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The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling … for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence … the black box and conditioning the variance of growth shocks on several country characteristics. Natural resource …
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and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …
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In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To … only when the policy instrument is successful in smoothing the growth rate of human capital. …
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switch to private provision welfare improving for all agents including public employees. …
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Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...
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We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the quality of governance) and the degree of market...
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welfare. International welfare spillovers depend on the interaction between terms of trade effects and financial frictions and …
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We analyze the link between financial development and income inequality for a broad unbalanced dataset of up to 138 developed and developing countries over the years 1960 to 2008. Using credit-to-GDP as a measure of financial development, our results reject theoretical models predicting a...
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lending by nationwide banks and lower GDP growth. We explain these cross-prefectural differences in banking integration by …
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We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries … financial development does not have a linear positive long-run impact on economic growth in this sample. When we consider a non …-linear relationship between financial development and growth, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between finance and growth in the …
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