Inflation and the finance-growth nexus

Ho-Chuan Huang (), Shu-Chin Lin, Dong-Hyeon Kim and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Economic Modelling, 2010, vol. 27, issue 1, 229-236

Abstract: This paper re-investigates whether there exist inflation thresholds in the finance-growth linkage. By applying the Caner and Hansen's (2004) instrumental-variable threshold regression approach to the dataset of Levine et al. (2000), we find strong evidence of a nonlinear inflation threshold in the relationship, below which financial development exerts a significantly positive effect on economic growth, while, above which, the growth effect of finance appears to be insignificant. Furthermore, we also find a positive and significant relationship between finance and productivity for inflation rates below the threshold level, but no such relationship is detected for inflation rates above the critical level. This result suggests that finance influences growth mainly through the productivity channel.

Keywords: Financial; development; Economic; growth; Threshold; regression; Instrumental; variable; Inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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