List of Contributorsvii
Part I: An Overview
Chapter 1: An Overview of Fintech, Pandemic and the Financial System: Challenges and Opportunities 
Suk-Joong Kim3
Part II: Fintech and Pandemic
Chapter 2: Banks’ Patenting as an Answer to Emerging Fintech and Bigtech Competition: A Cross-country Empirical Study 
Oskar Kowalewski and Paweł Pisany13
Chapter 3: Digital Financial Inclusion: Its Role in Mitigating GDP Losses During the Pandemic 
Chen Zheng and Zhiyue Sun37
Chapter 4: The Role of Fintech in the Paycheck Protection Program 
Blake Rayfield, Hasib Ahmed, Nicolas Duvernois and Lois Rayfield63
Chapter 5: Gender Gap in Consumer Loan Performance: Evidence From Fintech Lending in an Emerging Economy 
Tanseli Savaser, Murat Tiniç, Gunseli Tumer-Alkan and Hakki Deniz Karaman77
Part III: Cryptocurrency and the Financial System
Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies Meet Equities: Risk Factors and Asset-pricing Relationships 
Victoria Dobrynskaya and Mikhail Dubrovskiy95
Chapter 7: Got Crypto? Evidence from Markowitz, Kataoka, and Conditional Value-at-Risk Models 
Lanqing Du, Jinwook Lee, Namjong Kim, Paul Moon Sub Choi and Matthew J. Schneider113
Chapter 8: International Financial Regulation of Cryptoassets and Asset-backed Tokens 
Sylvia Gottschalk145
Part IV: Central Bank Digital Currency
Chapter 9: Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Motivation 
Bert Van Roosebeke and Ryan Defina185
Chapter 10: A Review of the Proposed Bank of England’s “Retail” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as a Cryptocurrency Competitor 
Kelly-Ann Coulter201
Chapter 11: The Digital Euro From a Geopolitical Perspective: Will Europe Lag Behind? 
Philipp Sandner and Jonas Gross223
Part V: Economy and the Financial System
Chapter 12: The Journey of an Exchange Traded Fund: Becoming a Unicorn or Zombie 
Fei Gao and Bingqiao Li243
Chapter 13: Does Finance Benefit Society? Financial Sector Size and Labor Market Performance 
Marc Steffen Rapp and Iuliia A. Udoieva273
Chapter 14: On the Effectiveness of Capital Controls: A Synthetic Control Method Approach 
Meng-Ting Chen and Richard J. Nugent III297
Chapter 15: Determinants in the Development of Financial Centers: Evolution Around the World 
Giang Phung, Ha Truong and Hai Hong Trinh337
Index363

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