Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries [Dataset]

DOI

This paper is a first attempt at measuring financial sector outreach and investigating its determinants. First, we present new indicators of banking sector outreach across 99 countries, constructed from aggregate data provided by bank regulators. Second, we show that our indicators closely predict harder-to-collect micro-level statistics of household and firm use of banking services, and are associated with measures of firm financing obstacles in the expected way. Finally, we explore the association between our outreach indicators and standard determinants of financial sector depth. We find many similarities but also some differences in the determinants of outreach and depth.

DSA Proof. - Universe: The data was collected from bank regulators across 99 different countries.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/EMHU89
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/EMHU89
Provenance
Creator T. Beck; A. Demirgüç-Kunt; M. S. Martinez Peria
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor DataverseNL
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY-4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Miscellaneous data; Dataset
Format application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; application/vnd.ms-excel
Size 40355; 102400
Version 7.0
Discipline Business and Management; Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences