The paper analyzes whether, and to what extent, emerging market economies (EMEs) have systemic importance for global financial markets, above and beyond their influence during crises episodes. Using a novel database of exogenous economic and political shocks for 14 systematically relevant EMEs,...

In this paper we explore empirically a long-standing question in the literature on finance for growth, namely whether the financial structure ?in terms of the size of the banking system relative to the capital markets? matters for economic growth. We build upon the existing literature by...