Economic theory suggests that sound and efficient financial systems - banks, equity markets, and bond markets - which channel capital to its most productive uses are beneficial for economic growth. Sound and efficient financial systems are especially important for sustaining growth in developing...

This chapter examines the direction of causality between financial development and economic growth in 44 developed and developing countries for the period of 1965-2016. Using bank-based indicators, our empirical results provide the evidence of linear Granger-causality running from economic...