2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Financial Innovation "Fintech": its function, risk, and institutional design
Project/Area Number |
20K20751
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Medium-sized Section 7:Economics, business administration, and related fields
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Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
Principal Investigator |
Fukuda Shin-ichi 東京大学, 大学院経済学研究科(経済学部), 教授 (00221531)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-07-30 – 2024-03-31
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Keywords | フィンテック / 情報通信技術 / 金融機関の機能 / 金融規制 / 金融システムの制度設計 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The financial industry is undergoing a period of major transformation, as rapid advances in information and communication technology have led to the emergence of a series of new financial services known as "fintech". This has called for a completely new framework to analyze how financial institutions would function and should be regulated from completely different perspectives which were not explored in the past. To constrct a new analytical framework, this research formed an economics research group and conducted theoretical and empirical analyses focusing on the following two themes: (1) new functions and risks of finance with the emergence of fintech, and (2) institutional design of a new financial system in conjunction with the expansion of fintech. This research also derived policy implications through exchanges of views with researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in other fields.
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Free Research Field |
金融
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
長い間、銀行などの金融機関は、決済、期間変換、情報生産、取引費用の節約、リスク分散などさまざまな面の機能を持つとことで、経済の資金の流れを効率的にする中心的な役割を果たしてきた。しかし、ITの急速な進歩によって、他業種の事業者が、より少ない費用で便利な金融サービスを提供する動きも生まれている。このため、「伝統的な金融機関」の分析をするだけでは、金融業の将来像を大きく見誤る可能性が高い。新しい金融サービスは、これまでになかったリスクを金融市場に生み出している。そうしたなか、金融業の機能や規制のあり方を、従来とは全く異なる視点に立って分析することは挑戦的研究としての意義は極めて大きいといえる。
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