Quantifying the impact of financial development on economic development

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 194-215

  Greenwood, Jeremy ^a   Sanchez, Juan M ^b   Wang, Cheng ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costly state verification; Cross country differences in financial sector productivity; Cross country output differences; Cross country TFP differences; Economic development; Financial intermediation; Firm size distributions; Interest rate spreads

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871925113     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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