This study examines the impact of external factors, such as law, regulation, and technology on a country’s rate of economic growth. The results suggest that the technological, legal, and regulatory environment can play a major role towards enhancing the smooth functioning of the financial...

This paper estimates an Odedokun-type supply-leading model of financial sector development (FSD) which incorporates both banking and capital market variables as potential drivers of economic growth. The current findings illustrate the impact on economic growth of various measures of FSD which...

This study sets out to explore the relationships between the banking and night-industry types of nonbanking sectors of the G8 over the years of 1994-2004—before the Kyoto Protocol was enacted in 2005. Our findings show that these relationships are still conditional upon the financial...