Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

Although research shows that financial development accelerates aggregate economic growth, economists have not resolved conflicting theoretical predictions and ongoing policy disputes about the cross-firm distributional effects of financial development. Using cross-industry, cross-country data, the r...

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Main Authors: Beck, Thorsten, Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Laeven, Luc, Levine, Ross
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5299
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spelling okr-10986-52992021-04-23T14:02:21Z Finance, Firm Size, and Growth Beck, Thorsten Demirguc-Kunt, Asli Laeven, Luc Levine, Ross Financing Policy Financial Risk and Risk Management Capital and Ownership Structure G320 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 Measurement of Economic Growth Aggregate Productivity Cross-Country Output Convergence O470 Although research shows that financial development accelerates aggregate economic growth, economists have not resolved conflicting theoretical predictions and ongoing policy disputes about the cross-firm distributional effects of financial development. Using cross-industry, cross-country data, the results are consistent with the view that financial development exerts a disproportionately positive effect on small firms. These results have implications for understanding the political economy of financial sector reform. 2012-03-30T07:32:11Z 2012-03-30T07:32:11Z 2008 Journal Article Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 00222879 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5299 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic Financing Policy
Financial Risk and Risk Management
Capital and Ownership Structure G320
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250
Measurement of Economic Growth
Aggregate Productivity
Cross-Country Output Convergence O470
spellingShingle Financing Policy
Financial Risk and Risk Management
Capital and Ownership Structure G320
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250
Measurement of Economic Growth
Aggregate Productivity
Cross-Country Output Convergence O470
Beck, Thorsten
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
Laeven, Luc
Levine, Ross
Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
relation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
description Although research shows that financial development accelerates aggregate economic growth, economists have not resolved conflicting theoretical predictions and ongoing policy disputes about the cross-firm distributional effects of financial development. Using cross-industry, cross-country data, the results are consistent with the view that financial development exerts a disproportionately positive effect on small firms. These results have implications for understanding the political economy of financial sector reform.
format Journal Article
author Beck, Thorsten
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
Laeven, Luc
Levine, Ross
author_facet Beck, Thorsten
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
Laeven, Luc
Levine, Ross
author_sort Beck, Thorsten
title Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
title_short Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
title_full Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
title_fullStr Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
title_full_unstemmed Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
title_sort finance, firm size, and growth
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5299
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