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‘mobile phone penetration' and ‘mobile banking', with a higher income-equalizing effect in the latter than in the former …
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The object of this paper is to complement theoretical 'mobile penetration' literature with empirical evidence in a dual manner: on the one hand, assess the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration and; on the other hand, the instrumentality of good governance in this nexus. Main...
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Purpose - The aim of this paper is to complement theoretical and qualitative literature with empirical evidence on the income-redistributive effect of mobile phone penetration in 52 African countries. Design/methodology/approach - Robust Ordinary Least Squares and Two Stage Least Squares...
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sector in developing countries. The phenomenon of mobile banking is such an example. …
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Using twenty-five policy variables, we investigate determinants of mobile phone/banking in 49 Sub-Saharan African … development, especially in the contemporary specifications. Fourth, mobile banking is positively linked with: (i) trade in …
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In the first macroeconomic empirical assessment of the relationship between mobile phones and finance, this paper examines the correlations between mobile phone penetration and financial development using two conflicting definitions of the financial system in the financial development...
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In the first empirical assessment of the incidence of mobile banking on financial intermediary development in Africa … banking has a negative incidence on traditional financial intermediary dynamics of depth, activity and size. However, when a … previously missing informal-financial sector component is integrated into the definition (Asongu, 2011), mobile-banking has a …
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In the first macroeconomic empirical assessment of the relationship between mobile phones and finance, this paper examines the correlations between mobile phone penetration and financial development using two conflicting definitions of the financial system in the financial development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110401
‘mobile phone penetration’ and ‘mobile banking’, with a higher income-equalizing effect in the latter than in the former …
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