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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 …

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Ist eine höhere bauliche Dichte wünschenswert? Evidenz aus den Preisen von Einfamilienhäusern im Kanton Zürich

Salvi, Marco - EconWPA - 2003

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Housing Prices, Bank Lending, and Monetary Policy

Greef, Irene de; Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002

In order to gain more insight into the relationship between housing prices and mortgage lending, we estimate models for both the Dutch housing and the mortgage market. The empirical analysis presented in this paper offers support for the hypothesis that in the Netherlands housing prices and...

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Financial Development, Labor and Market Regulations and Growth

FONSECA, Raquel; GONZALEZ, Natalia UTRERO- - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the importance that market regulation and financial imperfections have on …rm growth. We analyse institutions affecting labor market as Employment Protection Laws (EP) and Product Market Regulation (PM). We show that together with the beneficial effects of …nancial...

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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...

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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....

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'The role of Financial Liberalization in Development: Weaknesses and Corrections'

Saidane, D. - EconWPA - 2005

During the 80’s and 90’s, the increase in financial instability shook up the idyllic vision of the financial liberalization in developed nations. The difficulties borne by the banking sectors spread out in some Asian and Latin American countries as systemic crises. The deregulation of the...

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WHY DO COUNTRIES DEVELOP MORE FINANCIALLY THAN OTHERS? THE ROLE OF THE CENTRAL BANK AND BANKING SUPERVISION

Sáez, Lucía Cuadro; Herrero, Sonsoles Gallego; … - EconWPA - 2003

We construct a new measure of financial development, through multivariate analysis, which includes several indicators of financial size and efficiency for 134 countries. Based on this broad measure, we assess empirically the determinants of financial development focusing on two factors not yet...

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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...

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LATIN AMERICAN FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN PERSPECTIVE

Herrero, Alicia García; Fraile, Javier Santillan; … - EconWPA - 2003

This paper assesses financial sector development in Latin America, both in the banking system and in the capital markets. After a brief review of the explanatory factors and the definitions of financial development found in the literature, Latin American countries are classified in groups of...

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