scholarly journals Access to Banking and the Role of Inequality and the Financial Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Caselli ◽  
Babak Somekh

Abstract We study access to banking and how it is related to banks’ rate of return on investments and the distribution of income. We develop our empirical framework through a theoretical supply-side model of bank deposit services with a consumer population heterogeneous in income. We use this model to show how decreases in the interest rate margin and higher income disparities lead to an increase in the proportion of unbanked. Using localized US household data from 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 we find strong empirical evidence for the predictions of the model. We then structurally estimate our model to estimate the value of having a checking account relative to alternative financial services and to quantify the effects of actual changes in the interest rate margin and the distribution of income that occurred in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Siti Mujibatun

<p align="justify"><em>Mudarabah, as an icon of commercial products in Shari'ah Economic,  factually proven toughness in facing  the financial crisis during this time. By placing the product mudarabah proportionally in the financial business institutions have a significant impact on economic sustainability in strengthening the real sector. Some of the benefits include Mudarabah product; has  a rate of return higher than the interest rate applicate on interest bank, based on “production–based” by  transactions based on real assets and not solely on the paperwork that are derivatives and free from elements of speculation. Mudarabah based on production. Therefore, the financial crisis can be minimized because the</em><em> b</em><em>alance sheet of company is stable relatively. To maintain it in the real sector, government support in the form of policies by strengthening the role of national banking intermediation in the financial and real sector investment is needed to minimize the level of unemployment.</em><em></em></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Bijan Bidabad ◽  
Abul Hassan

Dynamic structural behavior of depositor, bank and borrower and the role of banks in forming business cycle are investigated. We test the hypothesis that does banks behavior make oscillations in the economy through the interest rate. By dichotomizing banking activities into two markets of deposit and loan, we show that these two markets have non-synchronized structures, and this is why the money sector fluctuation starts. As a result, the fluctuation is transmitted to the real economy through saving and investment functions. Empirical results assert that in the USA, the banking system creates fluctuations in the money sector and real economy as well through short-term interest rates


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huw Macartney ◽  
David Howarth ◽  
Scott James

AbstractDespite much commentary in the media and the popular assumption that the banking industry exerts undue influence on government policy-making, the academic literature on the role of the banks since the 2008 financial crisis remains theoretically and empirically under-specified. In particular, we argue that different forms of financial power are often conflated, while favorable policy outcomes are too-readily assumed to be evidence of regulatory capture. In short, we still know relatively little about how bank influence varies over time and in different national contexts, the extent to which banking interests are unified or divided, and the conditions under which banks are capable of producing meaningful variation in policy outcomes. This article has three objectives: 1) to explain why the debate on bank influence matters; 2) to examine the evidence of bank influence since the international financial crisis; and 3) to set out a range of conceptual tools for thinking about bank power.


2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 955-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorra Ellouze

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to investigate the role of customers and employees in the buffer effect of CSR around the 2008 financial crisis in the European context.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of 323 European firms listed in STOXX Europe 600 Index, different models are estimated to test whether the effect of CSR ratings on firms' relationships with their customers and employees could be different during the 2008 financial crisis relative to the pre-crisis and post-crisis periods.FindingsThe paper shows that CSR rating has a significantly negative impact on firms' accounts receivable and a significantly positive effect on employee productivity during the crisis period (from 2007 to 2009). However, there is no significant effect of CSR rating during the non-crisis periods. These results suggest that during negative events, customers are willing to continue supporting high-CSR firms by paying their invoices faster. Furthermore, these firms benefit from higher productivity of their employees who are willing to work harder in periods of uncertainty.Research limitations/implicationsFirms should invest in CSR practices to maintain strong and cooperative relationships with their customers and employees. Also, investors should choose firms engaging in more social capital. Moreover, policymakers should encourage implementing CSR practices which act as an insurance-like protection in times of negative events.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the previous studies by investigating whether the cooperative role of customers and employees can explain the buffer role of CSR around the crisis. Furthermore, it considers companies located in several European countries for a long period (from 2004 to 2012) to compare periods of crisis and non-crisis.


