Regional evidence on financial development, finance term structure and growth

Andrea Vaona

A chapter in Spatial Econometrics, 2009, pp 185-201 from Springer

Abstract: The finance-growth nexus is a classic source of debate among economists. This paper offers regional evidence on this issue in order to determine whether it can fit the data on a 147-year-old economic union,Italy. By means of this approach the pooling of developed and developing countries in the same sample can be avoided. Both cross-sectional and panel data estimates appear to show that more finance generates more growth. Endogeneity does not bias the results to a significant extent, and the finance-growth nexus is robust to spatial unobserved heterogeneity. Spatial correlation in the residuals is rejected by the data. Economic growth appears to be favoured more by short-term than by long-term credit.

Keywords: Finance-growth nexus; Regions; Finance term structure; Cross-section analysis; Panel data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2070-6_10

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