Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.001
Hicham Sadok , Zakaria Elouaourti
Although digital payment methods are designed to lessen dependence on cash, its usage has paradoxically surged in many countries during times of economic uncertainty. This study examines whether financial literacy—both basic and advanced—reduces the likelihood of reverting to cash among youth during stressful times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the 2022 PISA Financial Literacy module (covering over 98,000 adolescents across 79 education systems) and employing a Logit model, we construct two novel indices of financial literacy. Our analysis shows that higher financial literacy significantly increases the likelihood of choosing mobile payments over cash, even during periods of systemic uncertainty. Additionally, students living in urban areas, particularly large cities, are more inclined to use digital payments, while attendance at public schools is associated with lower adoption rates of these methods. The findings also reveal important gender and parental education effects, underscoring the need for inclusive financial education. This study highlights financial literacy as a key factor in promoting the adoption of resilient digital payments among young people.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.004
Doğan Başar , Halit Keskin , Emel Esen , Abdullah Kürşat Merter , Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu
This study explores how financial technology (FinTech) and the level of financial literacy come together to shape savings behavior across 12 countries, spanning advanced, fast-developing, and emerging economies. Based on a large-scale survey of over 30,000 individuals, we employed a multi-level analytical approach that accounts for differences between individuals and across regions and national contexts. The findings revealed a consistent pattern: individuals who actively use FinTech tools tend to save more, particularly when supported by robust financial literacy. In fact, financial literacy played a crucial role in unlocking the full potential of digital tools, acting as a threshold condition that enhances their impact. Although urban areas generally showed higher savings rates, we found that FinTech adoption had an even stronger effect in rural areas—provided there was reliable digital infrastructure to support it. At the national level, factors like income levels, regulatory environments, and cultural traits influenced how effectively FinTech fosters better financial habits. These findings suggest that policies promoting financial education, strengthening digital infrastructure, and tailor regulations to local contexts can significantly improve savings behavior. Tailoring these efforts to a country's development stage and cultural context is key to maximizing their impact.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.007
Aslı Togan , Murat Tiniç , Talha Cesim Giray
We examine whether training individuals about the riskiness of financial products changes their risk perception in making financial decisions. Conducting a nationwide survey in Türkiye, we first map individuals’ use of regulated and unregulated financial products in borrowing, saving, and investing. We next train a randomly selected sample of people in three regions where use of unregulated or risky products is high and test their financial preferences by asking them to take the survey after the training. With controls for observable characteristics, our results suggest that training on the riskiness of financial products helps improve individuals' risk perception, and this improvement seems to motivate them to prefer regulated financial products and to seeking professional advice about borrowing, saving, and investment.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.002
Michael Pedersen , Karla Pérez
This study examines how financial literacy influences the formation of household inflation expectations in response to central bank communication. Using sentiment analysis of FOMC statements and microdata from the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations, our analysis finds that individuals with higher financial literacy, particularly strong numeracy, respond more moderately to shifts in monetary policy tone. While hawkish statements are generally associated with higher inflation expectations and dovish statements with lower expectations, consistent with a Fed information effect, this relationship is significantly less pronounced among financially literate respondents. Our results suggest that numeracy, rather than general financial knowledge, explains differences in responsiveness. Our findings emphasize the role of cognitive ability in shaping how individuals interpret monetary policy signals. From a policy perspective, promoting numeracy through financial education may improve expectation formation and support more effective transmission of monetary policy.
{"title":"Financial literacy and the impact of central bank communication on consumer inflation expectations","authors":"Michael Pedersen , Karla Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how financial literacy influences the formation of household inflation expectations in response to central bank communication. Using sentiment analysis of FOMC statements and microdata from the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations, our analysis finds that individuals with higher financial literacy, particularly strong numeracy, respond more moderately to shifts in monetary policy tone. While hawkish statements are generally associated with higher inflation expectations and dovish statements with lower expectations, consistent with a Fed information effect, this relationship is significantly less pronounced among financially literate respondents. Our results suggest that numeracy, rather than general financial knowledge, explains differences in responsiveness. Our findings emphasize the role of cognitive ability in shaping how individuals interpret monetary policy signals. From a policy perspective, promoting numeracy through financial education may improve expectation formation and support more effective transmission of monetary policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 53-58"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145289745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study investigates the influence of financial literacy on the financial behavior of female urban workers in India, with a focus on the mediating role of risk perception and the use of digital financial services (DFS). Grounded in the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework, financial literacy is conceptualized as a cognitive stimulus that shapes people's perceptions of risk and confidence in engaging in digital platforms, which in turn translate into various financial behaviors. We administered a structured questionnaire to 564 female workers in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) using purposive and snowball sampling and analyzed the data using a hybrid approach that combined partial least squares–structural equation model (PLS-SEM) and artificial neural networks (ANN). Our results confirm that financial literacy increases financial behavior both directly and indirectly through mediators such as risk perception and DFS use. This comprehensive multidimensional model contributes to the growing literature on financial literacy and offers actionable implications for creating targeted financial literacy and digital trust-building initiatives to foster women's financial empowerment in emerging economies.
