This paper analyses the relationship between financial development (as measured by expansion of domestic credit to private sector relative to GDP) and growth for a sample of 65 less developed countries over a long period, 1980-2006. Using causality tests at various lag-orders we find a strong...

The present study analyses the relationship between financial development and growth for a sample of 28 less developed countries covering 1997-2019. In view of the cross-country correlation and country heterogeneity in the data, it uses CS-ARDL approach to fit Mean Group and Pooled Mean Group...