| Reference : Regional foreign banks and financial inclusion: Evidence from Africa |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Business & economic sciences : Finance | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39244 | |||
| Regional foreign banks and financial inclusion: Evidence from Africa | |
| English | |
Leon, Florian  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >] | |
| Zins, Alexandra [] | |
| In press | |
| Economic Modelling | |
| Elsevier | |
| Yes (verified by ORBilu) | |
| 0264-9993 | |
| Netherlands | |
| [en] Credit access ; Foreign banks ; Africa ; Financial inclusion ; information asymmetries | |
| [en] Regional foreign banks expanded quickly over the past decade in developing and emerging
countries and have a growing influence in banking systems. We question whether the development of African regional foreign banks, also called Pan-African banks, influences financial inclusion of firms and households. To this end, we combine the World Bank Global Findex database and the World Bank Enterprise Surveys with a hand-collected database on the presence of regional foreign banks. We find that Pan-African banks presence increases firms’ access to credit and limited evidence that they favor financial access of the middle class by restoring confidence in banks. We suggest that this impact is related to the adoption of an aggressive strategy aiming at gaining market shares rather than through the exploitation of informational and technological advantages. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/39244 | |
| 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.03.012 | |
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999318313087?via%3Dihub |
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