02345cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF020938 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513545677 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Delechat, Corinne. Drivers of Financial Access : the Role of Macroprudential Policies / Corinne Delechat, Lama Kiyasseh, Margaux MacDonald, Rui Xu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (41 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This study analyzes the drivers of the use of formal vs. informal financial services in emerging and developing countries using the 2017 Global FINDEX data. In particular, we investigate whether individuals' choice of financial services correlates with macro-financial and macro-structural policies and conditions, in addition to individual and country characteristics. We start our analysis on middle and low-income countries, and then zoom in on sub-Saharan Africa, currently the region that most relies on informal financial services, and which has the largest uptake of mobile banking. We find robust evidence of an association between macroprudential policies and individuals' choice of financial access after controlling for personal and country-level characteristics. In particular, macroprudential policies aimed at controlling credit supply seem to be associated with greater resort to informal financial services compared with formal, bank-based access. This highlights the importance for central bankers and financial sector regulators to consider the potential spillovers of monetary policy and financial stability measures on financial inclusion. Mode of access: Internet Kiyasseh, Lama. MacDonald, Margaux. Xu, Rui. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/074 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/074/001.2020.issue-074-en.xml IMF e-Library