{"title":"Decoding financial behaviour through cognitive and digital pathways: A hybrid SEM–ANN study among Indian working women","authors":"Rekha Pillai , Parul Kumar , Neha Kumar , Mosab I. Tabash","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the influence of financial literacy on the financial behavior of female urban workers in India, with a focus on the mediating role of risk perception and the use of digital financial services (DFS). Grounded in the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework, financial literacy is conceptualized as a cognitive stimulus that shapes people's perceptions of risk and confidence in engaging in digital platforms, which in turn translate into various financial behaviors. We administered a structured questionnaire to 564 female workers in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) using purposive and snowball sampling and analyzed the data using a hybrid approach that combined partial least squares–structural equation model (PLS-SEM) and artificial neural networks (ANN). Our results confirm that financial literacy increases financial behavior both directly and indirectly through mediators such as risk perception and DFS use. This comprehensive multidimensional model contributes to the growing literature on financial literacy and offers actionable implications for creating targeted financial literacy and digital trust-building initiatives to foster women's financial empowerment in emerging economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 87-100"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145289748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.009
Ece Kozol
This study investigates the macrolevel determinants of financial literacy across 143 countries using data from the 2014 S&P Global Financial Literacy Survey, complemented by indicators from the World Bank and Worldwide Governance Indicators. The empirical strategy employs multiple linear regression (OLS) with robust standard errors, supported by diagnostic tests, a generalized linear model (GLM) as an alternative specification, and quantile regression to capture distributional heterogeneity. The findings indicate that higher GDP per capita, greater educational attainment, broader internet access, and higher regulatory quality are significantly correlated with increased financial literacy, whereas inflation exhibits a negative relationship. Quantile regression results show that these effects are more pronounced in countries with lower baseline literacy levels, underscoring the disproportionate benefits of structural improvements in economically and educationally disadvantaged settings. These results highlight the importance of investing in education, digital infrastructure, and institutional quality as strategic levers to enhance financial capability at the national level.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.09.006
Rashed Jahangir , Gülfen Tuna , Hümeyra Koç , Muhammad Hassan Abbas
This study investigates the moderating role of financial literacy in the relationship between investor sentiment and Bitcoin returns in the Eurozone context. Using monthly panel data for 15 Eurozone countries from 2012 to 2024, we focus on Bitcoin as a representative cryptocurrency alongside key macro-financial variables. A three-layered empirical approach is employed to capture long-run equilibrium relationships, country-specific short-run coefficients, and heterogeneous effects across the return distribution through pooled least squares, panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL), and quantile regression methods. The findings primarily reveal that investor sentiment has a significant positive impact on Bitcoin returns, and financial literacy strengthens the impact of sentiment on returns in the aggregate long run and the country-specific short run. This indicates that sentiment-induced effects on cryptocurrency return are significantly stronger in more financially literate environments. Short-run dynamics show rapid error correction of Bitcoin returns. The study's novel contribution is integrating financial literacy into the sentiment–returns nexus for the cryptocurrency market.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.011
Muhammad Umar
Education plays a vital role in development and adoption of new technologies, making financial education particularly important for the advancement and acceptance of financial innovations. This study explores the impact of financial literacy on the adoption of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), using data from 72 countries spanning 2010 to 2023. Findings from ordered logistic, ordered probit, logistic, probit, and ordinary least squares consistently reveal that higher levels of financial literacy significantly increase the likelihood of CBDC adoption. Notably, incorporating financial education into primary, secondary, and university curricula has a strong, positive impact on adopting a CBDC. Conversely, countries that have yet to implement financial literacy in public school curricula, but intend to, are currently less likely to adopt CBDCs. These results suggest that for countries planning to launch a CBDC, investment in financial literacy is critical step toward encouraging adoption.
