 How Robust is the Relationship between Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth?Hart HODGES and Shawn D. KNABB Applied Econometrics and International Development, 2010, vol. 10, issue 1 Abstract: The question of whether financial intermediation has a first order effect on the development process has long been debated. There have also been questions about the ‘robustness’ of the empirical results that suggest financial development does indeed have a first order effect. This paper addresses the second issue within this debate by assessing the robustness of the link between financial development and economic growth to variations in the sample (countries included in the data set). Specifically, the procedure identifies the relative influence of ordered subsets in the data to determine whether or not these financial variables change sign or lose statistical significance after the removal a specific subset. The results of this exercise suggest that financial intermediation appears to have a first order effect, that is most of the variables are robust to variations in the sample, using a traditional cross-country growth regression framework and an instrumental variables framework (GMM). Keywords: Financial Development; Economic Growth; Sensitivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eaa:aeinde:v:10:y:2010:i:1_3 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article More articles in Applied Econometrics and International Development from Euro-American Association of Economic Development |
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