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...

This paper seeks to answer the question: does the stock market work? Is there any link between stock market development and private corporate capital accumulation? It seeks an answer to these questions on the basis of a time-series analysis of Indian data. Our conclusion is in favour of a...

China is the world's largest investor and greatest contributor to global economic growth by wide margins. The efficiency of its financial system in allocating capital to investment will be important to sustain this growth. This paper shows that China's stock market has a crucial role to play....

Understanding the pattern of stock market volatility is important to investors as well as for investment policy. Volatility is directly associated with risks and returns, higher the volatility the more financial market is unstable. The volatility of the Zimbabwean stock market is modeled using...

This study aims to investigate whether the stock market performance leads to economic growth or vice versa; study also examines short-run and long-run dynamics of the stock market. We use of monthly Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and quarterly Gross Domestic Production (GDP) data for the...

On the heels of literature stressing the importance of developing financial markets to enhance growth, a large number of countries opened stock markets during the 1990s. While it is possible that opening a stock market can facilitate growth, I argue that underlying characteristics are important...

This paper shows that neither the stock markets or commercial banks had a significant impact on the UK's economic growth from 1850 to 1913. These results are based on a new dataset on paid-in capital of securities listed on the UK's stock exchanges, which is analysed using a vector...

This paper shows that, counter to common perception, stock prices in China are strongly linked to firm fundamentals. Since the reforms of the early 2000s, stock prices are as informative about future profits as they are in the US. Although the market is segmented from international equity...

We study trends and drivers of long-run stock market growth in 17 advanced economies. Between 1870 and the 1980s, stock market capitalization grew in line with GDP. But over subsequent decades, an unprecedented expansion saw market cap to GDP ratios triple and remain persistently high. While...

We study the effect of financial markets on "optimal" diversification defined in the spirit of mean-variance efficiency as a pattern of output reallocation across industrial sectors which simultaneously accounts for the sectors' growth, volatility, and correlations. Our findings imply that...