Is the Relationship Between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle-Income Countries

World Development

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-81

  Samargandi, Nahla ^a,b   Fidrmuc, Jan ^a,c,d   Ghosh, Sugata ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel threshold; Economic growth; Financial development; Non monotonicity; Pooled mean group estimation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INCOME DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84937115740     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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