 The Mobile Phone, Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa: A Quantile Regressions ApproachSimplice Asongu and Nicholas Odhiambo No 19/016, Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. from African Governance and Development Institute. Abstract: This study investigates linkages between the mobile phone, information sharing offices (ISO) and financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011. ISO are private credit bureaus and public credit registries. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. Two main hypotheses are tested: mobile phones complement ISO to enhance the formal financial sector (Hypothesis 1) and mobile phones complement ISO to reduce the informal financial sector (Hypothesis 2). The hypotheses are largely confirmed. This research adds to the existing body of literature by engaging hitherto unexplored dimensions of financial sector development and investigating the role of mobile phones in information sharing for financial sector development. Keywords: Information sharing; Banking sector development; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers) Forthcoming: Journal of the Knowledge Economy Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:agd:wpaper:19/016 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. from African Governance and Development Institute. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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