Is the financial development and economic growth relationship nonlinear?

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Ketteni, Elena ^a   Mamuneas, Theofanis ^a   Savvides, Andreas ^b   Stengos, Thanasis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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