Financial Development, Reforms and Growth

Spyridon Boikos, Theodore Panagiotidis and Georgios Voucharas

Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics, University of Macedonia

Abstract: Is there any specific structure of the financial system which promotes economic growth or does this structure depend on the level of economic growth itself? Financial development and financial reforms affect economic growth, but less is known on how this effect varies across different levels of the conditional distribution of the growth rates. We examine this by using panel data for 81 countries for more than 30 years. We account for unobserved heterogeneity and operate within alternative econometric approaches. The findings indicate that financial reforms are important determinants of growth, especially when a country faces relatively low levels of economic growth. Financial development does matter for growth, however, the size and significance of the effect vary. Financial reforms affect economic growth more than financial development. We reveal that the components of financial reforms, which are more important for economic growth, are the supervision of banks and the regulation of securities markets.

Keywords: Financial Development; Financial Reforms; Economic Growth; Quantile Regression; Panel Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 G10 G20 O16 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09, Revised 2022-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-dev and nep-gro
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Journal Article: Financial development, reforms and growth (2022)
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