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Existing literature highlights opportunistic behavior as the main reason why rational agents underinvest in relationship-specific assets (the hold-up problem). However, a supplier would also be reluctant to undertake relationship-specific investment if she cannot observe financial stability or...
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An influential strand of literature starting with the Nobel Prize winning work of Oliver Williamson (1971, 1975) argues that a rational agent underinvests in relationship-specific assets due to the possibility of an opportunistic behaviour on the part of her contractual partner. We first combine...
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and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …
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and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …
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and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …
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claim that finance promotes real economy via managing risk and decreasing transaction costs. Furthermore, the pro-growth e …
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intermediation to economic growth, and offers a theoretical explanation for these effects. Using GMM dynamic panel data techniques … applied to study the growth-promoting effects of financial intermediation, we show that the exogenous contribution of … financial development on economic growth has different effects for different levels of income per capita. We find that this …
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growth in Taiwan. We find that the breakpoint obtained by Gregory and Hansen (1996) appears in the third quarter of 1982 … turned positive after financial openness, suggesting that appropriate volatility enhances Taiwan's economic growth under the … excess liquidity that impeded economic growth. Our long-run results are essentially the same even if we take the role of the …
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A new data set from the transition economies shows that the private sector has increasing access to long-term bank financing. In several transition countries credit has similar maturity structure to that in Western Europe, while in other transition countries credit remains mostly short-term....
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During the last years the relationship between financial development and economic growth has received widespread … attention in the literature on growth and development. This paper summarises in its first part the results of this research …, stressing the growth-enhancing effects of an increased interpersonal re-allocation of resources promoted by financial …
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