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This paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payments and overall economic growth. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 1995–2009, the results confirm that migration to efficient electronic retail payments stimulates overall economic growth, consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548604
This paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payments and the real economy. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 1995-2009, the results confirm that migration to efficient electronic retail payments stimulates the overall economy, consumption and trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605617
This paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payments and overall economic growth. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 1995-2009, the results confirm that migration to efficient electronic retail payments stimulates overall economic growth, consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148153
This paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payments and overall economic growth. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 1995–2009, the results confirm that migration to efficient electronic retail payments stimulates overall economic growth, consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104183
This paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payments and the real economy. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 1995-2009, the results confirm that migration to efficient electronic retail payments stimulates the overall economy, consumption and trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078520
-wide institutional quality (corruption) on various bank activities: (i) the ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans; (ii) the capital … quality can increase the risk of bank defaults when bank managers in corrupt nations view the probability of apprehension as … interest rate spreads. While membership in the European Union has a stabilizing effect, however, the central-bank autonomy does …
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We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...
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The pace of transition in China over the last two decades has led to great variation across the country in terms of institutional and financial development. In this paper, using a panel of Chinese provinces during the period 1993-2006, we empirically investigate the determinants of the...
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volatility, we find that firms with high stock price fragility pay higher bank loan costs than firms with low fragility. This …
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that the cost of bank loans is significantly higher for firms headquartered in states with greater local product market … competition. We find that the cost of bank loans is lower for firms facing less intense local product market competition after the …
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