2012-05: Financial literacy learning in emerging markets: Agent-based modeling (Working paper)
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Akimov, Alexandr
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Financial literacy is a critical determinant of household well-being. We use an agent-based modelling approach to analyse the impacts of financial literacy programs delivered from sources of varying degrees of credibility through a social network in emerging economies. The simulation results indicate that the social networks of emerging markets rely heavily on source credibility to grow and sustain financial literacy levels. The results illustrate that financial education programs undertaken without regard for the context of the key social networks or source credibility neglect a main source of information flow and validation which can lead to program failure.
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Copyright © 2010 by author(s). No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior permission of the author(s).
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C53 - Forecasting Methods; Simulation Methods
I22 - Educational Finance
Financial literacy
agent-based modelling
emerging markets
social networks
media.