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Finance, firm size, and growth

Author:	Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3485
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2005/02/07
Document Date:	2005/01/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS3485	SubTopics:	Governance Indicators; Achieving Shared Growth; Water and Industry; Economic Theory & Research; Banks & Banking Reform; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Small and Medium Size Enterprises; Public Health Promotion
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: The authors examine whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. They define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size implied by industrial specific production technologies, including capital intensities and scale economies. Using cross-industry, cross-country data, the results indicate that financial development exerts a disproportionately large effect on the growth of industries that are technologically more dependent on small firms. This suggests that financial development accelerates economic growth by removing growth constraints on small firms and also implies that financial development has sectoral as well as aggregate growth ramifications.


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