Prelims
Fintech, Pandemic, and the Financial System: Challenges and Opportunities
ISBN: 978-1-80262-948-4, eISBN: 978-1-80262-947-7
ISSN: 1569-3767
Publication date: 17 January 2023
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(2023), "Prelims", Kim, S.-J. (Ed.) Fintech, Pandemic, and the Financial System: Challenges and Opportunities (International Finance Review, Vol. 22), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-viii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1569-376720220000022017
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FINTECH, PANDEMIC, AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE REVIEW
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE REVIEW - VOLUME 22
FINTECH, PANDEMIC, AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
EDITED BY
SUK-JOONG KIM
The University of Sydney, Australia
United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| List of Contributors | vii |
| Part I: An Overview | |
| Chapter 1: An Overview of Fintech, Pandemic and the Financial System: Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Suk-Joong Kim | 3 |
| Part II: Fintech and Pandemic | |
| Chapter 2: Banks’ Patenting as an Answer to Emerging Fintech and Bigtech Competition: A Cross-country Empirical Study | |
| Oskar Kowalewski and Paweł Pisany | 13 |
| Chapter 3: Digital Financial Inclusion: Its Role in Mitigating GDP Losses During the Pandemic | |
| Chen Zheng and Zhiyue Sun | 37 |
| Chapter 4: The Role of Fintech in the Paycheck Protection Program | |
| Blake Rayfield, Hasib Ahmed, Nicolas Duvernois and Lois Rayfield | 63 |
| Chapter 5: Gender Gap in Consumer Loan Performance: Evidence From Fintech Lending in an Emerging Economy | |
| Tanseli Savaser, Murat Tiniç, Gunseli Tumer-Alkan and Hakki Deniz Karaman | 77 |
| Part III: Cryptocurrency and the Financial System | |
| Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies Meet Equities: Risk Factors and Asset-pricing Relationships | |
| Victoria Dobrynskaya and Mikhail Dubrovskiy | 95 |
| Chapter 7: Got Crypto? Evidence from Markowitz, Kataoka, and Conditional Value-at-Risk Models | |
| Lanqing Du, Jinwook Lee, Namjong Kim, Paul Moon Sub Choi and Matthew J. Schneider | 113 |
| Chapter 8: International Financial Regulation of Cryptoassets and Asset-backed Tokens | |
| Sylvia Gottschalk | 145 |
| Part IV: Central Bank Digital Currency | |
| Chapter 9: Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Motivation | |
| Bert Van Roosebeke and Ryan Defina185 | |
| Chapter 10: A Review of the Proposed Bank of England’s “Retail” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as a Cryptocurrency Competitor | |
| Kelly-Ann Coulter | 201 |
| Chapter 11: The Digital Euro From a Geopolitical Perspective: Will Europe Lag Behind? | |
| Philipp Sandner and Jonas Gross | 223 |
| Part V: Economy and the Financial System | |
| Chapter 12: The Journey of an Exchange Traded Fund: Becoming a Unicorn or Zombie | |
| Fei Gao and Bingqiao Li | 243 |
| Chapter 13: Does Finance Benefit Society? Financial Sector Size and Labor Market Performance | |
| Marc Steffen Rapp and Iuliia A. Udoieva | 273 |
| Chapter 14: On the Effectiveness of Capital Controls: A Synthetic Control Method Approach | |
| Meng-Ting Chen and Richard J. Nugent III | 297 |
| Chapter 15: Determinants in the Development of Financial Centers: Evolution Around the World | |
| Giang Phung, Ha Truong and Hai Hong Trinh | 337 |
| Index | 363 |
List of Contributors
| Hasib Ahmed | Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA |
| Meng-Ting Chen | Soochow University, Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Paul Moon Sub Choi | College of Business Administration, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea |
| Kelly-Ann Coulter | School of Management, University College London, London, UK |
| Ryan Defina | International Association of Deposit Insurers, Basel, Switzerland |
| Victoria Dobrynskaya | HSE University, School of Finance, Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Lanqing Du | Decision Sciences and MIS, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, PA, USA |
| Mikhail Dubrovskiy | HSE University, School of Finance, Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Nicolas Duvernois | University of New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Fei Gao | Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore |
| Sylvia Gottschalk | Middlesex University Business School, Hendon, UK |
| Jonas Gross | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Hakki Deniz Karaman | Kadir Has University, Department of International Trade and Finance, Fatih Istanbul, Turkey |
| Namjong Kim | Korea Institute of Finance, Seoul, Korea |
| Suk-Joong Kim | The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Oskar Kowalewski | IESEG School of Management, Lille, France |
| Jinwook Lee | Decision Sciences and MIS, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, PA, USA |
| Bingqiao Li | Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore |
| Richard J. Nugent III | Hydrologic Engineering Center, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, CA, USA |
| Giang Phung | ISC Paris Business School, Paris, France |
| Paweł Pisany | Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
| Marc Steffen Rapp | School of Business and Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany |
| Blake Rayfield | WA Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA |
| Lois Rayfield | WA Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA |
| Philipp Sandner | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Tanseli Savaser | Vassar College, Department of Economics, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA |
| Matthew J. Schneider | Decision Sciences and MIS, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Zhiyue Sun | School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
| Murat Tiniç | Kadir Has University, Department of International Trade and Finance, Fatih Istanbul, Turkey |
| Hai Hong Trinh | School of Economics and Finance, Massey Business School, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| Ha Truong | Department of Banking and Finance, Monash Business School, Monash University, Victoria, Australia |
| Gunseli Tumer-Alkan | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Finance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Iuliia A. Udoieva | School of Business and Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany |
| Bert Van Roosebeke | International Association of Deposit Insurers, Basel, Switzerland |
| Chen Zheng | School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
- Prelims
- Part I: An Overview
- Chapter 1: An Overview of Fintech, Pandemic and the Financial System: Challenges and Opportunities
- Part II: Fintech and Pandemic
- Chapter 2: Banks’ Patenting as an Answer to Emerging Fintech and Bigtech Competition: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
- Chapter 3: Digital Financial Inclusion: Its Role in Mitigating GDP Losses During the Pandemic
- Chapter 4: The Role of FinTech in the Paycheck Protection Program
- Chapter 5: Gender Gap in Consumer Loan Performance: Evidence from Fintech Lending in an Emerging Economy
- Part III: Cryptocurrency and the Financial System
- Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies Meet Equities: Risk Factors and Asset-pricing Relationships
- Chapter 7: Got Crypto? Evidence from Markowitz, Kataoka, and Conditional Value-at-Risk Models
- Chapter 8: International Financial Regulation of Cryptoassets and Asset-Backed Tokens
- Part IV: Central Bank Digital Currency
- Chapter 9: Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Motivation
- Chapter 10: A Review of the Proposed Bank of England’s “Retail” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as a Cryptocurrency Competitor
- Chapter 11: The Digital Euro From a Geopolitical Perspective: Will Europe Lag Behind?
- Part V: Economy and the Financial System
- Chapter 12: The Journey of an Exchange Traded Fund: Becoming a Unicorn or Zombie
- Chapter 13: Does Finance Benefit Society? Financial Sector Size and Labor Market Performance
- Chapter 14: On the Effectiveness of Capital Controls: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
- Chapter 15: Determinants in the Development of Financial Centers: Evolution Around the World
- Index