Finance and the sources of growth

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 261-300

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Levine, Ross ^b   Loayza, Norman ^a,c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CENTRAL BANK OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Capital accumulation; Economic growth; Financial development; G21; O16; O40; Productivity growth; Saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001298529     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-405x(00)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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