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Linkages Between Financial Variables, Financial Sector Reform and Economic Growth and Efficiency

Johnston, R. B. - 1995

economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …

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What Makes Growth Sustained?

Ostry, Jonathan David - 2008

We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...

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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect

Bruckner, Markus - 2010

This paper examines the effect that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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International Financial Integration and Economic Growth

Sløk, Torsten - 2002

This paper uses new data and new econometric techniques to investigate the impact of international financial integration on economic growth and also to assess whether this relationship depends on the level of economic development, financial development, legal system development, government...

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Do Taxes Matter for Long-Run Growth? : Harberger's Superneutrality Conjecture

Asea, Patrick K. - 1995

Harberger’s superneutrality conjecture contends that, although in theory the mix of direct and indirect taxes affects …

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Nonlinearity between the shadow economy and level of development

Wu, Dong; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019

This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinear relationship between the shadow economy and level of development. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and...

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Growth Dynamics : The Myth of Economic Recovery

Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2005

Using panel data for a large number of countries, we find that economic contractions are not followed by offsetting fast recoveries. Trend output lost is not regained, on average. Wars, crises, and other negative shocks lead to absolute divergence and lower long-run growth, whereas we find...

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Once Again, is Openness Good for Growth?

International Monetary Fund - 2004

Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000) argue that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity...

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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development

Subramanian, Arvind - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for...

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Financial Development, Financial Fragility, and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2005

This paper studies the apparent contradictions between two strands of the literature on the effects of financial intermediation on economic activity. On the one hand, the empirical growth literature finds a positive effect of financial depth as measured by, for instance, private domestic credit...

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