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Insurance Activity and Economic Growth Nexus in 31 Regions of China: Bootstrap Panel Causality Test

HU, Hongbing; SU, Meng; LEE, Wenhua - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2013) 3, pp. 182-198

activity and economic growth using data from 31 regions of China over the period 1997-2011. Empirical results indicate that the … running from economic growth to insurance activity in 7 regions. Regarding the direction of insurance activity to economic … growth nexus, we find a one-way Granger causality from insurance activity to economic growth for Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and …

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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries

Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - CESifo - 2014

-linear relationship between financial development and growth, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between finance and growth in the …We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries … financial development does not have a linear positive long-run impact on economic growth in this sample. When we consider a non …

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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters

Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth, whereas aid extended to countries that are not allies is highly …

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Second-tier Government Banks and Access to Credit: Micro-Evidence from Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

that hinder the establishment and growth of promising businesses, and as a result, stifle economic development more …

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Methodological Alternatives for the Analysis of Financial Constraints in Argentina

Elosegui, Pedro; Español, Paula; Panigo, Demian; … - Banco Central de la República Argentina - 2006

implications in terms of investment, economic growth, inflation and income distribution. Despite its relevance, financial …

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Non-interest income, profitability, and risk in banking industry: A cross-country analysis

Lee, Chien-Chiang; Yang, Shih-Jui; Chang, Chi-Hung - In: The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 27 (2014) C, pp. 48-67

Using bank accounting data for 22 countries in Asia over the period 1995–2009, this article applies the dynamic panel generalized method of moments technique to investigate the impacts of non-interest income on profitability and risk for 967 individual banks. We find that non-interest...

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Does Fiscal Decentralization Increase the Investment Rate? Evidence from Chinese Dynamic Panel Data

He, Qichun; Sun, Meng; Zou, Heng-fu - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2013

rational for provincial officials to raise investment rates to maximize local growth and thereby their chance of promotion …

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The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence

Roodman, David; Morduch, Jonathan - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2013

We replicate and reanalyse the most influential study of microcredit impacts (Pitt and Khandker, 1998). That study was celebrated for showing that microcredit reduces poverty, a much hoped-for possibility (though one not confirmed by recent randomized controlled trials). We show that the...

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Intra-industry trade and economic distance : causality tests using panel data

Venet, Baptiste; Peltrault, Frédéric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

In this paper, we implement Granger causalty tests using panel data as methodology perfected by Hurlin (2004, 2005) and Hurlin and Venet(2004). We consider the bilateral trade patterns of the European Union with 17 countries over the period 1976-2000. We show that for the whole sample, there are...

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Financial structure on growth and volatility

Yeh, Chih-Chuan; Huang, Ho-Chuan; Lin, Pei-Chien - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 391-400

finds that financial structure is significantly cointegrated to both economic growth and its volatility. In particular, the … relationship is positive in nature, suggesting that more market-based countries enjoy faster economic growth but suffer more from … of sensitivity checks, including the problem of endogeneity, the use of different financial structure (and growth …

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