Inflation, Finance, and Growth: A Trilateral Analysis

Peter Rousseau and Hakan Yilmazkuday

No 916, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers from Vanderbilt University Department of Economics

Abstract: A large body of evidence links financial development to economic growth, yet the channels through which inflation affects this relationship and its stability have been less thoroughly explored. We take an econometric and graphical approach to analyzing these channels, and find that higher levels of financial development, combined with low inflation, are related to higher rates of economic growth, especially in developing countries, but that financial development loses much of its explanatory power in the presence of high inflation. In particular, small increases in the price level seem able to wipe out relatively large efficiency gains achieved through financial deepening when the annual rate of inflation lies between 4 and 19 percent, whereas the operation of the finance-growth link is less affected by higher inflation rates. Growth is generally much lower, however, in such high inflation settings where financial development is typically repressed.

Keywords: Financial development; economic growth; inflation; cross-country analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E44 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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