Financial Development, Property Rights and Growth

Stijn Claessens () and Luc Laeven

No 3295, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This Paper investigates how the legal framework not only affects the amount of external financing available, but also firms? resource allocation among different types of assets. Using a simple model, we show that in a weaker legal environment a firm will get less financing, and thus invest less, but also invest less in intangible assets. Empirically, these two effects appear to be equally important drivers of growth in sectoral value added for a large number of countries and using a number of robustness tests. Using individual firm data, we find further supporting evidence as weaker legal frameworks are associated with relatively more fixed assets, but less long-term financing for a given amount of fixed assets.

Keywords: Economic growth; Intangible assets; Financial development; Property rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G31 G32 O34 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cfn, nep-dev and nep-mfd
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