PUBLICATIONS

@article{Asongu_252,
author = {Jacinta Nwachukwu Chris Pyke Simplice Asongu Sara le Roux},
url = {https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/IJMF-01-2018-0027},
doi = {10.1108/IJMF-01-2018-0027},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-03-20},
journal = {International Journal of Managerial Finance},
volume = {15},
number = {2},
pages = {130-163},
abstract = {Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with information and communication technology (ICT), in a panel of 162 banks consisting of 42 African countries for the period 2001–2011.

Design/methodology/approach
The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks in 42 African countries for the period 2001–2011. Misspecification errors associated with endogenous variables and unobserved heterogeneity in financial access are addressed with generalized method of moments and instrumental quantile regressions.

Findings
The findings uncover several major themes. First, ICT when integrated with the role of public credit registries significantly lowered the price of loans and raised the quantity of loans. Second, while the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit bureaus (PCBs) do not improve financial access, the corresponding marginal effects show that ICT could complement the characteristics of PCBs to reduce loan prices and increase loan quantity, but only when certain thresholds of ICT are attained. The authors compute and discuss the policy implications of these ICT thresholds for banks with low, intermediate and high levels of financial access.

Originality/value
This is one of the few studies to assess how the growing ICT can be leveraged in order to reduce information asymmetry in the banking industry with the ultimate aim of improving financial access in a continent where lack of access to finance is a critical policy syndrome.},
keywords = {Financial access, ICT, Information asymmetry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{Asongu_357,
author = {& Nwachukwu J C Asongu S. A.},
url = {https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/IJMF-08-2017-0179},
doi = {10.1108/IJMF-08-2017-0179},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-24},
journal = {International Journal Managerial Finance},
volume = {14},
number = {2},
pages = {p.188-209},
abstract = {Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how bank size affects the role of information asymmetry on financial access in a panel of 162 banks in 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011.

Design/methodology/approach
The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable fixed effects regressions with overlapping and non-overlapping bank size thresholds to control for the quiet life hypothesis (QLH). The QLH postulates that managers of large banks will use their privileges for private gains at the expense of making financial services more accessible to the general public. Financial access is measured with loan price and loan quantity whereas information asymmetry is implicit in the activities of public credit registries and private credit bureaus.

Findings
The findings with non-overlapping thresholds are broadly consistent with those that are conditional on overlapping thresholds. First, public credit registries have a decreasing effect on the price of loans with the magnitude of reduction comparable across all bank size thresholds. Second, both public credit registries and private credit bureaus enhance the quantity of loans. Third, compared with public credit registries, private credit bureaus have a greater influence in increasing financial access because they have a significantly higher favorable effect on the quantity and price of loans Fourth, the QLH is not apparent because large banks are not associated with lower levels of financial access compared to small banks.

Originality/value
Studies of public credit registries and private credit bureaus in Africa are sparse. This is one of the few to assess linkages between bank size, information asymmetry and financial access.},
keywords = {Bank size, Financial access, Information Sharing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}