This is the supplemental material to the paper titled "Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and The Distribution of Income." It includes additional theoretical and quantitative results. It also includes illustration for the numerical algorithm for our...

A general equilibrium model featuring multiple realistic sources of financial frictions is developed to study how different constraints interact in equilibrium. We highlight, distinguish, and evaluate their differential impacts and rich interactions. The economic impact of financial inclusion...

This paper features a meta-analysis of the effects of financial development and liberalization on macroeconomic growth in Asia. A meta-synthesis of 748 estimates extracted from 75 previous studies indicates that the growthenhancing effect of finance reaches an economically meaningful scale in...

How do you value companies which have IPOed recently? How do you compare them amongst their peers? Valuing companies using a linear extrapolation of their revenues and profits leads to an ingenious method to benchmark stocks against each other. Here we present such a method, dubbed the growth...

This paper studies the economic growth implications of financial innovations that emerge in more sophisticated and complete financial markets. Financial innovations in the form of new financial instruments, services, institutions, technologies, and markets mobilise financial surpluses from...

Based on a survey of 54 published articles, we undertake a meta-analysis of 906 estimates of the effects of financial liberalization on economic growth. We conclude that the literature contains statistically significant evidence of a positive effect of financial liberalization on economic...

The cross-country empirical literature on the finance-growth relationship has debated three propositions. These are (i) Financial deepening has a strong impact on the growth process (ii) Measures of financial “activity” rather than the “size” of the sector plays a more significant role...