| List of Contributors | vii |
| Part I: An Overview | |
| Chapter 1: An Overview of Fintech, Pandemic and the Financial System: Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Suk-Joong Kim | 3 |
| 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 Pisany | 13 |
| Chapter 3: Digital Financial Inclusion: Its Role in Mitigating GDP Losses During the Pandemic | |
| Chen Zheng and Zhiyue Sun | 37 |
| Chapter 4: The Role of Fintech in the Paycheck Protection Program | |
| Blake Rayfield, Hasib Ahmed, Nicolas Duvernois and Lois Rayfield | 63 |
| 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 Karaman | 77 |
| Part III: Cryptocurrency and the Financial System | |
| Chapter 6: Cryptocurrencies Meet Equities: Risk Factors and Asset-pricing Relationships | |
| Victoria Dobrynskaya and Mikhail Dubrovskiy | 95 |
| 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. Schneider | 113 |
| Chapter 8: International Financial Regulation of Cryptoassets and Asset-backed Tokens | |
| Sylvia Gottschalk | 145 |
| 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 Coulter | 201 |
| Chapter 11: The Digital Euro From a Geopolitical Perspective: Will Europe Lag Behind? | |
| Philipp Sandner and Jonas Gross | 223 |
| 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 Li | 243 |
| Chapter 13: Does Finance Benefit Society? Financial Sector Size and Labor Market Performance | |
| Marc Steffen Rapp and Iuliia A. Udoieva | 273 |
| Chapter 14: On the Effectiveness of Capital Controls: A Synthetic Control Method Approach | |
| Meng-Ting Chen and Richard J. Nugent III | 297 |
| Chapter 15: Determinants in the Development of Financial Centers: Evolution Around the World | |
| Giang Phung, Ha Truong and Hai Hong Trinh | 337 |
| Index | 363 |
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