Using 288 cities in China from 2000 to 2018, we show that a one-standard-deviation increase in bank concentration is … characteristics. Cities with higher bank concentration have less entrepreneurship and labor income. We use China’s 2009 bank …

observe a significant impact on most of the fronts. MFIs’ participation increases overall savings (total bank deposits) and …

This paper examines digital finance usage in the UK, US, India and Nigeria. Using data from the global financial … development indicators, the findings reveal that the UK and US have higher digital finance usage than India and Nigeria. The US … has higher credit card usage compared to the UK while the UK has higher debit card usage compared to the US. Also, Nigeria …

right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …

which are bank specific, financial sector specific and macroeconomic are used as explanatory variables in the balanced panel … regressions. Among the bank-specific variables, capital ratio and credit risk have significant impact on bank profitability. While … bank profitability positively. Two financial sector development variables are used as explanatory variables in the panel …