Capital Freedom, Financial Development and Provincial Economic Growth in China

Bengt Söderlund and Patrik Tingvall

No 234, Ratio Working Papers from The Ratio Institute

Abstract: For more than three decades, China has managed to combine rapid economic growth with a heavily regulated financial sector. The discrepancy between economic and financial development has raised the question of whether China might be an exception to the so-called finance-growth nexus. This study examines the relationship between finance and growth at the provincial level in China using a new set of measures of capital freedom and financial development. The results indicate that capital freedom and financial development are associated with both higher income and growth rates. In particular, we find that the marketization of financial institutions and strengthening of legal and government institutions have a particularly strong impact on income and growth in low-income provinces.

Keywords: Keywords: China; Economic growth; Financial institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 E44 G28 O11 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2014-10-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-gro, nep-mac and nep-tra
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