Does Banking Regulation Cause Counterproductive Economic Dynamics?

Does FDI Cause Economic Growth

This paper investigates the direction of causal link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth measured in GDP in nineteen developing countries of SouthEast Asia and Latin America using Cointegration technique, Granger causality test and Error Correction Model (ECM). This paper finds that five countries in Latin America and one country in East and South East Asia have long run...

Does financial activity cause economic growth ?

To clarify the causal links between financial activity and economic growth, three theoretical models are analyzed and a structural equation path models is estimated. In the modeling part, poverty traps result from large fixed costs or high proportions of real investment to run a financial sector. Human capital allocated to financial activities will improve long-run levels but may reduce growth ...

Does Banking Competition Affect Innovation?

We exploit the deregulation of interstate bank branching laws to test whether banking competition affects innovation. We find robust evidence that banking competition reduces statelevel innovation by public corporations headquartered within deregulating states. Innovation increases among private firms that are dependent on external finance and that have limited access to credit from local banks...

Government Banking and Economic Growth in Iran

One of the measures taken by the 1979 Revolutionary Government of Iran was to denounce the mixed public-private ownership of the banking system of the pre-revolutionary era and implement a full scale banking nationalization and merging scheme. Since then the banking system has been operating under close supervision and scrutiny of the government - exercising its power to impose a variety of res...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?