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This paper quantifies the effects of improving public equity markets on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. I use an open-economy extension of Angeletos (2007), where entrepreneurs face idiosyncratic productivity risk in privately held firms. They can diversify by investing in publicly traded...
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technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties, which are subject to imperfectly correlated shocks …. As in endogenous growth models, technological progress increases the number of varieties, raising average productivity …. In our model, the expansion in the number of varieties provides diversification benefits against variety-specific shocks …
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This study investigates the linkage between portfolio investment and economic growth in 18 developed and 27 developing … level. The results of our analysis show that long-term portfolio investment is positively associated with economic growth in … developing countries. Long-term portfolio investment through non-interest-bearing assets contribute more to economic growth in …
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This article investigates returns and volatility linkages among stock markets, including emerging Asian (e.g., India …, Japan, and Singapore) stock markets. During the sample period, these emerging markets have experienced both rapid growth and … volatility. Finally, the Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model is used to study the transmission dynamics in the presence of …
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growth, may operate through a country’s financial system. Scholars show that resource-abundant economies suffer from lower … financial system’s size due to volatility and the associated high real interest rates. The paper shows empirically that export …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the controversial relationship between financial system development and economic development. Using cointegration and VAR estimations on annual data from Africa, we examine the nature of the relationship between financial development and income. We...
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This paper examines the empirical relation between financial market development, as measured by the stock market, and gross private savings rates in 16 emerging markets over 1982-1993. With data from all 16 countries, there is evidence of a significant positive relation between savings and stock...
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This study aims to identify policies that influence the development of financial institutions as measured across three dimensions: depth, efficiency, and stability. Applying the concept of the financial possibility frontier, developed by Beck & Feyen (2013) and formalized by Barajas et al...
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. The long-held hypothesis that NPLs contribute to economic growth is tested using the Panel Granger causality test. Further …
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