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Stock Markets, Banks and Long Run Economics Growth: A Panel Cointegration-Based Analysis

Cavenaile, Laurent; Gengenbach, Christian; Palm, Franz - CESifo - 2013

the direction of potential causality between financial and economic development. Our results conclude to the existence of … a single cointegrating vector between financial development and growth and of causality going from financial development … to economic growth. We find little evidence of reverse causation as well as bi-directional causality. We interpret this …

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The Political Economy of Financial Systems: Evidence from Suffrage Reforms in the Last Two Centuries

Degryse, Hans; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - CESifo - 2013

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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Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa

Andrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, Panicos - CESifo - 2014

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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Innovation, Trade, and Finance

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2011

This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...

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Financial Development and Income Inequality: A Panel Data Approach

Jauch, Sebastian; Watzka, Sebastian - CESifo - 2011

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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'By a Silken Thread': Regional Banking Integration and Pathways to Financial Development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - CESifo - 2013

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...

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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries

Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - CESifo - 2014

We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...

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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms

Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the 2000-2006 period....

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Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?

Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2010

Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...

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The Volatility Curse: Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty

Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2009

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. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

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