The finance-growth nexus: a regional perspective

Santiago Carbo () and Francisco Rodríguez Fernández ()

No E2004/44, Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces from Centro de Estudios Andaluces

Abstract: Recent cross-country studies suggest that finance and economic growth are significantly related. The characteristics and geographical scope of this relationship has become central to explain differences in economic development. Two concepts are highly relevant in this context. Firstly, financial deepening, that involves the development of traditional and non-traditional financial services in these territories. Secondly, bank dependence, which makes households and firms rely heavily on banks. Employing dynamic causality and panel data techniques on a sample of Spanish banks during 1993-1999 we find that -at a regional level- economic growth predicted financial deepening in this period which suggests that banks locate and distribute new financial products mostly in well developed territories. Regarding bank dependence, bank lending specialization appears to be a key issue in financing firms and households compared to other bank specializations. According to previous studies, lending dependence confer banks a special role in promoting regional economic growth in bank-based financial systems.

Keywords: Banks; financial deepening; bank dependence; regional growth. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cfn, nep-geo and nep-mfd
Date: 2004
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