We show real effects in the banking sector that emanate from financial reporting transparency in the industrial sector. Prior research documents that transparency improves industrial firms’ access to arm’s-length financing via capital markets. We posit that this diminished reliance on banks increases competition in banks’ product markets, and forces them to offset their lost rents by (i) taking...

I. PREREFORM FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN INDIA AND RATIONALE FOR REFORMS The Indian financial sector today is significantly different from what it used to be a few decades back, in the 1970s and 1980s. The Indian financial system of the pre-reform period essentially catered to the needs of planned development in a mixed-economy framework where the Government sector had a predominant role in economic ac...

It is important to understand the interplay between stock market and real economy to figure out the various channels through which financial markets drive economic growth. In the current study we investigate this relationship for Chinese economy, the fastest growing and largest emerging economy in the world. Using the methodology of unit root testing in the presence of structural breaks and usi...