Does Insurance Development Affect the Financial Markets in developing countries?

Relwendé Sawadogo and Samuel Guerineau ()
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Samuel Guerineau: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)

No 201520, Working Papers from CERDI

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of insurance premiums on stock market development in 37 developing countries over the period 1987-2011. By controlling for the potential endogeneity bias, using the System GMM estimator, we show that the insurance premiums significantly increase the stock market total value traded. This result is robust to the use of alternative measure of stock market development and control of the political and legal system quality. In addition, the results highlight that an improvement in property rights promotes the deepening of the financial market. Thus, the results argue for insurance policies promoting and an improvement of the legal environment to benefit from the financial market development.

Keywords: Stock market; Insurance Premiums; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G10 G22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2015-06
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Published in International Finance and Banking, 2016, pages 136-146
Published in International Finance and Banking

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