Financial Dependence, Banking Sector Competition, and Economic Growth

The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper the authors first estimate for 16 countries a measure of...

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Main Authors: Claessens, Stijn, Laeven, Luc
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5588129/financial-dependence-banking-sector-competition-economic-growth
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8906