This paper examines the dynamic linkages between the foreign exchange and stock markets for five East Asian countries, including Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. While the literature suggests the existence of significant Interactions between the two markets, our empirical...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...

Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...