Going Digital [electronic resource] : Credit Effects of Land Registry Computerization in India / Goyal, Aparajita
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010Description: 1 online resource (26 p.)Subject(s): Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress | Banks & Banking Reform | Commercial banks | Credit access | Currency | Debt Markets | Deeds | E-Business | Economic Theory & Research | Finance and Financial Sector Development | Financial market | Information technology | International bank | Land titling | Lenders | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | Market development | Mortgages | Private Sector Development | Property rights | Registry office | Registry offices | Registry reform | Registry systems | Reserve | Reserve bank | Settlement | Stamp dutyAdditional physical formats: Goyal, Aparajita.: Going Digital.Online resources: Click here to access online Abstract: Despite strong beliefs that property titling and registration will enhance credit access, empirical evidence in support of such effects remains scant. The gradual roll-out of computerization of land registry systems across Andhra Pradesh's 387 sub-registry offices allows us to combine quarterly administrative data on credit disbursed by all commercial banks for an eleven-year period (1997-2007) aggregated to the sub-registry office level with the date of shifting registration from manual to digital. Computerization had no credit effect in rural areas but led to increased credit-supply in urban ones. A marked increase of registered urban mortgages due to computerization supports the robustness of the result. At the same time, estimated impacts from reduction of the stamp duty are much larger, suggesting that, without further changes in the property rights system, impacts of computerization will remain marginal.Despite strong beliefs that property titling and registration will enhance credit access, empirical evidence in support of such effects remains scant. The gradual roll-out of computerization of land registry systems across Andhra Pradesh's 387 sub-registry offices allows us to combine quarterly administrative data on credit disbursed by all commercial banks for an eleven-year period (1997-2007) aggregated to the sub-registry office level with the date of shifting registration from manual to digital. Computerization had no credit effect in rural areas but led to increased credit-supply in urban ones. A marked increase of registered urban mortgages due to computerization supports the robustness of the result. At the same time, estimated impacts from reduction of the stamp duty are much larger, suggesting that, without further changes in the property rights system, impacts of computerization will remain marginal.
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