Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105133 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5047
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We investigate the role of banks information policies in fostering the accumulation of financial knowledge. In Italy, banks belonging to the PattiChiari Consortium implement policies aimed at increasing transparency and procedural simplification, without offering services at lower cost with respect to other banks. We exploit this feature of the Italian banking system and show that these policies promote financial literacy. The increase in financial knowledge attributable to banks information policies significantly affects household financial assets. We use these policies as instruments to estimate the effect of financial literacy on financial assets, showing that it is significantly underestimated by OLS correlation.
Subjects: 
banks information policies
financial assets
financial literacy
instrumental variables
JEL: 
D14
G11
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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