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The impact of mobile money adoption on firm innovation
Using firm-level survey data for 16 Sub-Saharan African countries, we find evidence that mobile money adoption increases firms’ innovation. Further analysis shows that mobile money fosters innovation by improving firms’ liquidity through greater access to trade credit and bank loans. Our findings suggest that policy measures to stimulate innovation in developing countries could focus on incentivizing firms to adopt mobile money.
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Many economists today are concerned by the proliferation of journals and the concomitant labyrinth of research to be conquered in order to reach the specific information they require. To combat this tendency, Economics Letters has been conceived and designed outside the realm of the traditional economics journal. As a Letters Journal, it consists of concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.