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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,...
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While several determinants of ICT usage has been investigated in the literature, the impact of access to electricity …, Internet and smartphones, as well as average revenue per user (ARPU) to evaluate the impact of access to electricity on ICT … margins, we find that ICT usage increases by 0.43 US dollar per connected user, meaning that mobile ARPU would have declined …
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This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112189
Purpose - This study investigates the role of ICT in modulating the effect of governance on insurance penetration in 42 … are used in the analysis, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The three ICT modulating dynamics employed … significant. Orginality/value - To the best our knowledge, studies on the relevance of ICT in promoting insurance consumption …
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This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality … interact with primary school education to decrease income inequality. Second, all ICT indicators interact with secondary school … education and lifelong learning to have a positive effect on economic growth. Fourth, ICT indicators do not significantly …
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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 …
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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/10011542439
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/10011499914
This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998776
information sharing offices and information and communication technology (ICT). The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668538