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A New Database on Financial Development and Structure
- T. Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, R. Levine
- Business
- 1 June 1999
The authors introduce a new database of indicators of financial development and structure across countries and over time. This database is unique in that it unites a variety of indicators that… Expand
Determinants of Commercial Bank Interest Margins and Profitability: Some International Evidence
- Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, H. Huizinga
- Economics
- 30 November 1999
Using bank-level data for 80 countries in the year's 1988-95, this article shows that differences in interest margins and bank profitability reflect a variety of determinants: bank characteristics,… Expand
Law, Finance and Firm Growth
- Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, V. Maksimovic
- Economics
- 1 July 1998
We investigate how differences in legal and financial systems affect firms' use of external financing to fund growth. We show that in countries whose legal systems score high on an efficiency index,… Expand
Islamic vs. Conventional Banking: Business Model, Efficiency and Stability
- Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Ouarda Merrouche
- Economics
- 1 October 2010
This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory. Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the conventional products can be redrafted… Expand
How Does Foreign Entry Affect the Domestic Banking Market?
- Stijn Claessens, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, H. Huizinga
- Economics, Computer Science
- 1 May 1998
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Financial Performance and Outreach: A Global Analysis of Leading Microbanks
- R. Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
- Economics
- 1 February 2006
Microfinance contracts have proven able to secure high rates of loan repayment in the face of limited liability and information asymmetries, but high repayment rates have not translated easily into… Expand
Finance, inequality and the poor
- Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, R. Levine
- Economics
- 6 March 2007
Financial development disproportionately boosts incomes of the poorest quintile and reduces income inequality. About 40% of the long-run impact of financial development on the income growth of the… Expand
Measuring Financial Inclusion: The Global Findex Database
- Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora F. Klapper
- Business
- 1 April 2012
This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of indicators that measure how adults in 148 economies save, borrow, make payments, and… Expand
Institutions, Financial Markets and Firm Debt Maturity
- V. Maksimovic, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
- Economics
- 1 November 1996
Do firms in developing countries use less long term debt than similar firms in industrial countries? This paper investigates the role of institutional factors in explaining firms' choice of debt… Expand
Does Deposit Insurance Increase Banking System Stability? An Empirical Investigation
- Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, E. Detragiache
- Business, Economics
- 1 November 1999
Based on evidence of 61 countries in 1980-97, the authors find that explicit deposit insurance tends to be detrimental to bank stability, the more so where bank interest rates are deregulated and the… Expand