This study examines the effect of FinTech on economic performance for a panel of 31 provinces in mainland China between 2012 and 2019. The digital financial index compiled by Peking University is used to measure FinTech development. Besides ordinary least squares, we implement instrumental...

Over the last twenty years, the Spanish banking industry has been deeply reshaped in several respects. One of the features that has allowed for it has been the geographic expansion of most savings banks, which could not enter other markets different from their natural market before 1989. Since...

Economic performance in Spanish provinces has led to a considerable improvement in standard of living of their populations. Intense capital accumulation since the 1950s played a key roll in this process. Provincial inequalities may increase or decrease as a result of this growth pattern. This...