Land Distribution and Financial System Development /

Research on credit markets from developing economies, as well as work on the origin of institutions in general, has suggested that land inequality may play a role in determining financial development. In this paper we establish empirically that initial land inequality is a significant predictor of f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vollrath, Dietrich
Other Authors: Erickson, Lennart
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/083
Online Access:Full text available on IMF