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Too costly to make a difference: An examination on the relationship between online financing and economic growth

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  • Jiapin Deng
  • Yanchu Liu
  • Wenyue Xiao

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While facilitating people's access to finance and promoting financial coverage, online financing activities involve high capital costs that suppress economic growth. Using 282 Chinese cities during 2011–2020 as the sample, we examine the relationship between online financing and economic growth. Exploiting a variety of models, we find that online financing activities do not have significant effects on economic growth. Further evidence shows that the insignificant relationship between online financing and economic growth also exists in cities with less developed formal financial systems. Our analysis based on the context where borrowers and lenders do not know each other offline implies that the technology intended to promote financial coverage, if not reducing information asymmetry and hence the cost incurred in financial transactions, does not necessarily lead to desirable economic and social outcomes.

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  • Jiapin Deng & Yanchu Liu & Wenyue Xiao, 2025. "Too costly to make a difference: An examination on the relationship between online financing and economic growth," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(1), pages 904-924, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:ijfiec:v:30:y:2025:i:1:p:904-924
    DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.2953
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