Financial Development and Economic Growth /

This paper examines the empirical relationship between long-run growth and the degree of financial development, proxied by the ratio of bank credit to the private sector as a fraction of GDP. We find that this proxy enters significantly and with a positive sign in growth regressions on a large cross...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guidotti, Pablo
Other Authors: De Gregorio, Jose
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1992.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1992/101
Online Access:Full text available on IMF