Institutions, Financial Development and Economic Growth
Abstract
This paper contributes to the literature by examining the impact of rule of law and regulatory quality on economic growth through their impact on the stock market development and banking development. In the study, panel vector autoregressive model is employed for the EU-15 countries over the period of 1996-2012 in order to account the endogenous interrelations among these variables. Estimation results indicate that both indicators of institutions increase banking development as well as stock market development. Additionally, the findings indicate that banking development complements with stock market development. It is found that capital market development increases income per capita whereas banking development decreases income per capita.
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Primary Language
English
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
April 29, 2019
Submission Date
November 21, 2018
Acceptance Date
April 27, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Number: 60