Benchmarking Financial Systems around the World
This paper introduces the Global Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010. The database includes measures of (a) size of financial institutions and markets (financi...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16669897/benchmarking-financial-systems-around-world http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12031 |
| Summary: | This paper introduces the Global
Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of
financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960
to 2010. The database includes measures of (a) size of
financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (b)
degree to which individuals can and do use financial
services (access), (c) efficiency of financial
intermediaries and markets in intermediating resources and
facilitating financial transactions (efficiency), and (d)
stability of financial institutions and markets (stability).
The authors document cross-country differences and time
series trends. |
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