A dynamic two-sector model for analyzing the interrelation between financial development and industrial growth

Motivated by Feder’s two-sector model concerning exports and growth, this article intends to propose a dynamic framework, which bases on the production function theory and consists of two versions of the two-sector (the financial sector and the real sector) model, for analyzing the interrelation between financial development and economic growth in terms of intersectoral externalities. The approach is applied as a prototype to the case of financial liberalization and industrial growth in Taiwan using deflated annual data for 1961–1996. Growth equations are derived and the externality series are estimated. Regressions incorporating the economic/ financial variables as well as a linear spline in time variable are set up for testing the externality series. The results show that the financial-supply-leading version is more prevailing in the studied case. The externality series of the supply-leading version are highly related to the financial variables, while those of the demand-following version are related to real variables that affect the industrial production.  2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: O16; O53