1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Samuelson

Positive Theory of Capital (1889) is a classic which contains Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's 1889 correct vision of how the interest rate might be determined by the interplay of systematic time preference (“impatience”) and time-phased technology's productivity. But he was not quite able to formulate his intuitive vision in terms that would satisfy today's persnickety jury of theorists. And indeed the classic Rate of Interest (1907) by his younger contemporary, Irving Fisher, seemed to be disagreeing with Böhm-Bawerk's treatment of time's net productivity; but, as Fisher was unable to make clear until 1930, he was objecting only to Böhm-Bawerk's formulation of the role of productivity in interest determination. In point of fact, Fisher, who was so long identified (wrongly, but understandably) as an “impatience theorist,” considered his own main contribution to interest theory to be his clarification of how the technological superiority of time-consuming processes cooperated in the determination of the equilibrium interest rate.


ALQALAM ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
ZAINI IBRAHIM

In many economic literatures, economy is divided into two sectors, real sector which covers seroice market and goods market, and monetary sector which consists of money market and equity market. In a part of economic system, monetary that runs in a country will affect the economic rate. Monetary economy can be applied in a polity, called monetary policy. In a conventional discussion, a monetary policy is run in order to reach the increase of national income, to stabilize market price, and to control the inflation rate. To get the goal of that macro-economy, the interest rate is used, in which it becomes the weakness of conventional monetary system. The use of interest rate, furthermore, has caused the economic crisis, indeed global financial crisis. In term of new economic system needs, Islamic monetary system riflers a solution to overcome financial crisis. The riffered system is asset based transaction, free of interest, avoidance of transactions containing speculation (maisir) and uncertainty (gharar). Moreover, it also uses stable curencies, i.e. dinar and dirham. Keyword: Monetary system, interest rate, fiat monry, dinar, dirham.


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Philippe Burger ◽  
Helvi Fillipus ◽  
Innocent Molalapata

Using SVAR analysis, this paper finds what Sims calls a ‘price puzzle’, i.e. a case where CPI increases after a positive interest rate shock. The SVAR analysis controls for various monetary transmission mechanisms, including one based on the South African dominance hypothesis that links South African monetary policy to inflation in Botswana and Namibia. The paper follows Castelnuovo and Surico and interprets the price puzzle as a symptom of an indeterminate monetary policy. Subsequently the paper explores the finding of indeterminate monetary policy further by using an unstructured VAR to estimate the monetary reaction functions of Botswana and Namibia. These results also point to the presence of an indeterminate monetary policy. Lastly, both the SVAR and the unstructured VAR estimated for the monetary reaction function indicate the importance of the exchange rate, and not the interest rate, as a determinant of inflation in both Botswana and Namibia


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Hua Siong Wong

Financial institutions licensed which were established under the Financial Services Act 2013 and the Moneylenders Act 1951 in Malaysia will provide financial loans at the interest rate charged permitted by-laws and guidelines from the Central Bank of Malaysia to borrowers. However, not all borrowers can afford to pay high and onerous interest rates. Therefore, the law in Malaysia allows for friendly loans, i.e. the lender will provide financial loans assistance to the borrower from of interest or with minimal interest rate. This study will focus on the extent to which the legal issues of the practice of friendly loans in Malaysia and whether the provisions of current laws and policies can protect the interests of both lenders and recipients of friendly loans. This study is qualitative in nature and involves library research. The results of this study will look at aspects of legal issues in order to protect the interests of both lenders and recipients of friendly loans. In fact, Malaysia could also consider creating a special law on friendly loans and regulated by the authorities.


IQTISHODUNA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Hasannudin Nursalim Putra ◽  
Irnin Miladyan Aryq ◽  
Lilik Jazilatul Mufidah

Inflationary pressures that often time there was a can shake economy the state, to face inflationarypressures one of the efforts of the country to control the inflation is by issuing policy interest rate by theIndonesia bank as central financial policy monetary and fiscal. The banks have the role of to control the rateinflation. The interest rate that set by the bank will affect the level distribution credit of bank conventional andfinancing of sharia bank. For that researchers want to see the influence of direct and indirect interest rates tocredit and financingand inflation as variable intervening. The kind of research is quantitative with the sampleof six general Sharia Bank and the generalconventional bank in Indonesia period 2011 until 2015 taken withpurposive sampling. Themethod is path analysis. Based onsignificant test, the first significant test has resultthat interest rates significant of inflation. Thesecond significant testhas results that the interest rate notsignificant on the distribution credit and financing. The third significant test has result that inflation is notsignificant to distribution credit and financing. So this is can concluded that inflation will not be variableintervening for the distribution credit and financing.


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