Creditor protection and banking system development in India

Simon Deakin, Panicos Demetriades and Gregory James ()

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 1, 19-21

Abstract: We use cointegration analysis of a new longitudinal legal dataset to show that strengthening creditor rights in India during the 1990s and 2000s led to an increase in bank credit, supporting the view that legal systems can shape financial development.

Keywords: Creditor; rights; Legal; origin; Banking; development; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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