This paper presents an endogenous growth model in which there is an explicit treatment of the informational asymmetries giving rise to finance constraints in the credit market.

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

Macroprudential policy mainly aims to enhance financial stability and reduce the possibility of costly financial crises. However, to achieve this, macroprudential policy decisions may have some unintended side effects on economic growth. The paper provides an empirical framework for...

To control for the endogeneity problem, this study applies the two-stage least squares technique to examine the impact of bank and stock market development on economic growth in the thirteen Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the European Union (EU) during 2001-2020. The first...

The growth effects of international financial liberalization and integration are investigated using the methodology and data developed by Rajan and Zingales (1998). The main result is that industries highly dependent on external financing do not experience higher growth in value added in...

The growth effects of international financial liberalization and integration are investigated using the methodology and data developed by Rajan and Zingales (1998). The main result is that industries highly dependent on external financing do not experience higher growth in value added in...

Since the 1990s economists have devoted considerable attention to the study of the relationship between financial markets development and economic growth. In particular, the emergence of stock markets with economic development is an intriguing and interesting aspect of such a relationship, and...

The study employs the Granger causality test in a multivariate cointegration and error correction environment to examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Zimbabwe. Using annual data from 1980 to 2012, and after controlling for financial and monetary reforms,...

This paper argues that the effect of a financial stimulus on growth can vary along quantiles of the conditional growth distribution. We support this argument by presenting a theoretical finance–growth model, mainly inspired by Pagano (1993) and Canarella and Pollard (2004), where quantile...