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Finance, law and growth during transition: a survey
Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002
This paper surveys the economic literature on the links between finance, law and growth in the Central and Eastern European transition countries. The literature that is surveyed at the outset of the paper shows that if a financial system is based on an adequate legal system it can positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125524
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Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: An international analysis of community banking and economic performance
Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Klapper, Leora F. - EconWPA - 2004
We seek to contribute to both the finance-growth literature and the community banking literature by testing the effects of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for these effects using data from 1993–2000 on 49 nations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134638
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Do Stock Markets Promote Economic Growth?
Hanousek, Jan; Campos, Nauro F.; Filer, Randall K. - EconWPA - 2001
One of the most enduring debates in economics is whether financial development causes economic growth or whether it is a consequence of increased economic activity. Little research into this question, however has used a true causality framework. This paper fills this lacuna by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413076
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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Malaysia: The Stock Market Perspective
Choong, Chee Keong; Yusop, Zulkornain; Law, Siong Hook; … - EconWPA - 2003
Understanding the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth is important in enhancing the economy of a nation. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach, this study finds that stock market development is cointegrated with economic growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561265
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Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: An international analysis of community banking and economic performance
Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Klapper, Leora F. - EconWPA - 2004
We seek to contribute to both the finance-growth literature and the community banking literature by testing the effects of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for these effects using data from 1993–2000 on 49 nations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561768
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Do efficient banking sectors accelerate economic growth in transition countries?
Koivu, Tuuli - EconWPA - 2002
The relationship between financial sector and economic growth in transition countries has been largely ignored in the earlier empirical literature. In this paper, we analyse the finance-growth nexus using a fixed-effects panel model and unbalanced panel data from 25 transition countries during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561315
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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118750
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Reconciling the Chinese Financial Development with its Economic
Maswana, Jean-Claude - EconWPA - 2005
Focused on the case of China’s financial development, the present discursive essay sets out to argue that if the … particular context of China’s economic development goals and concludes that although the Chinese financial system is not …. Furthermore, in order to reconcile China’s financial efficiency-growth apparent paradox, the essay supports the view that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407709
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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective
Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003
The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076554