Author/Editor: Bas B Bakker, Beatriz Garcia-Nunes, Weicheng Lian, Yang Liu, Camila Perez Marulanda, Adam Siddiq, Mariusz A Sumlinski, Yuanchen Yang, Dmitry Vasilyev.

Release Date:March, 2023

In the past decade, fintech has shaken up the financial sector in Latin America providing innovations in lending, payments, insurance, and regulation and compliance. This paper examines this more...

Author/Editor: Kenneth Rogoff, Yuanchen Yang.

Release Date:September, 2022

This paper provides new estimates of the housing stock, construction rates and price developments by city tier in China in order to understand where imbalances might be concentrated, and the more...

Author/Editor: Boileau Loko, Yuanchen Yang.

Release Date:June, 2022

Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows more...

Author/Editor: Yuanchen Yang.

Release Date:June, 2021

We differentiate the effects of passive institutional investors, which mainly refer to index funds that adopt a passive portfolio strategy, on firms' innovation activities and innovation strategies. more...

Author/Editor: Jelle Barkema, Borislava Mircheva, Mico Mrkaic, Yuanchen Yang.

Release Date:May, 2021

Author/Editor: Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Yuanchen Yang.

Release Date:July, 2020

This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is more...

Author/Editor: Reda Cherif, Sandesh Dhungana, Xiangming Fang, Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Yuanchen Yang, Mustafa Yenice, Jung Eun Yoon.

Release Date:February, 2020

Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question by using country-and firm-level data for a sample of 39 sub-Saharan African more...