Effets structurels du développement financier sur la croissance et les inégalités

Boris Cournède and Catherine L. Mann

Revue d'économie financière, 2017, vol. N° 127, issue 3, 21-36

Abstract: The size of the financial sector has massively expanded across OECD countries over the past fifty years. This process has involved deep structural changes including a debt shift away from business towards household credit and, after 2000, a withering in the flow of equity capital that stock markets provide. A series of econometric studies show that these changes have contributed to slowing down potential growth. At the levels of financial development observed in OECD countries, further increases in credit-GDP ratios translate into slower trend growth, especially when lending goes to households, while additional stockmarket funding boosts growth. Moreover, these trends have contributed to widening inequalities. Against this background, there is a case for policymakers to focus on macroprudential policy tools that optimise growth-stability trade-offs. Classification JEL: D14, D63, G1, G2.

JEL-codes: D14 D63 G1 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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