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Upping our Game : How Canada’s Financial Sector Can Spur Economic Performance
Kronick, Jeremy; Omran, Farah - 2022
regulatory and policy changes needed to boost Canada’s overall and financial services productivity. We look at specific …
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Information Disclosure, Finance and Growth. Evidence from an Unbanked Industry in the US
Bhue, Gursharan - 2016
This paper uses a unique setting of an unbanked industry with high information costs to study the impact of information dissemination by the government on the future growth. Specifically, the paper studies the US Marijuana industry. Marijuana is considered an illegal drug by Federal law and...
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Regulation of Financial Systems and Economic Growth
de Serres, Alain; Kobayakawa, Shuji; Sløk, Torsten; … - 2006
banking services and financial instruments. The regulatory indicators are assembled from surveys conducted by the World Bank …
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The Great Reversals : The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century
Rajan, Raghuram - 2000
We attempt to identify and explain the broad patterns of financial development in developed countries over the twentieth century. We find that, contrary to the predictions of most existing theories, indicators of financial development do not seem monotonic over time. In particular, we find that...
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Asian Financial System : Development and Challenges
Park, Cyn-Young - 2012
highly bank-dominated local financial systems, financial infrastructures anemic in proper legal and regulatory frameworks …
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The effect of banks' financial position on credit growth : evidence from OECD countries
Rappoport, David E. - 2016
This paper presents empirical evidence on the effect of banks' financial position on credit growth using a sample of 29 OECD countries. The failure of the exogeneity assumption of explanatory variables is addressed using dynamic panel type instruments. The empirical results show that among...
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Bank ownership around the world
Panizza, Ugo - 2023
This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …
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Linking bank competition, financial stability, and economic growth
Ijaz, Shahzad; Hassan, Arshad; Tarazi, Amine; Fraz, Ahmad - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 1, pp. 200-221
This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel …-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability … effect of economic growth, and reverse causality in its estimation. Results show that bank stability significantly …
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Staatliche Banken können schwache Bankenregulierung kompensieren
Shortland, Anja - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 37, pp. 11-15
Staatliche Banken können eine wichtige Rolle bei der Sicherung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Finanzsystemen und für die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung spielen. Dies gilt offenbar vor allem dann, wenn die Bankenregulierung schwach ist und Banken nicht ausreichend überwacht werden. Die...
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Is government ownership of banks really harmful to growth?
Andrianova, Svetlana; Demetriades, Panicos O.; … - 2010
We show that previous results suggesting that government ownership of banks is associated with lower long run growth rates are not robust to adding more 'fundamental' determinants of economic growth. We also present new cross-country evidence for 1995-2007 which suggests that, if anything,...
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