The finance-growth nexus: evidence from bank branch deregulation

Jith Jayaratne and Philip E. Strahan

No 9513, Research Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: This paper provides evidence that financial markets can directly affect economic growth by studying the relaxation of bank branch restrictions in the United States over the past 25 years. We find that the rates of real, per-capita growth in income and output increase significantly following intrastate branch reform. We also argue that the observed changes in growth reflect causality flowing from financial sector reform to improved growth performance. This argument is supported by evidence from the process of branching deregulation, from the timing of such policy changes, and from bank lending following branch reform. Moreover, the particular financial sector policy experiment studied here leads to faster growth by improving the quality of bank lending.

Keywords: Bank supervision; Banking law; Branch banks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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