Is information diffusion a threat to market power for financial access? Insights from the African banking industry

Simplice Asongu, Michael Batuo, Jacinta Nwachukwu () and Vanessa Tchamyou ()

Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 2018, vol. 45, issue C, 88-104

Abstract: This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001–2011. First, from the Generalised Method of Moments results, a mobile phone penetration rate of 54.29, rising to 57 per 100 people are predicted to neutralise the adverse effect of market power on the average loan price and quantity respectively. Second, from the Quantile Regressions, mobile phone penetration rates of 56.20, 52.04 and 42.76 per 100 people is needed to nullify the negative effect of market power on loan quantity at the 10th decile, 25th quartile and 90th decile respectively. Third, a considerably lower internet penetration rate of 9.49 per 100 people is required to counteract the negative impact of market power on loan quantity at the 90th decile. Policy implications are discussed.

Keywords: Financial access; Market power; Information asymmetry; ICT; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 G29 L96 O40 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mulfin.2018.04.005

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