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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 - 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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Financial devlopment, environmental quality, trade and economic growth : what causes what in MENA countries?
Omri, Anis; Daly, Saida; Rault, Christophe; Chaibi, Anissa - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the period 1990 - 2011. Our results indicate that there is evidence of bidirectional causality between...
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Quest for the general effect size of finance on growth : a large meta-analysis of worldwide studies
Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen - 2023
growth on a world scale. For that, we perform by far the largest available meta-analysis of the finance-growth nexus using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422579
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The nexus between economic freedom and economic growth in the LDCs : an empirical analysis for the period 2000-2021
Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2023
Economic freedom and economic growth can be connected in most countries, but it is often necessary to specify those aspects of economic freedom that can foster economic growth. This paper examines the nexus between economic freedom and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)...
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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
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Nature, power, and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and …
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Natural resources and economic growth : what is the connection?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2001
This paper reviews the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and stresses how natural capital tends to crowd out foreign capital, social capital, human capital, andphysical capital, thereby impeding economic growth across countries and presumably also over time....
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...
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Stock markets, banks and long run economics growth : a panel cointegration-based analysis
Cavenaile, Laurent; Gengenbach, Christian; Palm, Franz C. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...
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