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This paper examines how financial development affects the sources of growth-productivity and investment-using a sample of 145 countries for the period 1960-2011. We employ a range of econometric approaches, focusing on the CCA and MENA countries. The analysis looks beyond financial depth to...
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International comparisons reveal that - even controlling for a host of explanatory factors - credit depth is … exceptionally low in Mexico. Using panel data methods linking credit growth and fundamentals, this paper estimates a long-term gap … between actual and expected credit of about 40 percent of GDP. Possible explanations include the history of banking crises …
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credit growth supports GDP growth while saving is irrelevant for credit growth and GDP growth. In sum, a correct … misrepresentation of the role of banks and liquidity creation and the role of household saving. After a critical discussion of the …
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credit growth supports GDP growth while saving is irrelevant for credit growth and GDP growth. In sum, a correct … misrepresentation of the role of banks and liquidity creation and the role of household saving. After a critical discussion of the …
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, it is found that flow of credit to the private sector is very low in this region of the world. Thus, one of the important …
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This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the non-trivial relationship between financial development and economic growth. Based on panel data from 98 developed and developing countries, we show that for smooth economic development, balanced growth of both the industrial and financial...
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In this paper we examined the impact of the liberalization of financial sector on growth in small open economy of Ghana using time series data from 1970 to 2007. Using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modelling approach we find long-run positive and significant impact of financial...
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Existing literature sees opportunistic behaviour of contractual partners as the main reason why rational agents underinvest in relationship-specific assets. We look beyond this well-know holdup problem and argue that financial vulnerability and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such...
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An influential strand of literature starting with the Nobel Prize winning work of Oliver Williamson (1971, 1975) argues that a rational agent underinvests in relationship-specific assets due to the possibility of an opportunistic behaviour on the part of her contractual partner. We first combine...
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country's own macroeconomic fundamentals. SMEs, in particular, remain severely credit constrained, and data to inform better …
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