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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Dec 2022

Crowdsourcing Peer Information to Change Spending Behavior

Michael WEBER, Francesco DACUNTO, Alberto G. ROSSI
We isolate and quantify the information channel of peer effects using a unique consumption setting that by construction excludes any scope for common shocks or social pressure—a transaction-level panel dataset of spending paired with crowdsourced information about the spending of anonymous “peer...
Keywords: Social Learning, Beliefs and Expectations, FinTech, Robo-advising, Social Finance, Information Economics, Household Finance
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Apr 2022

Blockchain without Crypto? Linking On-Chain Data Growth to Firm Fundamentals and Stock Returns

Lin William CONG, Ran CHANG
Despite the explosive growth of cryptocurrencies, whether the underlying technology adds significant value and will thus sustain broad adoption remains unclear. Using proprietary data on firm-level blockchain records from 2015 to 2021, we conduct the first large-sample study linking blockchains to f...
Keywords: Alternative Data, Blockchain, Digitization, Disclosure, Nowcasting
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Feb 2023

Bank Competition amid Digital Disruption: Implications for Financial Inclusion

Yang (Gloria) YU, Erica Xuewei JIANG, Jinyuan ZHANG
This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets. However, as digital customers shift from branches to digital servic...
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Dec 2022

Are Foreign Investors Informed? Trading Experiences of Foreign Investors in China

Xiaoyan ZHANG, Donghui SHI, Christian T. LUNDBLAD, Zijian ZHANG
Using a proprietary dataset from 2016 to 2019, we find that order flows from foreign investors, facilitated by regulatory liberalization through several channels, present strong predictive power for future stock returns in the Chinese market. Most surprisingly, foreign investors possess the ability ...
Keywords: Foreign investors, the Chinese stock market, public information, market liberalization
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Nov 2021

Angry Borrowers: Negative Reciprocity in a Financial Market

Li LIAO, Zhengwei WANG, Jun YANG, Congyi ZHOU, Hongjun YAN
We examine the consequences of an intrusive debt-collection tactic that targets delinquent borrowers’ social circles. Our identification strategy relies on the fact that some of the delinquent loans are not worked on due to collection agents’ excessive workload. We show that this tactic backfire...
Keywords: Behavioral finance, Reciprocity, Privacy Infringement, Social Pressure
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