Financial Development, Financial Fragility, and Growth /

This paper studies the apparent contradictions between two strands of the literature on the effects of financial intermediation on economic activity. On the one hand, the empirical growth literature finds a positive effect of financial depth as measured by, for instance, private domestic credit and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loayza, Norman
Other Authors: Ranciere, Romain
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/170
Online Access:Full text available on IMF