{"title":"The role of financial literacy in accelerating the adoption of a central bank digital currency","authors":"Muhammad Umar","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Education plays a vital role in development and adoption of new technologies, making financial education particularly important for the advancement and acceptance of financial innovations. This study explores the impact of financial literacy on the adoption of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), using data from 72 countries spanning 2010 to 2023. Findings from ordered logistic, ordered probit, logistic, probit, and ordinary least squares consistently reveal that higher levels of financial literacy significantly increase the likelihood of CBDC adoption. Notably, incorporating financial education into primary, secondary, and university curricula has a strong, positive impact on adopting a CBDC. Conversely, countries that have yet to implement financial literacy in public school curricula, but intend to, are currently less likely to adopt CBDCs. These results suggest that for countries planning to launch a CBDC, investment in financial literacy is critical step toward encouraging adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145289605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.004
Muhammad S. Tahir
Using a large and reliable dataset from the European Union, this study aims to find if financial literacy overconfidence and poor financial behaviour are associated with loan-taking propensity, along with investigating the mediation of financial fragility. By employing probit regression, the findings indicate that both financial literacy overconfidence and poor financial behaviour are positively associated with loan-taking propensity. Other results posit that financial fragility is a strong mediator as it completely mediates the first path and partially mediates the second path. The findings remain consistent after conducting endogeneity checks. The results substantiate the arguments of the dual process theory by showing how heuristic-driven thinking (Type I) forms an overconfidence bias, leading to financial fragility and sub-optimal borrowing decisions. Overall, the results add to the growing literature on overconfidence, financial vulnerability, and debt accumulation. Finally, a range of theoretical and practical implications are discussed along with proposing future research directions.
{"title":"Financial literacy overconfidence, poor financial behaviour, and loan-taking propensity: The mediating role of financial fragility","authors":"Muhammad S. Tahir","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a large and reliable dataset from the European Union, this study aims to find if financial literacy overconfidence and poor financial behaviour are associated with loan-taking propensity, along with investigating the mediation of financial fragility. By employing probit regression, the findings indicate that both financial literacy overconfidence and poor financial behaviour are positively associated with loan-taking propensity. Other results posit that financial fragility is a strong mediator as it completely mediates the first path and partially mediates the second path. The findings remain consistent after conducting endogeneity checks. The results substantiate the arguments of the dual process theory by showing how heuristic-driven thinking (Type I) forms an overconfidence bias, leading to financial fragility and sub-optimal borrowing decisions. Overall, the results add to the growing literature on overconfidence, financial vulnerability, and debt accumulation. Finally, a range of theoretical and practical implications are discussed along with proposing future research directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 10-17"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145289606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.004
Metin İlbasmış , Hakan Altın , Büşra Yılmaz
This study examines the causal impact of financial literacy education on financially responsible behavior using a quasi-experimental design among 125 undergraduate students in Türkiye. The study compares outcomes between a treatment group that received structured financial literacy training and a control group that did not. The results show that even a brief educational intervention significantly enhances objective financial literacy and leads to more prudent financial behaviors, including budgeting, saving, purchasing insurance, and investment planning. By addressing endogeneity concerns and targeting individuals at a critical decision-making stage of life, this study provides empirical evidence of the effectiveness of financial education, offering valuable insights for policy development in emerging market contexts.
{"title":"Can financial literacy training improve financially responsible behavior? Experimental evidence from Turkish undergraduates","authors":"Metin İlbasmış , Hakan Altın , Büşra Yılmaz","doi":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bir.2025.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the causal impact of financial literacy education on financially responsible behavior using a quasi-experimental design among 125 undergraduate students in Türkiye. The study compares outcomes between a treatment group that received structured financial literacy training and a control group that did not. The results show that even a brief educational intervention significantly enhances objective financial literacy and leads to more prudent financial behaviors, including budgeting, saving, purchasing insurance, and investment planning. By addressing endogeneity concerns and targeting individuals at a critical decision-making stage of life, this study provides empirical evidence of the effectiveness of financial education, offering valuable insights for policy development in emerging market contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46690,"journal":{"name":"Borsa Istanbul Review","volume":"25 ","pages":"Pages 137-145"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145555340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}