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Financial intermediaries, capital markets, and economic growth: empirical evidence from six countries

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dc.contributor.author Nyasha, Sheilla
dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-02T12:12:01Z
dc.date.available 2016-02-02T12:12:01Z
dc.date.issued 2016-01
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19908
dc.description Working Paper 01/2016 FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES, CAPITAL MARKETS, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SIX COUNTRIES en
dc.description.abstract Abstract This paper investigates the dynamic causal relationship between financial systems and economic growth in three developing countries – South Africa, Brazil and Kenya – and three developed countries – the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Australia – during the period from 1980 to 2012. The study includes both bank-based and market-based financial systems. The study includes savings as an intermittent variable – thereby creating a trivariate Granger-causality model. The method of means-removed average is employed to construct bank- and market-based financial development indices. Using the ARDL bounds testing approach, the empirical results of this study reveal that the causality between financial systems and economic growth is indistinct; and it varies widely across countries and over time. Overall, the study finds that there is a long-run causal flow from bank-based financial development to economic growth in the UK and Australia; a distinct feedback loop in the case of Brazil; and a neutrality relationship in the case of Kenya, South Africa and the USA. For market-based financial development, the study finds evidence of bidirectional causality in the case of Kenya; a demand-following hypothesis in South Africa and Brazil; and a neutrality relationship in the case of Australia and the UK. The study, therefore, repudiates the traditional argument, which contends that the finance-growth nexus follows a supply-leading phenomenon en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Bank-Based Financial Development, Market-Based Financial Development, Stock Market, Banks, Economic Growth, Granger-Causality, USA, UK, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Kenya en
dc.title Financial intermediaries, capital markets, and economic growth: empirical evidence from six countries en
dc.type Working Paper en
dc.description.department Colleges of Economic and Management Sciences en
dc.contributor.author2 Odhiambo, Nicholas M.


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