Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa

Arbeitspapier

This study investigates the effect information sharing has on financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. Information sharing is measured with private credit bureaus and public credit registries. Hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector development are employed, namely: financial sector dynamics of formalization, informalization and non-formalization. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). The following findings are established. Information sharing bureaus increase (reduce) formal (informal/non-formal) financial sector development. In order to ensure that information sharing bureaus improve (decrease) formal (informal/non-formal) financial development, public credit registries should have between 45.45 and 50 percent coverage while private credit bureaus should have at least 26.25 percent coverage.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/16/023

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Financial Institutions and Services: General ; Financial Institutions and Services: Other ; Telecommunications ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Thema: Information sharing ; Banking ; Africa

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Tchamyou, Vanessa ; Asongu, Simplice
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
• (wo): Yaoundé
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149947
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