Over the past seventy years, the proposal to narrow the scope of banks has occurred more and more frequently in financial debates and research. Narrow banking would prevent deposit-issuing banks from lending to the private sector and restrict nonbank intermediaries from funding investments with...

This new database of indicators of financial development and structure across countries and over time unites a range of indicators that measure the size, activity, and efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets.Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine introduce a new database of indicators of...

Nearly 2 billion individual's are connected to the net throughout the last twenty years, the technology revolution has had an intense and irreversible impact on the globe and Indian securities market has conjointly witnessed these changes. From its formal beginning within the nineteenth century,...