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Financial Inclusion, Growth and Inequality: A Model Application to Colombia

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Karpowicz I.
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics
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2016
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issue 2(6)
68-89
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Financial inclusion has been one of the key pillars of Colombia’s development strategy for a number of years. Financial inclusion policies have aimed at channeling microcredit to poor, spreading formal banking system usage, fostering electronic payment acceptance, and making financial services more affordable. Using simulations from a general equilibrium model it is possible to identify the most binding financial sector frictions that preclude financial inclusion of enterprises, and study the effects on growth and inequality of efforts to remove these frictions. The study finds that lowering contraints on collateral promises higher growth while inequality is better tackled through measures that lower the financial participation cost
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What determines firms’ innovation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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Afandi E., Kermani M.
Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
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2014
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vol. 14
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issue 1
1-20
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By employing a rich sample of firm-level data in seven Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries from Europe and Central Asia, our paper investigates core as well as some specific determinants of firm innovation. We find that the likelihood of engaging in innovation for a firm increases with its core socio-economic characteristics such as size, age, capacity utilization, domestic competition and foreign ownership. In addition to the estimates of these socio-economic covariates, the ultimate purpose of our study is to obtain more in-depth knowledge about the policy implacable factors for firm innovation that the countries could focus on. These policy-related factors are: (i) access to finance, (ii) human capital, and (iii) foreign trade. In this respect, our study finds that firm’s innovation increases with better financial inclusion, greater human capital and engagement in foreign trade. We argue that these analysis and results, coupled with inclusive and targeted policies, can be used to enrich the process of private sector innovation in the region’s countries.
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Public banking for the cultural sector: financial instruments and the new financial intermediaries

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Monclus R. P.
International Review of Social Research
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2015
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vol. 5
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issue 2
88-101
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The use of financial instruments by the public sector to support the cultural and creative field is a rising trend. At a national and supranational level, public bodies are increasingly employing financial instruments, such as loan guarantees, to facilitate debt financing to creative organisations. This paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of these changes. It explores the logic of public intervention underpinning the emergence of this phenomenon in four distinct polities; France, Spain, the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU), as well as their mutual influences. It does so from a historical perspective, placing special attention to economic, political and ideational factors. The article concludes by arguing that although financial instruments cannot be considered as novel mechanisms, the intensity under which they are currently being advanced may signal towards a profound change for the governance of the cultural sector.
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Financial development and income inequality

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Weychert E.
Central European Economic Journal
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2020
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vol. 7
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issue 54
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This paper analyses the influence of financial development on income inequality. Throughout this work, one may find the overview of theoretical and empirical literature as well as the empirical model using fixed panel data method. This research paper tries to disentangle the opposing views on the relationship between finance and income distribution, by evaluating the impact of the different dimensions of financial development on the level of income inequality. The important added value of this research is the usage of quintiles of income distribution as a dependent variable that may help to recognise the effect of financial development on the poorest and richest. Another novelty of the paper is the consideration of the effects of financial variables on Gini coefficient in the long and short run. The main results of the analysis using dataset from 2003 to 2014 indicate that financial access decreases income inequality.
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Dostęp do finansowania jako czynnik rozwoju małych przedsiębiorstw w strefie euro

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Kobeszko A.
Zeszyty Naukowe PWSZ w Płocku. Nauki Ekonomiczne
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2015
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vol. 2(22)
393-401
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The article examines access to finance of small enterprises in euro zone and financial constraints affecting frim growth. It results from the research that the factors that have an impact on the availability of external financing include i.a. general economic outlook, firm-specific outlook and willingness of banks to lend. Recently a fragile economic growth has negatively impacted availability of external financing for all firms in the euro area. In the case of small enterprises access to bank loans has stabilized, however it has deteriorated and remained a key issue in the case of microfirms. Financial obstacles, including availability of external financing, are the most important growth constraints. They impact the smallest firm the most. It suggests that finance should be treated with the first priority in countries interested in creating the environment that facilitates business activity.
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