Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence

Financial systems around the world have undergone considerable development. This paper analyzes the effect of financial development on economic growth. It replicates the estimation of Beck et al. (2000), one of the pioneering research papers in this field. Then, it tests the sensibility of the resul...

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Author: De la Cruz, Jennifer
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2020
Country:Perú
Institution:PUCP
Repository:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/21976
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/21976
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Financial development
Economic growth
Dynamic panel analysis
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description Financial systems around the world have undergone considerable development. This paper analyzes the effect of financial development on economic growth. It replicates the estimation of Beck et al. (2000), one of the pioneering research papers in this field. Then, it tests the sensibility of the results by expanding the sample of countries (99) and the period (1961–2010). This study contributes to the literature by analyzing differentiated effects when a country’s economic conditions are incorporated. The results show that the positive impact of financial development on economic growth found by Beck et al. (2000) becomes non-significant if financial crises and macroeconomic instability periods are taken into account. However, if income per capita level is considered, the impact becomes positive and significant in high-income countries and decreases in low-income per capita countries. This impact is influenced by each country’s level of education, level of financial deepening, and average inflation rate over the last ten years.
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spelling Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence De la Cruz, Jennifer Financial development Economic growth Dynamic panel analysis Financial systems around the world have undergone considerable development. This paper analyzes the effect of financial development on economic growth. It replicates the estimation of Beck et al. (2000), one of the pioneering research papers in this field. Then, it tests the sensibility of the results by expanding the sample of countries (99) and the period (1961–2010). This study contributes to the literature by analyzing differentiated effects when a country’s economic conditions are incorporated. The results show that the positive impact of financial development on economic growth found by Beck et al. (2000) becomes non-significant if financial crises and macroeconomic instability periods are taken into account. However, if income per capita level is considered, the impact becomes positive and significant in high-income countries and decreases in low-income per capita countries. This impact is influenced by each country’s level of education, level of financial deepening, and average inflation rate over the last ten years. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/21976
spellingShingle Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
De la Cruz, Jennifer
Financial development
Economic growth
Dynamic panel analysis
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title Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
title_full Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
title_fullStr Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
title_full_unstemmed Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
title_short Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
title_sort Financial Development and Economic Growth: New Evidence
topic Financial development
Economic growth
Dynamic panel analysis
topic_facet Financial development
Economic growth
Dynamic panel analysis
url http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/21976