- Can Information and Communications Technology Applications Contribute to Poverty Reduction? Lessons from Rural India
Report · 25 May 2006
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can reduce poverty by improving poor people's access to education, health, government and financial services. ICT can also help small farmers and…
- Development and Deployment Drivers of Clean Technology Innovations
Report · 30 October 2014
Despite the existing challenges in the capital market, technological and market uncertainties, the current business environment may be fertile for innovative firms that could find affordable and…
- Blockchain Technology Disrupting Traditional Records Systems
Report · 13 July 2017
This article gives a very general introduction to the technology, promises and limitations of blockchain technology --- popularized by the digital currency Bitcoin and a key force behind the surge of…
- The Regulation of Fintech Banks: Questions and Perspectives.
Report · 10 March 2020
This analysis concerns the regulation of fintech banks, having regard to the possibility of a business model in which the production and delivery of banking products and services are based on…
- Impact of Technology on the Performance of Commercial Banks in Bangladesh
30 January 2018
mong the financial service industry, the banking sector was one of the first to embrace rapid globalization and benefit significantly from IT development. Recently the private banks of Bangladesh are…
- The Macroeconomic Effects of Green Technology Shocks
Report · 16 April 2024
essing the economic implications of the transition towards a more environmentally sustainable economy is a daunting task. By employing two granular datasets on US patenting, we exploit variations in…
- The role of prudential regulation and supervision of insurers in sustainable finance
Report · 4 January 2024
This chapter addresses the role of prudential supervision in sustainable finance from the insurance sector perspective. The ability of the insurance and reinsurance sector to contribute to the…
- Innovation and Technology Salience in Emerging Data-Intensive Domains: Catalysts for the Stock Market Valuation of Large Tech Companies
16 September 2023
This study explores how innovation in the emerging data-intensive technology domains affects the stock market valuation of large technology companies. It provides new insights by merging traditional…
- 'Blocks of Lading': Distributed Ledger Technology and the Disruption of Sea Carriage Regulation
17 June 2019
The bill of lading has, for centuries, been an integral component in the maritime shipping industry. However, the stagnation in the development of this legal instrument is contrasted with the…
- Does Inflation Adjust Faster to Aggregate Technology Shocks than to Monetary Policy Shocks?
This paper studies U.S. inflation adjustment speed to aggregate technology shocks and to monetary policy shocks in a Bayesian VAR model with a large number of macroeconomic variables. According to…
- An Extension of the Theory of Technology Dominance: Capturing the Underlying Causal Complexity
25 May 2022
The Theory of Technology Dominance (TTD) provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems impact human decision-making. The theory has three phases…
- The Global Financial CrisisWhat Drove the Build-Up?
25 September 2014
This paper investigates empirically three potential drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis: rising global imbalances (capital flows); loose monetary policy; and…
- The Response of Prices to Technology and Monetary Policy Shocks under Rational Inattention
The speed of inflation adjustment to aggregate technology shocks is substantially larger than to monetary policy shocks. Prices adjust very quickly to technology shocks, while they only respond…
- The Regulation of Fintech Banks: Questions and Perspectives
Report · 8 February 2023
This analysis concerns the regulation of fintech banks, having regard to the possibility of a business model in which the production and delivery of banking products and services are based on…
- Exploring the Constituents of Growth in a Technology Cluster: Evidence from Cambridge, UK
6 September 2011
High-growth firms appear to be key drivers of new industries and technologies. Here we investigate the contribution of these and other types of firm to a technology cluster, in the context of…
- Globalized Finance and National Regulation: The Influence of Internationalization on Supervisory Consolidation
25 March 2010
Financial regulatory reform remains high on global and national political agendas. Some proposals call for the consolidation of regulatory structures by merging or eliminating existing regulatory…
- Blockchain as a Disruptive Technology in Healthcare and Financial Services - a Review Based Analysis on Current Implementations
Report · 22 June 2020
Blockchain is a time-stamped series of immutable records it is managed by a cluster of computers owned by different entities it allows only authorized participants to access data and log of all…
- Regulatory Technology – Replacing Law with Computer Code
Report · 23 July 2018
Recently both the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have carried out experiments using new digital technology for regulatory purposes. The idea is to replace rules written in…
- Internet Technology and Economic Fraud
21 June 2024
This paper examines the impact of internet technology on households' exposure to economic fraud using data from the 2015 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS). Through instrumental variable…
- Islamic Banks and the European Banking System: Critical Profiles and Law
7 July 2022
This paper provides a general, but in-depth, overview of aspects of incompatibility and actual interest profiles of Islamic finance in relation to the system of the European banking system…
- Impact of Information Technology in Banking - Cyber Law and Cyber Security in India
15 June 2016
fter 1990, Government of India incepted the liberalization policies over investments. Indian Economy is greatly contributed by Financial Institutions through great improvement in quality of service…
- Governance in the Era of Blockchain Technology in Qatar: A Roadmap and a Manual for Trade Finance
Report · 21 October 2021
Nations worldwide have sought to capitalize on the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) including Blockchain, but struggled to strike a balance between encouraging investment and…
- ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ Technology Can Reduce Dispute Resolution Costs When Times are Tough and Improve Outcomes
Report · 24 May 2011
Cost reduction is one of the desirable results frequently attributed to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes. Although it is reasonable to assume that businesses always are interested in…
- Integrating with Their Feet: Cross-Border Lending at the German-Austrian Border
15 April 2008
The financial integration in Europe concentrates on cross-border mergers rather than cross-border lending and emphasizes the need for harmonizing bank regulation and supervision. We study the impact…
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