Culture and Institutional Changes and Their Impact on Economic and Financial Development Trajectories

Elena Vladimirovna Travkina (), Alim Borisovich Fiapshev (), Marianna Tolevna Belova and Svetlana Evgenievna Dubova
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Elena Vladimirovna Travkina: Department of Banking and Monetary Regulation, Financial University under the Government of the Russia Federation, 125167 Moscow, Russia
Alim Borisovich Fiapshev: Department of Banking and Monetary Regulation, Financial University under the Government of the Russia Federation, 125167 Moscow, Russia
Marianna Tolevna Belova: Department of Banking and Monetary Regulation, Financial University under the Government of the Russia Federation, 125167 Moscow, Russia
Svetlana Evgenievna Dubova: Department of Banking and Monetary Regulation, Financial University under the Government of the Russia Federation, 125167 Moscow, Russia

Economies, 2023, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: The quality of institutions occupies a central place in the set of non-economic factors influencing macroeconomic dynamics and the development of financial markets. This quality is largely shaped by objective factors that accompany the historical process. Therefore, this study focuses on the driving forces of this process and how they affect the quality of institutions. It is shown that the main such force or source of institutional change is culture, interpreted in a broad sense, which includes not only that accumulated at different stages of the historical process relevant heritage, but also behavioral attitudes and value beliefs prevailing in society that affect decision-making. The thesis about the importance of culture as a source of formation of the quality of national institutions and a factor of sustainable economic dynamics is substantiated through the example of specific historical events. Underestimation of this conditionality often prioritizes economic policy goals of financial development without due consideration and assessment of institutional constraints. This factor in macroeconomic decision-making is mainly characteristic of emerging market economies. At the same time, the results of research in recent decades indicate that the impact of financial development on macroeconomic dynamics is positive and strong in conditions of high-quality institutions. This allows the article to assess the role of finance and the quality of institutions differently in the set of state economic policy priorities. As applied to individual countries with obvious deficiencies in the institutional environment, this study, referring to historical experience and modern empirical material, puts forward and substantiates the thesis that ensures a high quality of institutions is the most important priority of transforming financial development into a factor of positive and sustainable economic growth.

Keywords: quality of institutions; institutional changes; culture; economic growth; financial development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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