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Bank deregulation, competition and economic growth : the US free banking experience

Ager, Philipp; Spargoli, Fabrizio - 2013

removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …

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Small firms, entrepreneurship and economic growth

Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1995

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The influence of exogenous variables on long run parameters : an application to price level and import demand models

Kleibergen, Frank - 1995

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How important are institutions for growth in transition countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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How important are institutions for growth in transition countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...

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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context

Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999

The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...

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Trade in financial services : procompetitive effects and growth performance

Francois, Joseph F.; Schuknecht, Lutger - 1999 - Rev.

In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument that trade, through the fostering offinancial market integration,may yield important long-run effects related to increasedcompetition. The relationshipsformalized here link...

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Measurement error in education and growth regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Finance and growth : a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature

Eschenbach, Felix - 2004

credit markets. After that a period of criticism of free market regimes followed, partly based on unsuccessful policies. The … financial development and economic growth. The evidence suggests, however, enormous heterogeneity across countries, regions …

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