Regional evidence on financial development, finance term structure and growth

Empirical Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 185-201

  Vaona, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross section analysis; Finance term structure; Finance growth nexus; Panel data analysis; Regions

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; CREDIT PROVISION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; PANEL DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38849154455     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0153-2     Document Type: Article

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