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A new database on financial development and structure, Volume 1

Author:	Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2146
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	1999/09/10
Document Date:	1999/07/31	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	Finance
Region:	The World Region	Report Number:	WPS2146
Sub Sectors:	Financial Sector Development	SubTopics:	Governance Indicators; Economic Theory & Research; Banks & Banking Reform; Financial Economics; Financial Intermediation
Volume No:	1	Related Dataset:	Financial Development and Structure Dataset (updated April 2013);

Summary: The authors introduce a new database of indicators of financial development and structure across countries and over time. This database is unique in that it unites a variety of indicators that measure the size, activity, and efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets. It improves on previous efforts by presenting data on the public share of commercial banks, by introducing indicators of the size and activity of non bank financial institutions, and by presenting measures of the size of bond and primary equity markets. The compiled data permit the construction of financial structure indicators to measure whether, for example, a country's banks are larger, more active, and more efficient than its stock markets. These indicators can then be used to investigate the empirical link between the legal, regulatory, and policy environment and indicators of financial structure. They can also be used to analyze the implications of financial structure for economic growth. The authors describe the sources and construction of, and the intuition behind, different indicators and present descriptive statistics.


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