Ang, James.B and Kumar, Sanjesh (2014) Financial development and barriers to the cross - border diffusion of financial innovation. Journal of Banking & Finance, 39 (C). pp. 43-56. ISSN 0378-4266
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This paper explores the determinants of financial development by focusing on the role played by barriers to the diffusion of financial technology. These barriers are measured using human genetic distance from the technology frontier. The results based on cross-sectional data for 123 countries suggest that genetic distance to the global frontier has an economically and statistically significant effect on financial development, in that countries that are genetically far from the technology leader tend to have lower levels of financial development. Genetic distance is found to have the largest effect, even after controlling for other determinants of financial development established in the literature. These findings indicate that cultural barriers to the diffusion of financial technology across borders impact financial development by influencing the follower countries’ ability to adopt and adapt innovations from the frontier.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Additional Information: | Restricted Access by Publisher |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) > School of Economics |
| Depositing User: | Sanjesh Kumar |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2014 23:32 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2016 00:49 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/7332 |
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