{"title":"Convergence in Financial Development and Growth","authors":"Zhiheng He, Yang You","doi":"10.1007/s11079-024-09767-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We evaluate the cross-country convergence of financial development and its relationship with GDP growth. Financial inclusion variables have been widely converged across countries, and the catch-up effect of countries with poor financial coverage mainly drives the convergence. In contrast, financial development measures — including domestic credit, liability, mutual fund size, and stock market capitalization — have diverged since 1985 despite the absolute convergence in GDP and financial inclusion. The GDP growth rates strongly correlate with the change in financial development but not the improvement in financial inclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":46980,"journal":{"name":"Open Economies Review","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Open Economies Review","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-024-09767-4","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We evaluate the cross-country convergence of financial development and its relationship with GDP growth. Financial inclusion variables have been widely converged across countries, and the catch-up effect of countries with poor financial coverage mainly drives the convergence. In contrast, financial development measures — including domestic credit, liability, mutual fund size, and stock market capitalization — have diverged since 1985 despite the absolute convergence in GDP and financial inclusion. The GDP growth rates strongly correlate with the change in financial development but not the improvement in financial inclusion.
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The topics covered in Open Economies Review include, but are not limited to, models and applications of (1) trade flows, (2) commercial policy, (3) adjustment mechanism to external imbalances, (4) exchange rate movements, (5) alternative monetary regimes, (6) real and financial integration, (7) monetary union, (8) economic development and (9) external debt. Open Economies Review welcomes original manuscripts, both theoretical and empirical, dealing with international economic issues or national economic issues that have transnational relevance. Furthermore, Open Economies Review solicits contributions bearing on specific events on important branches of the literature. Open Economies Review is open to any and all contributions, without preferences for any particular viewpoint or school of thought. Open Economies Review encourages interdisciplinary communication and interaction among researchers in the vast area of international and transnational economics. Authors will be expected to meet the scientific standards prevailing in their respective fields, and empirical findings must be reproducible. Regardless of degree of complexity and specificity, authors are expected to write an introduction, setting forth the nature of their research and the significance of their findings, in a manner accessible to researchers in other disciplines. Officially cited as: Open Econ Rev
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