Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173618 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/17/012
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The purpose of this study is to assess how information sharing offices affect loan price and quantity in the African banking industry. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 162 banks in 42 countries for the period 2001-2011. From the Generalised Method of Moments, public credit registries decrease loan price. With instrumental Quantile Regressions, two main findings are established. Public credit registries consistently decrease the price of loans whereas private credit bureaus consistently have the opposite effect. Public credit registries increase loan quantity in bottom quintiles (or banks associated with lower loan quantities) while private credit bureaus increase loan quantity in top quintiles (or banks associated with higher loan quantities).
Subjects: 
Information Asymmetry
Financial Access
Africa
JEL: 
G20
G29
O16
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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