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Governments in developing economies often resort to taxing bank money balances through imposition of high reserve requirements and also by relying on seigniorage to finance their deficits. In the context of those practices, this research reported in this paper attempts to answer the following...
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Most empirical analysis of the finance-growth nexus has used measures of financial development such as the ratio of … which have dogged the empirical growth literature. We develop such a measure by combining the ‘Delphi’ method and principal …
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changes in output, while financial development makes investment more responsive to output growth. Consequently, rather than …
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Research in development economics reveals that the bulk of cross-country differences in economic growth is attributable … to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of countries’ growth … progress, rates of real cost reduction and rates of productivity growth. I find that the effect of financial development on …
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Results support Arestis’s theory, that low real interest rates do not prevent economic growth (though he related it to … and Kelly’s view that financial liberalisation supports growth. Finally King and Levine studies are supported -- banking … sector development leads to faster growth, and also Barth’s view that state involvement leads to poorly developed banks. …
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Research in development economics reveals that the bulk of cross-country differences in economic growth is attributable … to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of countries’ growth … progress, rates of real cost reduction and rates of productivity growth. I find that the effect of financial development on …
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This paper examines the relationship between capital controls and financial development, with an emphasis on the empirical aspects of the linkage. Financial development is interpreted broadly as increasing the efficiency of allocating financial resources and monitoring capital projects. In...
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between economic growth, institutional quality and financial … unidirectional positive relationship from economic growth to financial development. Second, institutional quality and economic growth … institutional quality has an impact on economic growth while the latter causes an improvement in public sector institutional quality …
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their families, although it also increases the volatility of remittances. [resumen de autor] …
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Financial development has been argued as a potential source of comparative advantage and its relationships with trade has been theoretically developed. This theory posits that countries that are well financially developed should experience greater volumes of international trade. We empirically...
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