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Patterns of industrial development revisted : the role of finance, Volume 1

Author:	Fisman, Raymond; Love, Inessa;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 2877
Date Stored:	2002/09/24	Document Date:	2002/08/31
Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper	Language:	English
Major Sector:	Finance	Report Number:	WPS2877
Sub Sectors:	Capital markets	SubTopics:	Achieving Shared Growth; Governance Indicators; Payment Systems & Infrastructure; Economic Theory & Research; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Economic Conditions and Volatility; Economic Growth; Public Health Promotion
Volume No:	1

Summary: The authors reexamine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. First, they characterize the assumptions underlying previous work in this area, in particular, that of Rajan and Zingales (1998). The authors argue that Rajan and Zingales (1998) implicitly test whether financial intermediaries allow firms to better respond to global shocks to growth opportunities. Second, the authors propose a more efficient alternative test of this hypothesis using statistical techniques developed in the social networks literature. Specifically, they find that countries have more highly correlated growth rates across sectors when they have well-developed financial markets, suggesting that financial markets play an important role in allowing firms to take advantage of global growth opportunities. These results are particularly strong when financial development takes into account both the level and composition of financial development: private banking appears to play a particularly important role in resource allocation. The authors' technique allows them to further distinguish between the "growth opportunities" hypothesis stated above and the alternative "finance and external dependence" hypothesis, which implies that countries with similar levels of financial development should specialize in similar sectors. They do not find evidence to support this alternative view of finance and development.


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