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Bank privatization and performance : empirical evidence from Nigeria

Beck, Thorsten - 2005

--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …

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Bank Privatization and Performance : Empirical Evidence from Nigeria

Beck, Thorsten; Cull, Robert; Jerome, Afeikhena - 2012

The authors assess the effect of privatization on performance in a panel of Nigerian banks for the period 1990-2001. They find evidence of performance improvement in nine banks that were privatized, which is remarkable given the inhospitable environment for true financial intermediation. Their...

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Bank Privatization and Performance : Empirical Evidence from Nigeria

Beck, Thorsten; Cull, Robert; Jerome, Afeikhena Theo - 2005

part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066998

Fintech and financial inclusion : opportunities and pitfalls

Beck, Thorsten - 2020

Financial innovation in the form of new delivery channels, products, and providers has helped push out the frontier of access to finance and thus increase the bankable and banked population. Mobile money and crowdfunding platforms are prime examples for this. The same financial innovation has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259324

Which households use banks? : evidence from the transition economies

Beck, Thorsten; Browning, Martin James - 2011

services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure …. At the household level we find that the holding of a bank account or bank card increases with income, wealth and … integration. Our results show that foreign bank ownership is associated with more bank accounts among high-wealth, high …