Are financial development and corruption control substitutes in promoting growth?

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 414-433

  Ahlin, Christian ^a   Pang, Jiaren ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Corruption; Financial development; Growth

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; MODELING;

EID: 42049118761     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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