This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...

This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...

This paper explores how market power of agents on the capital market affects economic growth and output fluctuations in an overlapping-generations model with endogenous capital accumulation. Agents interact strategically by anticipating how their savings affect the return on savings in...