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Savings and financial sector development: Panel cointegration evidence from Africa

Kelly, Roger; Mavrotas, George - 2003

The paper uses different measures of financial sector development for a dynamic heterogeneous panel of 17 African countries to examine the impact of financial sector development on private savings. An innovative econometric methodology is also employed related to a series of cointegration tests...

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Financial sector development - futile or fruitful? An examination of the determinants of savings in Sri Lanka

Kelly, Roger; Mavrotas, George - 2003

Using dynamic econometric techniques the paper investigates the determinants of private saving in Sri Lanka with a primary focus on the role of financial sector development. Empirical evidence is obtained indicating the existence of the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis, and the significance of...

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Financial sector development and growth: The Chinese experience

Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - 2006

This paper documents the financial and institutional developments of China during the past two decades, when China was successfully transformed from a rigid centralplanning economy to a dynamic market economy following its unique path. We empirically examine the relationship between financial...

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The quality of banking and regional growth

Hasan, Iftekhar; Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2007

We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...

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Bank relationships and small firms’ financial performance

Castelli, Annalisa; Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr.; Hasan, Iftekhar - 2006

We examine the relationship between the number of bank relationships and firms’ performance, evaluating possible … listed and for which bank debt is a major source of financing. In the sample, 4 percent of the firms have a single bank … as the number of bank relationships increases, with a stronger relationship for small firms than for large firms. We also …

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