The Effectiveness of Law, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in an Economy of Financial Repression: Evidence from China

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 763-777

  Feng Lu, Susan ^a   Yao, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

economic growth; financial development; financial repression; legal system

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL CRISIS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INVESTMENT; LEGAL SYSTEM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 61849137248     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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