Fintech, Pandemic, and the Financial System

Part I: An Overview

Chapter 1. An overview of fintech, pandemic and the financial system: Challenges and opportunities; Suk-Joong Kim

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 Pawel Pisany

Chapter 3. Digital financial inclusion: its role in mitigating GDP losses during the pandemic; Chen Zheng and Zhiyue Sun

Chapter 4. The role fintech in the PPP Program; Blake Rayfield, Hasib Ahmed, Nicolas Duvernois, and Lois Rayfield

Chapter 5. Gender gap in consumer loan performance: Evidence from fintech lending in an emerging economy; Tanseli Savaser, Murat Tinic, Gunseli Tumer-Alkan, and Hakki Deniz Karaman

Part III: Cryptocurrency and the Financial System

Chapter 6. Cryptocurrencies meet equities: Risk factors and asset pricing relationships; Victoria Dobrynskaya and Mikhail Dubrovskiy

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

Chapter 8. International financial regulation of cryptoassets and Asset-Backed Tokens; Sylvia Gottschalk

Part IV: Central Bank Digital Currency

Chapter 9. Central bank digital currencies: The motivation; Bert Van Roosebeke and Ryan Defina

Chapter 10. A review of the proposed Bank of England's 'Retail' central bank digital currency as a cryptocurrency competitor; Kelly-Ann Coulter

Chapter 11. The digital euro from a geopolitical perspective: Will Europe lag behind?; Philipp Sandner and Jonas Gross

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

Chapter 13. Does finance benefit society? Financial sector size and labour market performance; Marc Steffen Rapp and Iuliia Udoieva

Chapter 14. On the effectiveness of capital controls: A synthetic control method approach; Meng-Ting Chen and Richard J Nugent III

Chapter 15. Determinants in the development of financial centers: Evolution around the world; Giang Phung, Ha Truong, and Hai Hong Trinh