Banks, Stock Market Development and Economic Growth in Kenya: An Empirical Investigation

Sheilla Nyasha and Nicholas Odhiambo

Journal of African Business, 2017, vol. 18, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: In this paper, we have examined the impact of both bank- and market-based financial development on economic growth in Kenya during the period 1980 to 2012, using the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. To capture as far as possible the breadth and depth of the Kenyan bank- and market-based financial systems, the study employs the method of means-removed average to construct both bank- and market-based financial development indices from an array of banking sector and stock market variables. The empirical results of this study show that market-based financial development has a positive impact on economic growth in Kenya. However, the results have also shown that bank-based financial development has no impact on economic growth in the study country. These results apply irrespective of whether the regression analysis is conducted in the long run or in the short run. The findings of this study, therefore, lend more support to pro-market-based financial development policies in Kenya.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2016.1216232

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