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    Fınancıalınclusıon In Turkey: Evıdence From Indıvıduallevel Data
    (2019) Özşuca, Ekin
    Using individual level data from the World Bank Global Findex for 2017, this study analyzes the levelof financial inclusion and explores its main determinants in Turkey. In particular, it explores how individualcharacteristics (i.e. gender, age, income, education) are associated with the usage of formal financial servicesand impinge on the perceived barriers to account ownership among financially excluded individuals in Turkey.The results of the study indicate that being man, older, richer and more educated increases the likelihood ofhaving a formal account and formal saving. Moreover, mobile banking is found to be driven by identicalindividual characteristics with that of other traditional formal financial services usage. As regards with the mainobstacles for not having a formal account, each one of the individual attributes seems to be significant inexplaining different voluntary and involuntary self-reported barriers behind financial exclusion. The findingsare of remarkable importance for designing policies to promote financial inclusion in Turkey.
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    Nexus between Foreign Banks and and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from the Transition Economies
    (2019) Özşuca, Ekin
    This paper examines empirically the impact of foreign banks on access and use of financial services for a panel of transition economies over the period 2004-2017. Transition economies provide rich evidence for analyzing this relationship given the predominance of foreign banks in their banking systems. The results reveal that foreign bank presence is positively associated with banking sector outreach indicators, such as ATM and branch penetration, after controlling for several macroeconomic, institutional and financial country-specific factors, however foreign bank entry is found to have no impact on the use of financial services, as measured by borrowing per capita. Results from low and high foreign bank threshold subsamples provide further evidence that foreign bank penetration effects on financial inclusion do not vary by thresholds
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    Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion: Evidence From Mena
    (Univ Oviedo, 2019) Ozsuca, Ekin Ayse
    This study aims to analyze the gender dimension of financial inclusion in MENA countries. Using the World Bank's 2017 Global Findex Database, it explores the underlying factors of gender differences in formal financial services usage via Fairlie decomposition method. The findings of the study indicate that a significant portion of the disparity in financial inclusion is attributable to employment, while age and tertiary education are also found as contributing factors to the financial inclusion gap. Another notable finding is that upper income quintiles contribute positively to the gender gap, indeed to a greater extent compared to lower income groups.