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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...
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Bank-Based or Market-Based Financial Systems : Which is Better?
Levine, Ross - 2008
For over a century, economists and policy makers have debated the relative merits of bank-based versus market …-based financial systems. Recent research, however, argues that classifying countries as bank-based or market is not a very fruitful … robustly linked with economic growth, there is no support for either the bank-based or market-based view …
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Finance and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Levine, Ross - 2004
This paper reviews, appraises, and critiques theoretical and empirical research on the connections between the operation of the financial system and economic growth. While subject to ample qualifications and countervailing views, the preponderance of evidence suggests that both financial...
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Long Run Growth of Financial Technology
Farboodi, Maryam - 2017
In most sectors, technological progress boosts efficiency. But financial technology and the associated data-intensive trading strategies have been blamed for market inefficiency. A key cause for concern is that better technology might induce traders to extract other's information from order flow...
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Skill Biased Financial Development : Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector
Philippon, Thomas - 2010
Over the past 60 years, the U.S. financial sector has grown from 2.3% to 7.7% of GDP. While the growth in the share of value added has been fairly linear, it hides a dramatic change in the composition of skills and occupations. In the early 1980s, the financial sector started paying higher wages...
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Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund : What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2010
The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...
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The Great Reversals : The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2010
We show that the development of the financial sector does not change monotonically over time. In particular, we find that by most measures, countries were more financially developed in 1913 than in 1980 and only recently have they surpassed their 1913 levels. This pattern is inconsistent with...
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Financial Dependence and Growth
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2010
Does finance affect economic growth? A number of studies have identified a positive correlation between the level of development of a country's financial sector and the rate of growth of its per capita income. As has been noted elsewhere, the observed correlation does not necessarily imply a...
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Financial Development and Growth in the Short and Long Run
Fisman, Raymond J.; Love, Inessa - 2021
We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...
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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L.; Sylla, Richard - 2021
This paper brings together two strands of the economic literature -- that on the finance-growth nexus and that on capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country histories and formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of...
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