCB) are consistently positive (negative); (ii) net effects from … financial deposits. Overall, the complementarity between information offices and ICT in boosting financial access is still very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596344
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Reducing Information Asymmetry with ICT: A critical review of loan price and quantity effects in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Roux, Sara Le - 2016
This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596360
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Enhancing ICT for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Roux, Sara Le - 2016
This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development … designed to boost ICT (mobile phone, internet, telephone) penetration will increase inclusive development in the post-2015 … sustainable development agenda. The degree of positive responsiveness of inclusive development to ICT varies across fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596365
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Is information diffusion a threat to market power for financial access? Insights from the African banking industry
Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Nwachukwu, Jacinta; … - 2016
This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596375
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Not all that Glitters is Gold: ICT and Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This paper examines the short and long term effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive … human development in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596387
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The mobile phone as an argument for good governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; … - 2018
Purpose- This study presents theoretical and empirical arguments for the role of mobile telephony in promoting good governance in 47 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical inquiry uses an endogeneity-robust GMM approach with forward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112135
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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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The comparative economics of ICT, environmental degradation and inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Pyke, Chris - 2018
This study examines how information and communication technology (ICT) could be employed to dampen the potentially …-Saharan African countries. ICT is captured with internet and mobile phone penetration rates whereas environmental degradation is …. Unstable). Baseline findings broadly show that improvement in both of measures of ICT would significantly diminish the possibly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112167
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ICT, financial access and gender inclusion in the formal economic sector: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
The study investigates the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in modulating the effect of …, financial access is measured with deposit and credit channels while ICT is proxied by mobile phone penetration, internet … empirical evidence is based on Generalized Method of Moments. Policy thresholds are established at which, ICT modulates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112178