This paper investigated the long run relationship between financial development and economic growth in South Korea using a four-variable Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model using time series data from 1961 to 2013. Applying unit root tests and co-integration analysis, the study revealed that real...

We assess the relationship between finance and growth over the period 1980-2014. We estimate a cross-country growth regression for 48 countries during 20 periods of 15 years starting in 1980 (to 1995) and ending in 1999 (to 2014). We use OLS and IV estimations and we find that: 1) overall...

The pre-eminence of Islamic finance from the perspective of economic growth has been a long-standing debate. In recent decades, there has been a paradigm shift from interest-based banking to Islamic financial system. This study intends to examine the dynamic interaction of Islamic financial...