Digital Finance and Commercial Banks' Risk
Nadia Mansour
What the paper says
China's digital financial growth has advanced rapidly, and the banking sector, which serves as the core of the real economy, is concerned about its capacity to resist the impacts of digital finance. The paper analyzes the impact of digital financing on commercial banking risk-taking via balance panel data from 2013 to 2022 from 160 Chinese banks. The results prove that the impact of digital finance on commercial banks' risk-taking and finds that firstly, in terms of the overall effect, digital finance has a dampening effect on commercial banks' risk-taking; in terms of the structural effect, the risk-dampening effect of the breadth of coverage is the strongest and the breadth of coverage and the depth of use play a significant role in the dampening of commercial banks' risk-taking.
2 citations
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.31 × 0.4 = 0.13 |
| M · momentum | 0.55 × 0.15 = 0.08 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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