This paper explores the long-run effects of inflation on the dynamics of private sector bank credit and economic growth in Mexico over the period 1969-2011. With an ARDL-type model, the statistical results suggest that the availability of private sector bank credit in the economy exerts a...

The literature on finance and economic growth establishes that a deregulated financial system increases economic growth in the long run. Mexican financial institutions have endured through two great stages: regulation until 1988 and liberalization after this date until today. Under this...